Home / Central Data Catalog / TTO_2011_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [P]
central

2011 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Trinidad and Tobago, 2011
Get Microdata
Reference ID
TTO_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 03, 2025
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
3531

Years of schooling at highest level (TT2011A_EDYEAR)

Data file: TTO2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 271
End: 272
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Section 5: Education - For all persons</span></p>

<p>18(b). Years of schooling at highest level</p>
<div class="i1">How many years of schooling at the highest level did (N) [the respondent] have?<br /><br />[] 00 Less than 1 year<br />[] 01 year<br />[] 02 years<br />[] 03 years<br />[] 04 years<br />[] 05 years<br />[] 06 years<br />[] 07 years or more<br />[] 09 Not stated (NS)</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 Less than 1 year
01 1 year
02 2 years
03 3 years
04 4 years
05 5 years
06 6 years
07 7 years or more
99 NIU (not in universe)
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="h3">Section 5 - Education</span></p>

<p><span class="em">5.5 Years of schooling at the highest level of education</span></p>

<p>The number of years completed at the highest level of education is taken up in the census.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's years of schooling at the highest level of educational attainment.
Universe
Trinidad and Tobago 2011: Persons in private households living in Trinidad and Tobago with some education [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Back to Catalog