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The Welsh Language Board commissioned a series of three surveys over 2004-2006 in order to expand on the information available from the 2001 Census. The intention was to obtain information on who uses Welsh, and with whom, when and how much they use it. The survey, called the Language Use Survey, was organised to supplement the Living in Wales survey (LIW), conducted between 2004 and 2008 by the Welsh Assembly Government. The LIW survey provided the sample frame, i.e. those identified within LIW as able to speak Welsh formed the sample for the Welsh Language Use Survey. Data from all three survey years are combined here within one data file. (Users should note that it is not currently possible to link these data to the LIW data held at the UK Data Archive.) The Welsh Language Use Survey has been commissioned to run again from 2013 to 2015, using a sample frame from the successor to the LIW, the National Survey for Wales, which began in 2009. Further details of the plans can be found on the National Assembly for Wales' Welsh Language Use Survey 2013-15 webpage.

Main Topics:

Topics covered included: Welsh language skills; use of Welsh (by domain and frequency); use of Welsh in employment; demographic details.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Face-to-face interview

Self-completion