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Contents

• Executive Summary
  
  
• Introduction
  
  
• Describing the Language-Minority Population
  
  
  Extant Demographic Data on U.S. Linguistic Diversity
  Levels of English Proficiency
  Geographic Distribution of Language-Minority Populations
  
  
• Challenges for Including Language-Minority Population in Surveys
  
  
  Difficulties in Assessing Language Usage
  The Multiplicity of Languages
  Additional Factors Contributing to Underrepresenatation in National Studies
  
  
• Sampling, Measuring and Interviewing Language-Minority Populations
  
  
  Sampling Procedures
  Survey Instrument Issues
  Interviewer Expertise
  Problems of Within-Group Heterogeneity
  Strategies for Exerting Quality Control Over Translation and Interview Practices
  
  
• Technological Innovation and Linguistic Logistics
  
  
• Summary
  
  
  Barriers to Inclusion
  Enabling Inclusion
  
  
• Appendix
  
  
  1. Recent and Current-Practice Examples
  2. Inclusion of Language-Minority Population in National Studies: Challenges, Opportunities, and Past Practices - July 27-28, 2000 Meeting Agenda
  3. Biographical Sketches of Presenters
  4. Workshop Participants

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