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National Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Papua New Guinea, 1980
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PNG_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Statistics Office, IPUMS
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Current school attendance (PG1980A_SCHOOL)

Data file: PNG1980_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 226
End: 226
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions 4-14 were asked of all persons who stayed in the residence last night.]</p>

<p>12. Do you go to community or high school now?</p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes<br />[] No</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Yes
2 No
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h1">Section 6 - The census questions</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Urban RNVs and rural villages</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 12</span><div class="i1">Do you go to community or high school now?</div><p>Do not ask this question of most people who you wrote 'NIL' for in Question 11.
<br />The only exception is a child now in grade 1. He would be 'NIL' in Question 11 but 'yes' for Question 12.
<br />Note that we only want recognized community and high schools. Do not include bible schools or <span class="lang">tok ples</span> schools.
<br />It does not include teachers colleges, universities, vocational schools or other non-school training.
<br />Do not ask old people or small children when the answer is obviously 'no'.
<br />Students at community or high schools on school holidays should answer 'yes'.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether a person is currently attending school.
Universe
Papua New Guinea 1980: Persons age 5 to 25 [discrepancies: type I none; type II 37.5 %]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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