Literal question
[Questions 12 to 14 are asked to persons 5 years old and over]
13. Highest level of schooling completed
Write here the level of education: None, Literacy classes, Primary school, Secondary school, Technical, University, Teacher-training school
[] 0 None
[] 1 Literacy classes
[] 2 Primary
[] 3 Secondary
[] 4 Technical
[] 5 Higher education
[] 6 University
Indicate if the education level is complete or incomplete. Choose the highest class achieved within the education level
[] 0 Complete
[] 1 Incomplete
[] 0
[] 1
[] 2
[] 3
[] 4
[] 5
[] 6
Interviewer instructions
C) Questions 12-14 Education
[Questions 12 to 14 are asked to persons 5 years old and over]
Column 13
a) Highest level of schooling completed. Indicate the type of education by writing an 'x' in the box corresponding to the answer you are given. The options are: none, literacy center, primary, secondary, technical, university, higher education.
None means that the person has never attended school, or any literacy center.
Literacy Center: (alph) includes all centers of this type, whether government or private, such as ONEC centers [Office National d'Education Communautaire], ONAAC centers [Office National d'Alphabétisation et d'Action Communautaire], evening programs for the illiterate
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affiliated with the Ministry of National Education, the municipality or another body, and even including the schools themselves created or operating due to volunteer work by individuals, etc.
Primary (Prim) or Secondary (Sec): All schools fitting the classic organizational description as defined by the National Education Department.
Technical (Tech): Includes all establishments whose goal is to prepare students to enter a specific trade or profession directly.
An example would the J. B. Damier School in Port au Prince; provincial farm-schools The Arts and Trades Center [Centre des Arts et Métiers]; teaching schools and rural teaching schools; commercial schools: accounting, secretarial, cosmetology; nursing schools, and medical technology schools
University (Univ): Includes all the colleges and faculties of the Sate University of Haiti, such as the College of Law and Economics; The Colleges of Medicine, Ethnology, Agronomy, Dentistry, Arts and Teaching, and the Colleges in the sciences.
Schools of Higher Education (E.S.) Includes all private or public schools providing classes at an advanced academic level, such as the free law schools [Ecoles Libres de Droit] in the provinces, and the schools educating engineers, economists and statisticians.
Indicate if the education is complete by marking an 'x' in the box corresponding to 'C', or incomplete by marking an 'x' in the box marked 'I'.
Then check off the highest class completed in the type of education indicated.
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[Example on top of page 33 is omitted.]
Please note: Before indicating the number corresponding to the class, refer to the correspondence table in Appendix II in this instruction manual.
