
| Basque Country | Basque Country | Navarra | French Basque Country | |||||||||
| Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | |
| Sample size (absolute values) | 7.185 | 3.496 | 3.689 | 3.599 | 1.760 | 1.839 | 1.587 | 784 | 803 | 1.999 | 952 | 1.047 |
| TOTAL | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| BILINGUALISM TYPE | ||||||||||||
| Bilingual usually using Basque | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Bilingual with balanced use | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| Bilingual usually using Spanish/French | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Passive bilingual | 15 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 7 |
| Spanish/French monolingual | 59 | 58 | 60 | 52 | 50 | 53 | 81 | 82 | 81 | 69 | 67 | 70 |
| BILINGUALISM TYPE | ||||||||||||
| Basque speaker | 26 | 25 | 26 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 23 | 22 |
| Spanish/French speaker | 74 | 75 | 74 | 70 | 70 | 69 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 78 | 77 | 78 |
| FIRST LANGUAGE | ||||||||||||
| Euskara | 17 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 22 |
| Basque and Spanish/French | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| Spanish/French | 79 | 80 | 78 | 76 | 77 | 75 | 90 | 91 | 90 | 72 | 72 | 73 |
| TYPOLOGY LANGUAGE | ||||||||||||
| Basque speaker from birth | 15 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 19 |
| Bilingual from birth | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Neo-Basque speaker | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Partially neo-Basque speaker | 13 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| Partially Castilanised/Francophonised | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Totally Castilanised/Francophonised | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Spanish/French speaker from birth | 58 | 57 | 58 | 50 | 49 | 51 | 80 | 81 | 79 | 66 | 64 | 67 |
Date June 20, 2008
Source: Sociolinguistic survey of the Basque Country. 2006
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