Intercensal Survey 2015 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2015

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Reference ID

MEX_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS

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Literacy (MX2015A_LIT)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 249

End: 249

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

[Continue if the person is 5 or more years old]</p>

<p>23. Literacy
<br />Does [the respondent] know how to read and write a note?
<br />[Circle one code] </p>
<div class="i1">[] 5 Yes <br />[] 7 No</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
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">23. Literacy</span>
<br />This question distinguishes people who know read and write a message. Consider that the person knows how to do that when:</p>
<div class="i1">[] He/she can read and write a message in any language or languages, no matters which ones.<br />[] Because of an accident, sickness, or being elderly he/she cannot read and write but he/she knew or could do it in the past.</div><p>A person cannot read and write if only can write his/her name, some words, numbers, and read advertisements. When the response is "not much", "more or less", or "write with ugly letter", ask whether the person can read and write a complete message to see if he/she is really literate.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person is literate.

Universe

Mexico 2015: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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