HMONG POPULATION RESEARCH PROJECT
Linguistic Isolation
Population
Distribution | Average Year of Entry | Educational
Attainment | Income Distribution
Housing Variables | Employment Status | Linguistic Isolation | Occupational Distribution
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The language barrier between Hmong Americans and the general population has slowed down their process of adjustment to the new society that they had entered. According to the 1990 Census definition, a household is linguistically isolated if no one in the household aged 14 or over speaks English very well. A non-linguistically isolated household is one with persons 14 years and older who may speak another language but also speak English very well.
In California in 1990 thirty four percent of the Hmong American households were defined as non-linguistically isolated and sixty six percent were defined as linguistically isolated. The percentages of linguistic and non-linguistic isolation were similar in Minnesota and Wisconsin in1990. There were forty-one percent non-linguistically isolated households and fifty-nine percent linguistically isolated households in Minnesota. There were thirty-nine percent non-linguistically isolated households and sixty-one percent linguistically isolated households in Wisconsin in 1990.
Population
Distribution | Average Year of Entry | Educational
Attainment | Income Distribution
Housing Variables | Employment Status | Linguistic Isolation | Occupational Distribution
The Data
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Last Updated: November 2000