QUESTION 3 - ANSWER

In what province is English most widely spoken?

You know from earlier modules that "province" is the name of the variable coded for the province that people live in. Now we must figure out which variable to use for language.

lookfor language

33. lang_cod  byte   %9.0g       lang_cod   21 :language code
Use the command "tab province lang_cod" to get the following chart:

tab province lang_cod

           |                   21 :language code
  province |  01-engli   02-afrik   03-xhosa    04-zulu   05-tswan |     Total
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+----------
      CAPE |       110        347        153          0         35 |       652
     NATAL |       165          9          0         89          0 |       266
  TRANSVAA |       115        218         44        232        119 |      1033
  ORANGE F |         2          8         26          4         32 |       217
  KWA ZULU |         0          0          0        955          0 |       955
  KANGWANE |         0          0          0         13          0 |       127
   QWA-QWA |         0          0          0          0          0 |        25
  GAZANKUL |         0          0          0          0          0 |        97
    LEBOWA |         0          0          0          0          0 |       494
  KWANDEBE |         0          0          0          2          9 |        51
  TRANSKEI |         0          0        593          0          0 |       604
  BOPHUTHA |         0          0         17         31        299 |       405
     VENDA |         0          0          0          0          0 |        76
    CISKEI |         0          0        142          0          0 |       142
-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+----------
     Total |       392        582        975       1326        494 |      5144

(There is no need to worry about negative values here because there are no negative values recorded for these two variables.) From here we can see that the most people speak English in Natal Province, scoring 165 individuals.

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