Interpreter proxy versus healthcare interpreter for administration of patient surveys following arthroplasty: a pilot study

Table 2 Languages utilised in this study

Language	N	Mean age	Mean years in Australia
Arabic	16	68.5	27.2
Spanish	11	76.6	33.2
Chinese	11	71.8	17.8
Greek	8	77.6	51.1
Macedonian	7	68.9	38.0
Italian	6	76.0	40.3
Serbian	4	77.5	36.2
Vietnamese	4	68.5	27.5
Assyrian	3	67.7	4.0
Punjabi	3	69.7	8.3
Croatian	2	76.5	49.0
Farsi	2	59.0	10.0
Others^a	8	68.4	26.6

Preferred languages for the included patients and the mean number of years the patient had spent living in Australia
^aOne each for Armenian, Croatian, Haka, Maltese, Portuguese, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu

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