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1984 Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1984
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GHA_1984_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, IPUMS
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School attendance (GH1984A_SCHOOL)

Data file: GHA1984_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 121
End: 121
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">Answer only for persons aged 5 years and over</span>
<br />[Question 7 was asked of persons age 5 and older.]</p>

<p>7. Full-time education</p>
<div class="i1">(a) Have you attended or are you attending school now?</div><div class="i2">0 [] Never<br />1 [] Now<br />3 [] Past</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Never enrolled
2 Enrolled now
3 Not enrolled now but was enrolled in the past
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
<span class="em">7. Full-time education.</span></p>

<p>The questions on full-time education are strictly limited, to persons aged five years and over. They refer to full-time education in an educational institution like primary, middle, secondary, commercial or technical school, teacher training college, university or similar type of school where a person spends or has spent at least four hours a day receiving general education in which the emphasis is not on vocational or trade training.</p>

<p>This definition excludes private tuition, correspondence courses, night schools, trade schools such as flair catering, motor driving schools, vocational training schools, etc. It also excludes on-the-job training establishments like productivity institute, auditor-general's training school, agricultural training school, forestry training school, textile training school, draughtsmanship school, military academy, police training school, survey school, labour college, etc. It also excludes ungraded schools like nurseries and the Arabic schools where nothing but the reading and writing of the Koran is taught. This does not mean that schools where Arabic is taught should automatically be excluded because there are recognized schools where Arabic and other subjects are taught.</p>

<p>1a. Have you attended or are you attending school now?</p>

<p>Three boxes marked never, past, now, are provided for this question and you should mark a cross in only one of them.</p>
<div class="i1">(a) Never- Mark a cross in this box if the person has never at any time received full-time education.<br />(b) Past- Mark a cross in this box if the person received full-time education in the past and is no longer receiving it.<br />(c) Now- Mark a cross in this box if the person is still receiving full-time education at the time of the Census.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the respondent attends school or has ever attended school.
Universe
Ghana 1984: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: type I 1.4%; type II 35.2%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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