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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1998
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CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Ministère des Investissements Publics et de l’Aménagement du Territoire [Cameroon] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Educational attainment (H_EDSUMM)

Data file: CMR1998-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 257
End: 257
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
9) EDUCATION: IF ATTENDED SCHOOL
What is the highest level of education that (NAME) attended?
What was the highest grade that he or she completed at this level?

LEVEL:

NURSERY SCHOOL 0
PRIMARY 1
SECONDARY 2
HIGHER 3
DK 8

GRADE:

NURSERY SCHOOL

IN ALL CASES 1

PRIMARY

LESS THAN ONE YEAR 0
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
DK 8

SECONDARY

LESS THAN ONE YEAR 0
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
DK 8

HIGHER


LESS THAN ONE YEAR 0
1ST YEAR 1
2ND YEAR 2
3RD YEAR 3
4TH+ YEAR 4
DK 8
Categories
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
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.

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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