Languages used in Alaskan households, 1990-2015

These data show languages spoken in the household for people over the age of 5 in Alaska, in addition to the total population, by community. These data come from census surveys, both from the American Community Survey and the decennial census Population and language use data were originally extracted from IPUMS National Historic Geographic Information Systems website: https://data2.nhgis.org/main (Citation: Steven Manson, Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 12.0 [Database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. 2017. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V12.0 ). The file "household_language.csv" is a consolidation of a number of tables downloaded from this system (see methods for more information). The "language.Rmd" file is a script which combines the files by year into a single file. It also cleans up place names (including typographical errors) and uses the USGS place names dataset and the SASAP regions dataset to assign latitude and longitude values and region values to each place in the dataset. Additionally, the "language_vis.Rmd" file is a script that uses this data to visualize Native language use by community, displayed in the "language_vis.html" file.