Selected Indicators from the U.S. Census and Chicago Public Schools Records Related to the Lives and Schooling of Children

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Selected Indicators from the U.S. Census and Chicago Public Schools Records Related to the Lives and Schooling of Children

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Table 4: Language Background

	Count			Percentage of Total Households
	1990	2000	Increase/ (Decrease)	1990	2000	Percentage Point Increase/ (Decrease)
Households in Linguistic Isolation	2,333	2,891	558	16.3%	20.7%	4.4%
	Count			Percentage of School-Age Children
School-Age Children (ages 5 to 17) Speaking Little or No English	904	1,550	646	6.3%	11.3%	5.0%

Note: A household consists of all the people who occupy a housing unit, including related family members and all unrelated people, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. When a household is in linguistic isolation, the primary language for all members 14-years-old and over is not English, and English is spoken less than "very well." All of the members of a linguistically isolated household are tabulated as linguistically isolated, including members less than 14-years-old who may speak only English.