A boycott of the 2001 Carinthia census , reduced the count of Slovene speakers to less than 13,000 people , 2.38 % of a population of over 525,000 .
Recommendations for a boycott of the 2001 census , which asked for the language used in everyday communication , reduced the count of Slovene speakers to 12,554 people , 2.38 % of a total population of 527,333.
Carinthia