Table 5.
Language used at home by LOCHI caregivers and the primary language used at home by Australian adults
| LOCHI caregivers | Australian census data* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female caregiver | Male caregiver | Females | Males | |
| (n = 406) | (n = 386) | (n = 10,056,046) | (n = 9,799,242) | |
| Afrikaans | 3 | 3 | 8,447 | 8,359 |
| Arabic | 25 | 25 | 118,686 | 124,976 |
| Assyrian | 1 | 1 | 11,838 | 11,688 |
| Auslan | 31 | 22 | 3,061 | 2,477 |
| Cantonese | 9 | 12 | 128,845 | 115,708 |
| Croatian | 0 | 0 | 32,301 | 31,311 |
| Dutch | 1 | 1 | 19,937 | 16,246 |
| English | 377 | 356 | 7,909,832 | 7,671,501 |
| French | 1 | 2 | 22,669 | 20,547 |
| German | 1 | 0 | 40,908 | 34,726 |
| Greek | 3 | 2 | 127,971 | 124,255 |
| Hindi | 2 | 3 | 33,591 | 36,420 |
| Hungarian | 1 | 2 | 11,786 | 9,779 |
| Italian | 8 | 7 | 162,922 | 153,973 |
| Japanese | 3 | 2 | 20,750 | 14,361 |
| Kannada | 1 | 1 | 1,495 | 1,755 |
| Korean | 1 | 1 | 29,021 | 25,602 |
| Kurdish | 0 | 0 | 1,690 | 1,909 |
| Lithuanian | 0 | 0 | 1,183 | 822 |
| Macedonian | 1 | 1 | 33,785 | 34,050 |
| Makaton | 2 | 2 | 106 | 95 |
| Maltese | 1 | 1 | 18,745 | 17,769 |
| Mandarin | 3 | 4 | 117,285 | 103,315 |
| Nuer | 1 | 1 | 568 | 632 |
| Oromo | 1 | 1 | 488 | 510 |
| Persian (excluding Dari) | 2 | 2 | 11,193 | 11,648 |
| Polish | 2 | 1 | 29,574 | 23,815 |
| Russian | 1 | 0 | 20,587 | 15,915 |
| Samoan | 1 | 0 | 14,689 | 13,836 |
| Slovak | 1 | 0 | 2,413 | 2,164 |
| Spanish | 4 | 4 | 51,389 | 46,612 |
| Tagalog | 2 | 2 | 32,188 | 21,095 |
| Telugu | 3 | 3 | 3,286 | 4,990 |
| Thai | 1 | 0 | 15,048 | 8,597 |
| Turkish | 2 | 3 | 26,747 | 27,110 |
| Ukranian | 0 | 1 | 5,130 | 3,887 |
| Urdu | 2 | 2 | 8,561 | 10,727 |
| Vietnamese | 9 | 8 | 100,526 | 94,328 |
| Other | 6 | 6 | 354,048 | 346,725 |
| Cambodian | 1 | 0 | a | a |
| Chaldean | 1 | 1 | a | a |
| Creole (Mauritian) | 0 | 1 | a | a |
| Hula | 0 | 1 | a | a |
| Pidgin (Papua New Guinea) | 1 | 0 | a | a |
| Sri Lankan (ns) | 1 | 1 | a | a |
| Twi | 1 | 1 | a | a |
| Signed English | 1 | 1 | a | a |
| Missing data/not stated | 2 | 4 | 522,757 | 605,007 |
Note. For LOCHI data these figures total more than the number of participants as some participants spoke two or more languages. Languages present in census data but not in LOCHI data were amalgamated under “other.” “nfd” refers to no further definition, e.g., Chinese was reported but dialect was not specified. *Data from Australian Bureau of Statistics (2006b).