ELDIAdata: Statistical Data

• Main Author: ELDIA Statistical Team
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Multilingual Matters 2022
• Subjects: minority languages; Finno-Ugric; ELDIA European Language Diversity for All; language policies; endangered languages; karelian; meänkieli; North Sámi; Sámi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6721462

This dataset contains the statistical data retrieved from a large-scale questionnaire survey conducted in eight countries from speakers of thirteen Finno-Ugric minority languages, representing three branches of the language family: Finnic (Finnish, Meänkieli, Kven, Karelian, Veps, Estonian, Võro, Seto), Sámi (North Sámi) and Ugric (Hungarian). The databank consists of two major parts: the minority language target group database and the control group database. The ELDIAdata minority language database contains in 3,388 individual records; the language-specific data sets include 340 variables each. The entire control group database contains in total 1,460 records from seven countries, each country-specific data set covers 280 variables. The survey data sets include only the results of the closed questions. For the full list of all statistical data files, the coding of variables and their values please refer to the descriptions under “ELDIAdata: Metadata”.