South African Census 1980
South Africa, 1980
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Reference ID
zaf-dos-census-1980-v1.3
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Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)
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Oct 18, 2012
Last modified
May 09, 2020
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First home language (HHLANG1)
Data file: sa-census-1980-v1.3
Overview
Valid:
25016525
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
47
loc_end_pos:
48
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 25
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afrikaans | 4938513 |
19.7%
|
| 2 | English | 2838610 |
11.3%
|
| 3 | Dutch | 12579 |
0.1%
|
| 4 | German | 41395 |
0.2%
|
| 5 | Greek | 17858 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | Italian | 14754 |
0.1%
|
| 7 | Portugese | 57674 |
0.2%
|
| 8 | French | 7459 |
0%
|
| 9 | Tamil | 22293 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | Hindi | 24263 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Telegu | 3581 |
0%
|
| 12 | Gujarati | 26199 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | Urdu | 12599 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | Chinese | 3484 |
0%
|
| 15 | Xhosa | 2806485 |
11.2%
|
| 16 | Zulu | 6186969 |
24.7%
|
| 17 | Swazi | 644881 |
2.6%
|
| 18 | South Ndebele | 290118 |
1.2%
|
| 19 | North Ndebele | 161795 |
0.6%
|
| 20 | North Sotho | 2456699 |
9.8%
|
| 21 | South Sotho | 1932711 |
7.7%
|
| 22 | Tswana | 1358479 |
5.4%
|
| 23 | Shangaan/Tsonga | 917466 |
3.7%
|
| 24 | Venda | 160401 |
0.6%
|
| 25 | Any other language | 79260 |
0.3%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.