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XIV Recenseamento Geral da População e IV Recenseamento Geral da Habitação - IPUMS Subset

Portugal, 2001
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PRT_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Portugal Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), IPUMS
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School attendance (PT2001A_SCHOOL)

Data file: PRT2001_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 236
End: 236
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="PT01A409 PT01A410 PT01A419 PT01A420 PT01A421 PT01A417 PT01A418 PT01A411 PT01A422 PT01A423 PT01A424 PT01A425 PT01A426 PT01A427 PT01A413 PT01A414 PT01A415 PT01A416 PT01A428 PT01A429 PT01A430 PT01A434">[Questions 3.1-21 were asked of persons who consider this living quarter their usual place of residence, according to question 3]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="PT01A414">12. Are you attending or have you ever attended school?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 No, never attended - Go to 16<br />[] 3 Attending<br />[] 5 Attended, but no more</div><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="PT01A414"><span class="em">Question 12 - Are you attending or have you ever attended school?</span><br /><div class="i1"><span class="em">No, never attended</span> - you have never regularly attended classes in an educational establishment. Usually, this situation refers to persons who have never enrolled in an educational establishment, although they may be able to read and write. It also applies to children who have not reached school age and who are not attending pre-school classes.<br /><br /><span class="em">Attending</span> - to tick this box, it is not enough to be enrolled, it is necessary to regularly attend classes. You must also tick this response for children in pre-school education. Attending vocational programs will be considered here whenever the program attended is equivalent to a level of public education.<br /><br /><span class="em">Attended, but no more</span> - whoever no longer attends classes, that is, whoever is no longer enrolled because they have finished their studies or have dropped out of school.</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 No, never attended school
2 Attending school
3 Attended school, but no more
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="PT01A414"><div class="i1"><span class="em">Question 12 - Are you attending or have ever attended school?</span></div><br /><div class="i2">We admit the following modalities:<br /><br /><span class="em">No, never attended</span> - people that never enrolled in a school or teaching establishment, even if they know how to read and write. Also applies to children that didn't yet reach school age.<br /><br /><span class="em">Attending</span> - to select this option it is not enough to be enrolled in a school. Rather, one has to attend school regularly.<br /><br /><span class="em">Attended, but no more</span> - chooses this option who doesn't attend school anymore, either because one is not enrolled anymore or because he ended the course or quitted school.<br /><br /><span class="em">Note:</span> if the individual never attended an educational institution, he goes to question 16.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's school attendance.
Universe
Portugal 2001: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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