Language policy areas are exam­ined as sepa­rate policy 
vari­ables: administrative/ judi­cial, educa­tion, and general. Status of minority group 
languages under these poli­cies is measured by corre­sponding group variables.

Language policy is coded by means 
of scales for each vari­able ranging from +4 to –4 in value, with the posi­tive side of the 
scale repre­senting the protec­tive or promo­tive char­acter of a policy toward minority 
languages, the nega­tive side repre­senting the policy’s restric­tive­ness and a value of 0 
repre­senting the absence of a consti­tu­tional policy.

Our page on Measuring Language Policy has more about the logic behind the scales. References can be found on the Bibliography for Scale Development page.

Policy Scoring is as follows:

Policy scoring guide­lines are shown on the following pages:

Administrative, Judicial & Political Policy

Educational Policy

General Policy