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Census of Population and Housing 2001

Sri Lanka, 2001
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LKA_2001_PHC_v01_M
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Department of Census and Statistics
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Attendance at School/Voc/Tech (P15_S_ATTENDANCE)

Data file: POPULATION

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 56
End: 56
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Attendance at School/ Vocational / Technical/ Other Educational Institution in the Last 30 Days
Categories
Value Category
1 Pre School
2 School
3 University
4 Voc/Training
5 Other Institute
6 Not Attending
9 Not Reported
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.

Description

Definition
Whether the person who had being enrolled in order to obtain a systematic education during the last 30 days was recorded here. Those who were enrolled but were unable to actually attend due to vacation, illness or similar reason were regarded on 'attending'.

Pre-School
A pre-school is where a systematic education is provided before a child is admitted to grade 1 for formal school education.

School
A school can be a government or recognized private school which provides formal education for any number of grades from grade 1 to GCE (Advanced Level).

University
Any recognized university (including the open university) is considered as a University.

Vocational/Technical Institution
Any institution which conducts regular classes or courses to provide systematic vocational or technical training and at the end able to issue a recognized certificate for employment or self employment was considered as 'Vocational/Technical Institution'.

Other Educational Institution
Institutions which do not issue a recognized certificate such as private tuition classes, dressmaking classes etc. were regarded as 'Other Educational Institution'.
Universe
For persons 3 years & over (born on or before June 1998)
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