District-level linguistic diversity metrics derived from the 2011 Census C-16 mother tongue tables.
Usage
data(census_2011_linguistic_diversity)Format
A tibble with 640 rows and 10 columns:
- state_name_harmonized
Harmonized state name for joining across datasets
- state_code
Numeric state code
- district_code
Numeric district code
- n_languages
Number of distinct languages spoken
- total_speakers
Total speakers across all languages
- shannon_entropy
Shannon entropy of the language distribution
- effective_languages
Effective number of languages (exp of Shannon entropy)
- dominant_language
Most-spoken language
- dominant_share
Share of speakers of the dominant language
- district_name
Name of the district