Recensement General de la Population du Logement et de l'Agriculture de 1971 - IPUMS Subset
Haiti, 1971
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HTI_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Département des Finances et des Affaires Economiques, Institute Haïtien de Statistique, IPUMS
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Number of completed years of education (HT1971A_EDGRADE)
Data file: HTI1971_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
173
End:
173
Width:
1
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar v="HT71A413 HT71A414 HT71A415 HT71A416 HT71A417 HT71A418">[Questions 12 to 14 are asked to persons 5 years old and over]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="HT71A414 HT71A415 HT71A416 HT71A417"><span class="em">13. Highest level of schooling completed</span><br />Write here the level of education: None, Literacy classes, Primary school, Secondary school, Technical, University, Teacher-training school <br /><div class="i1">[] 0 None<br />[] 1 Literacy classes<br />[] 2 Primary<br />[] 3 Secondary<br />[] 4 Technical<br />[] 5 Higher education<br />[] 6 University</div> <br />Indicate if the education level is complete or incomplete. Choose the highest class achieved within the education level<br /><div class="i1">[] 0 Complete<br />[] 1 Incomplete</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 0<br />[] 1<br />[] 2<br />[] 3<br />[] 4<br />[] 5<br />[] 6</div><br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="HT71A414 HT71A415 HT71A416 HT71A417"><span class="em">13. Highest level of schooling completed</span><br />Write here the level of education: None, Literacy classes, Primary school, Secondary school, Technical, University, Teacher-training school <br /><div class="i1">[] 0 None<br />[] 1 Literacy classes<br />[] 2 Primary<br />[] 3 Secondary<br />[] 4 Technical<br />[] 5 Higher education<br />[] 6 University</div> <br />Indicate if the education level is complete or incomplete. Choose the highest class achieved within the education level<br /><div class="i1">[] 0 Complete<br />[] 1 Incomplete</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 0<br />[] 1<br />[] 2<br />[] 3<br />[] 4<br />[] 5<br />[] 6</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1 year |
| 2 | 2 years |
| 3 | 3 years |
| 4 | 4 years |
| 5 | 5 years |
| 6 | 6 years |
| 7 | More than 6 years |
| 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 v="HT71A413 HT71A414 HT71A415 HT71A416 HT71A417 HT71A418"><span class="h3">C) Questions 12-14 Education</span><br /><br /> [Questions 12 to 14 are asked to persons 5 years old and over]<br /></svar></p>
<p><svar a="all" v="HT71A414 HT71A415 HT71A416 HT71A417"><span class="em">Column 13</span><br /><br /><span class="em">a) Highest level of schooling completed. </span> 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.<br /><br /><span class="em">None</span> means that the person has never attended school, or any literacy center.<br /><br /><span class="em">Literacy Center</span>: (alph) includes all centers of this type, whether government or private, such as ONEC centers [<span class="lang">Office National d'Education Communautaire</span>], ONAAC centers [<span class="lang">Office National d'Alphabétisation et d'Action Communautaire</span>], evening programs for the illiterate<br /><br /><span class="pg">pg 32</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span class="em">Primary</span> (Prim) or <span class="em">Secondary</span> (Sec): All schools fitting the classic organizational description as defined by the National Education Department.<br /><br /><span class="em">Technical</span> (Tech): Includes all establishments whose goal is to prepare students to enter a specific trade or profession directly.<br /><br />An example would the J. B. Damier School in Port au Prince; provincial farm-schools The Arts and Trades Center [<span class="lang">Centre des Arts et Métiers</span>]; teaching schools and rural teaching schools; commercial schools: accounting, secretarial, cosmetology; nursing schools, and medical technology schools<br /><br /><span class="em">University</span> (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.<br /><br /><span class="em">Schools of Higher Education</span> (E.S.) Includes all private or public schools providing classes at an advanced academic level, such as the free law schools [<span class="lang">Ecoles Libres de Droit</span>] in the provinces, and the schools educating engineers, economists and statisticians.<br /><br />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'.<br /><br />Then check off the highest class completed in the type of education indicated. <br /><br /><span class="pg">[page 33]</span><br /><br />[Example on top of page 33 is omitted.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Please note</span>: Before indicating the number corresponding to the class, refer to the correspondence table in Appendix II in this instruction manual.<br /></svar>
<p><svar a="all" v="HT71A414 HT71A415 HT71A416 HT71A417"><span class="em">Column 13</span><br /><br /><span class="em">a) Highest level of schooling completed. </span> 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.<br /><br /><span class="em">None</span> means that the person has never attended school, or any literacy center.<br /><br /><span class="em">Literacy Center</span>: (alph) includes all centers of this type, whether government or private, such as ONEC centers [<span class="lang">Office National d'Education Communautaire</span>], ONAAC centers [<span class="lang">Office National d'Alphabétisation et d'Action Communautaire</span>], evening programs for the illiterate<br /><br /><span class="pg">pg 32</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span class="em">Primary</span> (Prim) or <span class="em">Secondary</span> (Sec): All schools fitting the classic organizational description as defined by the National Education Department.<br /><br /><span class="em">Technical</span> (Tech): Includes all establishments whose goal is to prepare students to enter a specific trade or profession directly.<br /><br />An example would the J. B. Damier School in Port au Prince; provincial farm-schools The Arts and Trades Center [<span class="lang">Centre des Arts et Métiers</span>]; teaching schools and rural teaching schools; commercial schools: accounting, secretarial, cosmetology; nursing schools, and medical technology schools<br /><br /><span class="em">University</span> (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.<br /><br /><span class="em">Schools of Higher Education</span> (E.S.) Includes all private or public schools providing classes at an advanced academic level, such as the free law schools [<span class="lang">Ecoles Libres de Droit</span>] in the provinces, and the schools educating engineers, economists and statisticians.<br /><br />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'.<br /><br />Then check off the highest class completed in the type of education indicated. <br /><br /><span class="pg">[page 33]</span><br /><br />[Example on top of page 33 is omitted.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Please note</span>: Before indicating the number corresponding to the class, refer to the correspondence table in Appendix II in this instruction manual.<br /></svar>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the number of years of education a person has completed in the highest type of instruction received.
Universe
Haiti 1971: Persons age 5+ who received some type of instruction [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 2.4%]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Education Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |