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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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Present school attendence (CM2005A_SCHOOL)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 311
End: 311
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="CM05A498">22. Present school attendance<br />Is the person attending a school?<br /><div class="i1">[Question 22 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 /><br />If no, go to 25.<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 English and French
2 French
3 English
4 Other system
5 Does not attend school
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="CM05A498"><span class="em">22. Current school attendance</span><br />Q. Do you/does ____ currently go to an educational establishment?<br />If the answer is Yes,<br /><div class="i1">-Ask about the system (French or English) and mark the code corresponding to the answer provided.</div><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-Doesn't currently go to school</div><br /><br />N.B. Questions Q23 and Q24 are about people who have stopped going to school as well as those who are currently going to an educational establishment (Eliminate the filter that is on the Q22 level of the Standard Household Questionnaire). Questions Q23 to Q26 are about:<br /><div class="i1">a. the previous educational situation, the last position as a student, for people who have stopped currently going to an educational establishment.<br />b. the educational situation at the moment for people who are currently students</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates that a person is currently attending school.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Persons age 3+ who ever attended school [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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