This dataset contains statistically weighted estimates of the languages spoken by 47 key health workforce professions actively licensed in California as of July 1st, 2023. These metrics can be compared by US Census Bureau language group, workforce category, license type, time since license issue date (in years), and CHIS region.

The dataset contains percentages of languages spoken for patient encounters in an inpatient setting, the emergency room, and hospital-based ambulatory surgery centers as well as languages spoken by the hospital-based workforce. There are also patient encounter-to-provider license ratios for each language by county. The patient encounter to provider license ratio can serve as an indicator for patient demand or need for services from a provider in a specific language. Smaller ratios indicate fewer patient encounters per provider license and less demand. Larger ratios of patient encounters per provider license indicate greater need for services in that language. This analysis features 45 languages that overlap between the patient-level data and health workforce data. These languages are grouped into the following language groups: African Languages, Asian and Pacific Islander Languages, European Languages, Middle Eastern Languages, Navajo Language, Spanish Language, and Sign Languages.

The dataset presents the languages in each county that meet the threshold of 3,000 Medi-Cal beneficiaries or five percent (5%) of each county’s total Medi-Cal beneficiary population, whichever is lower. The data are quarterly (January, April, July, October) for January 2015 through most recent Quarter.

These files contain monthly data by county for Medi-Cal certified eligibles, by various demographics traits. The data is split out and not distributed as a single dataset for the purposes of de-identification.