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Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS
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Ever attended school (CM2005A_EVERSCHL)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 310
End: 310
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CM05A436 CM05A497 CM05A498 CM05A499 CM05A500 CM05A501 CM05A502"><span class="h3">Persons over 3 years of age</span><br /> [Questions 21 through 26 were asked of persons 3 years of age and older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A497">21. Has the person been to school?<br /><div class="i1">[Question 21 was asked of persons 3 years of age and older.]</div><br /><div class="i1">English</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><br /><div class="i1">French</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Yes<br />[] No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 English and French
2 French
3 English
4 Other system
5 Never attended
8 Unknown
9 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
<svar a="all" v="CM05A497"><span class="em">21. Previous school attendance</span><br />This question related to this variable is only for people aged 3 years and older.<br /><br />School attendance refers to attendance in a public or private (secular or religious) educational establishment, to be a regular student at any level and during a specifically determined period of time.<br /><div class="i1">-First ask the surveyed person if they have already been to school:</div><br />Q. Have you/has ______ already been to school?<br />If the answer is yes,<br /><div class="i1">-Ask in what system and mark the code corresponding to the answer provided.</div><br /><br />Codes for the terms of this variable are as follows:<br /><div class="i1">1-French and English<br />2-French<br />3-English<br />4-Other system<br />5-Never been to school</div><br /><br />If the answer to this question is No,<br /><div class="i1">-Mark code '5' and go to Q 27</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if a person has ever attended school.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Persons age 3+ [discrepancies: type I none; type II 1.3%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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