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Population aged 15 and over according to exclusive use of Catalan and areas of use Catalonia. 2018
Areas of use Metropolità Comarques Gironines Camp de Tarragona Terres de l'Ebre Ponent Comarques Centrals Alt Pirineu i Aran Penedés Catalonia
Members of the home (1) 719.4 241.4 117.8 82.9 123.9 150.1 24.9 102.4 1,562.9
Friends 301.1 169.1 65.1 76.0 83.1 98.0 14.1 48.2 854.6
Neighbours 388.5 215.1 69.4 84.2 98.0 131.5 21.0 63.1 1,070.8
Classmates (2) 79.2 40.6 15.4 11.5 18.1 21.9 2.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 197.8
Workmates (3) 202.5 93.7 41.2 30.0 38.5 56.4 9.6 32.9 504.8
Users or clients of Catalonia (4) 162.9 49.1 20.7 17.3 28.4 36.7 6.3 14.6 336.1
Small business 516.3 231.2 95.6 76.6 111.2 144.5 21.4 73.9 1,270.6
Large business 460.7 189.8 83.9 59.5 96.2 118.0 16.8 64.2 1,089.1
Financial entities 920.9 299.0 136.9 89.8 134.9 187.1 31.3 121.5 1,921.4
Local administration 1,220.0 355.7 175.1 103.2 159.8 209.6 35.8 163.9 2,422.9
Generalitat de Catalunya Administration 1,266.2 324.3 169.3 88.7 151.6 193.0 34.8 160.7 2,388.5
State administration 650.1 189.6 93.1 53.2 82.2 115.5 18.7 80.7 1,283.1
Medical staff 808.9 265.1 124.2 70.0 122.9 169.8 25.2 99.5 1,685.6
Writing personal notes .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Type text messages 295.4 143.3 53.2 45.1 70.5 95.5 13.3 39.8 756.1
Units: Milers de persones.
Source: Idescat and Direcció General de Política Lingüística. Survey on Language Uses of the Population.
(1) Population living in homes with two or more people.
(2) Population taking studies.
(3) Employed population.
(4) Employed population related with users and clients.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Population aged 15 and over according to exclusive use of Catalan and areas of use Catalonia. 2018
Areas of use Metropolità Comarques Gironines Camp de Tarragona Terres de l'Ebre Ponent Comarques Centrals Alt Pirineu i Aran Penedés Catalonia
Members of the home (1) 19.7 43.4 30.4 60.9 44.9 48.7 46.6 28.2 27.2
Friends 7.4 27.5 15.1 49.9 27.6 29.1 22.8 12.2 13.4
Neighbours 9.5 35.0 16.0 55.3 32.5 39.0 34.1 16.0 16.8
Classmates (2) 11.8 37.5 19.2 42.3 32.7 35.0 30.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 18.2
Workmates (3) 9.4 30.5 20.0 43.3 23.5 33.9 29.1 15.8 15.3
Users or clients of Catalonia (4) 8.3 18.2 11.4 27.7 20.4 25.8 20.7 7.9 11.3
Small business 12.6 37.7 22.1 50.3 36.9 42.9 34.7 18.7 19.9
Large business 11.3 30.9 19.4 39.1 31.9 35.0 27.2 16.3 17.1
Financial entities 22.5 48.7 31.7 59.0 44.7 55.5 50.7 30.8 30.1
Local administration 29.8 57.9 40.5 67.7 53.0 62.2 58.0 41.5 37.9
Generalitat de Catalunya Administration 30.9 52.8 39.1 58.2 50.3 57.3 56.5 40.7 37.4
State administration 15.9 30.9 21.5 34.9 27.3 34.3 30.2 20.4 20.1
Medical staff 19.8 43.2 28.7 45.9 40.8 50.4 40.8 25.2 26.4
Writing personal notes .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Type text messages 7.2 23.3 12.3 29.6 23.4 28.4 21.6 10.1 11.8
Units: Percentatge.
Source: Idescat and Direcció General de Política Lingüística. Survey on Language Uses of the Population.
(1) Population living in homes with two or more people.
(2) Population taking studies.
(3) Employed population.
(4) Employed population related with users and clients.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: July 8, 2019.

Methodological note

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.