Demographic and Health Survey 1991 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1991

Reference ID

CMR_1991_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministère du Plan et de l'Aménagement du Territoire (Direction Nationale du Deuxième Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat)[Cameroon] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Educational attainment (H_EDSUMM)

Data file: CMR1991-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 252

End: 252

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

10) EDUCATION:

What is the highest level of school (name) attended?
What is that highest grade (name) completed) at this level?

IF THE LEVEL IS NURSERY SCHOOL, DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING FOR GRADE.

LEVEL

NURSERY SCHOOL 0
PRIMARY 1
HIGHER 2
SUPERIOR 3
DK 4

GRADE

PRIMARY

INFANT/CLASS ONE/SIL 1
STANDARD ONE/CLASS TWO/CP 2
STANDARD TWO/CLASS THREE/CE1 3
STANDARD THREE/CLASS FOUR/CE2 4
STANDARD FOUR/CLASS FIVE/CM1 5
STANDARD FIVE/CLASS SIX/CM2 6
STANDARD SIX/CLASS SEVEN 7

SECONDARY

FORM 1/SIXTH/1ST YEAR 1
FORM 2/FIFTH/2ND YEAR 2
FORM 3/FOURTH/3RD YEAR 3
FORM 4/THIRD/4TH YEAR 4
FORM 5/SECOND 5
LOWER SIXTH FORM/FIRST 6
UPPER SIXTH FORM/FINAL 7

Value	Category
0	No education
1	Incomplete primary
2	Complete primary
3	Incomplete secondary
4	Complete secondary
5	Higher
6	Other
7	Don't know
8	Missing

Description

Definition

EDSUMM (HV109) is a summary variable that reports the household member's highest level of education in broad categories. Countries vary in the gradations of their school systems, but EDSUMM is a standardized variable providing the level of education in six categories: No education, Incomplete primary, Complete primary, Incomplete secondary, Complete secondary, and Higher.

EDSUMM is constructed from information contained in EDLEVEL (HV106) and EDLEVYR (HV107).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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