Annual Population Survey - Frequency of speaking Welsh by local authority and year
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Frequency of speaking Welsh, by Welsh local authorityLast update
9 October 2024Next update
To be confirmedPublishing organisation
Welsh GovernmentSource 1
Annual Population Survey, Office for National StatisticsContact email
welshlanguagedata@gov.walesLowest level of geographical disaggregation
Local authoritiesGeographical coverage
WalesLanguages covered
English and WelshData licensing
You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licenceKeywords
Welsh speakers, language, frequencyGeneral description
This dataset provides information on how often people aged 3 or older say that they speak Welsh, by local authority. These percentages sum to the total percentage who report being able to speak Welsh.Frequency of publication
QuarterlyData reference periods
2007 to 2024Rounding applied
Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 and so there may be some apparent slight discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and the totals as shown.Statistical quality
These estimates were previously classed as accredited official statistics. The Annual Population Survey (APS) has seen a fall in sample sizes over recent years. Given this, and the fact that the survey has not been reweighted to latest population estimates, the Office for Statistics Regulation has agreed that this accreditation should be temporarily suspended and that the estimates should be re-designated as official statistics.It is still appropriate to use these statistics, however, please note the increased uncertainty around estimates derived from the APS. Estimates for smaller geographies or population sub-groups, however, are less reliable.
Users should consider trends presented in this release alongside other data on Welsh speakers, such as from the National Survey for Wales. The Welsh Government considers the census of population to be the key source of information to measure the number of Welsh speakers in Wales.
As the data come from a survey, the results are sample-based estimates and therefore subject to differing degrees of sampling variability, i.e. the true value for any measure lies in a differing range about the estimated value. This range or sampling variability increases as the detail in the data increases, for example local authority data are subject to higher variability than regional data.