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To assess the regular use of Icelandic, we built a composite score
including ratings of the frequency of using Icelandic media and the
likelihood of using Icelandic for shopping, having informal conversa-
tions with friends, discussing matters at work, visiting a doctor, and
being at home with the family. Each of these situations were rated on
a scale of “very unlikely”, which corresponded to a value of 1, to “very
likely”, which corresponded to a value of 5. We summed up those
values to obtain the composite score. When assessing social contacts,
we summed up participants’ answers to two questions: whether 1)
they have been invited to Icelandic friends’ homes, and whether 2)
they have invited Icelandic friends to their home, where the scale
ranged from never=0, once or twice=1, a few times=2, and many
times=3. Thus, the maximum score was 6. Social contacts were fur-
ther assessed through peoples’ memberships in clubs and associations
in Iceland. For both dependent variables SILC and PICS, we fitted a
binomial logistic regression model with the R-function glm() with
the independent variables mentioned in this chapter.
5. Results
In the following chapter, we present the results of our study. First, we
outline the characteristics of the sample that the study is based on
and how we obtained the final number of participants for analysis.
Then, we present the results of two logistic regression analyses evalu-
ating factors influencing immigrants’ self-reported proficiency in
Icelandic and satisfaction with Icelandic courses, respectively.
Our analysis is based on a sample of 1934 participants. We arrived
at this number after we had to include 277 of the initial 2211 par-
ticipants. We will first outline how we obtained the number of par-
ticipants this study is based on and the reasons for excluding the
participants after describing the characteristics of the final sample.
5.1 Recruited sample and exclusion of missing and
ambiguous data
Initially, we recruited 2211 responses from migrants in Iceland or
about 4% of the immigrant population in Iceland on 1 January 2019
PREDICTORS OF SATISFACTION / DISSATISFACTION WITH ICELANDIC LANGUAGE
COURSE AND ICELANDIC PROFICIENCY AMONG ADULT IMMIGRANTS IN ICELAND
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