Context:  2005 American Community Survey

The 2005 American Community Survey asked respondents who self-reported speaking a language other than English to indicate their ability to speak English using the following four categories: “Very well,” “Well,” “Not well,” or “Not at all.”

Data is published under the following four overarching categories: “Spanish,” “Other Indo-European,” “Asian and Pacific Island,” and “Other” languages and further separated by three age categories 5-17, 18-64 and 65 and over.