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2001 Census

Gaelic Report

In the 2001 Census, people were asked four questions about the Gaelic language - whether they could:

Understand spoken Gaelic,
Speak Gaelic,
Read Gaelic,
Write Gaelic

This report contains a full analysis of the answers to the questions about Gaelic in the 2001 Census. Comparisons are also made with results from the 1991 Census. In many of the tables and charts for this report, Scotland has been divided into six "Gaelic areas":

Eilean Siar (the Western Isles)
Skye & Lochalsh
The Rest of Highland (excluding Skye and Lochalsh)
Argyll & Bute
The Other Main Gaelic Areas (the islands of North Ayrshire, the north of Perth & Kinross and the north of Stirling council areas)
Rest of Scotland

Release Date	10 October 2005
Primary Media	Printed Publication available from Statistics Customer Services using our Contact Form
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Report	A downloadable version of the report is available
	in the sections below

Commentary	PDF (1.3 Mb)

Tables 1 to 32	Lotus 1-2-3 (320 Kb) Excel (2.0 Mb) PDF (215 Kb)

Charts 1 to 5	PDF (61 Kb)

Maps 2 & 3 and Appendix	PDF (1.7 Mb)

This page is also available in Gaelic.

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