Population Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996

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Reference ID

EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

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Literate (EG1996A_0409)

Data file: EGY1996-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 155

End: 155

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

7. Educational status or last educational certificate
[Question 7 was asked of persons 10 years and over.]

[] 1 Under age
[] 2 Illiterate
[] 3 Read and write (literate)
[] 4 Certificate

Categories

Value	Category
1	Illiterate
2	Read and write without certificate
3	Read and write with certificate
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

The educational status or the name of the highest certificate column No.(7)
For the person less than (10) years fill in ink the circle in front of No.(1) and as for the person (10) years and over fill in ink the circle:

In front of No.(2) for the illiterate
In front of No.(3) for those who read and write but, they have no certificate

Those who read and write and having an educational certificate write in front of the word highest certificate, the certificate that the person has got.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person is literate or not.

Universe

Persons age 10+

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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