The latest figures come from the Jersey Annual Social Survey issued on 5 December 2012. The survey of 4200 households took place in June 2012 and resulted in 2400 returns. It showed that 18% of the population could speak some words and phrases, with more than 7% of those over 65 being fluent or able to speak a significant amount of . Two-thirds of adults said that they could not understand spoken , but more than a quarter were able to understand some, and 5% could usually or fully understand someone speaking . 4% of people said that they could write some , although under 1% could write fluently. Just under a third (32%) said that they could understand something written in .