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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Annual Population Survey - Frequency of speaking Welsh by local authority and year
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[Collapse]Wales16.04.86.11.5
WalesIsle of Anglesey53.65.76.9*
Gwynedd65.44.73.7*
Conwy26.85.78.1*
Denbighshire20.27.77.9*
Flintshire8.13.67.32.6
Wrexham9.17.27.0*
Powys14.84.77.6*
Ceredigion43.66.07.2*
Pembrokeshire15.04.67.2*
Carmarthenshire35.06.97.7*
Swansea8.94.75.6*
Neath Port Talbot9.93.76.4*
Bridgend5.73.65.1*
Vale of Glamorgan8.34.46.1*
Cardiff11.54.75.0*
Rhondda Cynon Taf7.94.25.3*
Merthyr Tydfil7.9*5.3*
Caerphilly10.83.46.8*
Blaenau Gwent5.63.45.3*
Torfaen8.05.25.3*
Monmouthshire5.44.36.6*
Newport9.14.63.5*

Metadata

Title
Frequency of speaking Welsh, by Welsh local authority

Last update
31 March 2020 31 March 2020

Next update
June 2020

Publishing organisation
Welsh Government

Source 1
Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics

Contact email
welshlanguagedata@gov.wales

Designation
National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation
Local authorities

Geographical coverage
Wales

Languages covered
English and Welsh

Data 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-licence

General description
This dataset provides information on how often people aged 3 or more 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
Quarterly

Data reference periods
2007 to 2019

Rounding 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
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.

Keywords
Welsh speakers, language, frequency