Description

MTONGKG indicates the respondent's native tongue. If they had difficulty naming a tongue, the one used most often in the household was identified. Parents were to determine the language of children too young to speak.

Comparability — General

The names of some languages were suppressed in the 1999 sample for confidentiality reasons but available in the 2009 sample, and vice versa.

Universe

Availability

• Kyrgyzstan: 1999, 2009