The U.S. Census Bureau will make the census questionnaire and other materials available in multiple languages based on its understanding of populations in the United States with limited English-speaking households.
The Census questionnaire will be available in Spanish as a print version, as well as on the enumerators’ tablets as options when doing field enumeration.
When responding online, the Internet Self-Response Instrument will be available in 12 non-English languages, which include Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog, Polish, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Japanese.
The Census Bureau will provide Census Questionnaire Assistance by phone in 12 non-English languages, including Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog, Polish, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Japanese, as well as in American Sign Language.
The U.S. Census Bureau will also produce a glossary of census terms, a card for enumerators to identify the language of the household, and video and print guides will be available in the 59 non-English languages listed below:
Croatian | Chinese | Farsi | Nepali |
Navajo | Bulgarian | Vietnamese | German |
Armenian | Romanian | Hebrew | Lithuanian |
Russian | Hindi | Telugu | Malayalam |
Yoruba | Arabic | Ukrainian | Burmese |
Swahili | Czech | Tagalog | Bengali |
Greek | Lao | Indonesian | Marathi |
French | Amharic | Hmong | Serbian |
Sinhala | Haitian Creole | Somali | Albanian |
Tigrinya | Slovak | Portuguese | Thai |
Turkish | Ilocano | American Sign Language | Japanese |
For populations that speak languages beyond the 59 supported languages, the U.S. Census Bureau plans to create video shells and print templates for adaptation.
Below is a useful graphic to summarize the non-English language support:
