Although the first part of the BAT journal is devoted to the presenting of the results of the Street Measurement of Basque, the Soziolinguistika Kluster wanted to give prominent players in the field of the Basque language in the Basque Country the chance to air their views. So the views of many experts and associations on the results for 2006 are included. So in this section of the 64th edition of the BAT Journal the reader will find the opinions of Eguzki Urteaga, the EHE (organisation set up to defend the Basque language),Topagunea (Federation of Basque-language Associations), Rosa Ramos or Xabier Isasi, among others.

The object of this article is to make some reflections about the 5th survey of street usage of Basque in the Northern Basque Country. Several data are examined, taking in account age groups, number of inhabitants per town, monologues. The street use of the language drops without stop, passing from 6,5 % in 1993 to 4,6 % in 2006. However, this continuing fall occurs only in the group of the adults and that of the old persons. On the contrary, in the groups of the children and of the young people the fall is more or less stopped now, although the use of the chidren drops again a little according to the last survey. The factor which stops this fall of the street use could be the school teaching of the language or, also, that a part of this generation would be more daring by using the language learned at school outside of it, taking the Basque language like symbol of identity and difference. It is observed that the percentages of the street use of the language and those of bilinguals follow a parallel way.

In this paper, Paula Kasares, who is a lecturer at the Public University of Navarre, analyses the results of the 2006 Street Measurement of Basque in Navarre. She provides a methodological presentation of the research done in Navarre and goes on to examine all the variables that are significant in order to understand the overall results and use of Basque in Navarre: the geographical variable, results according to age group, or according to municipality typology, the effect of gender on Basque use, among others.

In this paper Jose Felix Diaz de Tuesta analyses the data on the street use of Basque in Gipuzkoa in the light of the results for 2006. In the first part of the article the author not only analyses the results for 2006, he also presents the results gathered since 1989. The second part of the article is given over to analysing the factors that exert an influence on street use of Basque, and the author makes use of the results of the street measurement in Gipuzkoa in order to specify which the most influential factors are.

This paper sets out to examine the evolution that street use of Basque has undergone in Bizkaia between 1989 and 2006. In addition to general data, differences existing among the people of Bizkaia in different age groups are also analysed, in addition to the differences according to the number of inhabitants in a municipality as well as the level of Basque knowledge in the municipality in question. The second part of the paper is devoted to a reflection on the evolution that street use of Basque has undergone in Bilbao, when looking at differences according to age and gender. The last part of the paper deals with the influence exerted by the presence of children on the use of Basque by the inhabitants of Bilbao and the use of Basque in intergenerational relationships.

In the 62nd edition of the BAT journal, I presented some hypotheses on the Measurement of Street Use for 2006 at the request of my friend, Lionel Joly. So I shall be comparing these hypotheses with the results obtained in the 2006 Measurement and with what has been written with respect to previous ones.

The Basque Country’s Measurement of Street Use has been going on for a considerable period of time by now, for the last 17 years, in fact. It has been repeated every four or five years since it was first conducted in 1989. The edition we are looking at now is the 5th one, and this paper will be assessing the main features and innovations of the research. In this 5th Street.