Personal questionnaire
1. What is your main language, i.e. the language you think in and know best?
If you think in more than one language in which you are fluent, please specify them below.
[] 1 German (or Swiss German)
[] 2 French (or Swiss French patois)
[] 3 Italian (or Ticino or Grisons Italian dialect)
[] 4 Rhaeto-Romansch
[] 5 Serbian / Croatian
[] 6 Albanian
[] 7 Portuguese
[] 8 Spanish
[] 9 English
[] 10 Other(s), please specify: ____
27. What is the main language, i.e. the language which the person thinks in and knows best?
[Asked only of those who do not live alone in question 23.]
More than one answer is possible for someone who thinks in more than one language and knows these languages very well.
For infants who cannot speak yet, indicate the mother's main language(s).
Person 1
[] 1 German (or Swiss German dialect)
[] 2 French (or Swiss French patois)
[] 3 Italian (or Ticino or Grisons Italian dialect)
[] 4 Rhaeto-Romansch
[] 5 Serbian/Croatian
[] 6 Albanian
[] 7 Portuguese
[] 8 Spanish
[] 9 English
[] 10 Other language(s)
[Same questions are repeated for persons 3 - 6 and omitted from this form]
3.3 Structural statistics
3.3.2 Basic output
The structural statistics provide additional information on the basic statistics, together with base information for the analysis of the thematic statistics of the census system. They cover the resident population, excluding people who live in institutional households. The information on dwellings relates to occupied dwellings. The structural statistics provide annual results on the following topic areas:
T4 Information provided by the structural statistics
Topic area "language, religion and culture"
[p.17]Languages
- Main language
- Language(s) spoken at work / at school
- Language(s) spoken at home
- Usual language
Religions
- Affiliation with a church or religious community
3.4.5 Language, religion and culture
Topics
Statistics on language, religion, and culture provide information on cultural diversity, the situation of minorities, the balance and relations between majorities and minorities and between communities, social and cultural participation, values and attitudes, as well as the country's general development in the social and cultural spheres.
These are the main topics covered:
- The situation and development of multilingualism (learned and spoken languages, etc.)
- Language learning and further education and training
- Analysis of languages spoken in the family, work, school, and social environment
- Foreign population: Language skills and language practice, motivations, efforts made to learn Switzerland's national languages, and obstacles encountered
- Situation and development of religions in Switzerland (religious beliefs, affiliation, and practices)
- Analysis of cultural behaviour: Theatre and film attendance, reading (print media) and library visits, use of audiovisual media (radio, TV, internet), own cultural activities, cultural preferences, satisfaction with cultural services, factors that promote or impede the exercise of cultural activities
- Values and attitudes towards the diversity of languages and religions
- Influence of origin and migration path on cultural and religious practices and language skills
- Social integration (social and political participation, social relations, cohesion).
T9 Information provided by the area "Language, religion and culture"