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Much of the media seems to concentrating the very few negatives from the Welsh language 2013-15 survey. However the positives from this survey far out weigh these negatives so i thought i would share them. The Welsh Language Use Survey 2013-15 was commissioned by the Welsh Government and the Welsh Language Commissioner in 2013. The survey was conducted over a period of two years between 2013 and 2015. The results of the first year of the survey (2013-14) were published on 29 January 2015 (Welsh Government and Welsh Language Commissioner 2015a) Some of the findings There was an increase in every age group in the number of those who stated that they could speak Welsh but not fluently, but there was a substantial increase amongst the 3 to 15 and 16 to 29 age groups. The largest increases in the number of fluent Welsh speakers since 2004-06 were seen in Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taf, with 7,100 more fluent Welsh speakers in Cardiff and 5,300 more in Rhondda Cynon Taf. 130,...

I coped this from a welsh government pdf file.  How many people in Wales speak Welsh?  The 2011 Census is the key source of information about the number of people who can speak Welsh.  The Welsh Language Use Survey was not intended to provide new statistics on the number of people who say they can speak Welsh, but rather to provide a picture of how fluent Welsh speakers are, and how they use the language.   The Census has collected information about the population of England and Wales every  10 years since 1801.  The latest census in England and Wales took place in March 2011.  Question 17 in the 2011 Census asked people living in Wales:  The 2011 Census showed that 19.0 per cent of people 3 years old and over living in Wales said they could speak Welsh:  ten years earlier the figure from the 2001 Census was 20.8 per cent. The 2001 figure showed an increase ...