Social History of the Welsh Language : Evidence of the 1891 Census; Project 2

The aims of the project were as follows :<br> to collect and process information from the data relating to the Welsh language in the 1891 Census Enumerators' Returns in 20 selected communities in Wales;<br> to create computer-readable data files on the language ability of around 90,000 individuals, i.e. five per cent of the population;<br> to undertake a quantitative analysis of the socio-economic structure of Welsh/English language ability on the basis of the above data;<br> to develop a classification of occupations in order to explore links between economic activity and the process of language change;<br> to write a volume on the basis of the above in order to deepen our socio-cultural understanding of a society in which nearly a million people spoke Welsh and over half a million were monoglot Welsh.