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Intercensal Survey 2015 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2015
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MEX_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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  • MEX2015_PHC-H-H.dat
  • MEX2015_PHC-P-H.dat

School attendance (MX2015A_SCHOOL)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 232
End: 232
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
17. School attendance
<br />Does [the respondent] currently attend school?
<br />[Circle one code]</p>
<div class="i1">[] 5 Yes<br />[] 7 No [skip to question 22]</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">17. School Attendance</span>
<br />This question identifies the population that is enrolled in a school in the educational system or its equivalent and regularly attends it.</p>

<p>[Figures are omitted]</p>

<p>Consider that the person attends school when he/she is registered in:</p>
<div class="i1">[] Preschool or kindergarten, elementary, middle, high school, technical or commercial studies, as well as tele-secondary and tele-high school.<br />[] Tertiary education (university, technological, normal, among others), master, specialty, or doctoral (postgraduate).<br />[] Open education or adult education at basic level (except literacy classes).<br />[] Distance learning classes and online, either because the person is taking undergraduate level courses or courses from master's or doctorate.</div><p>Records that the person does not attend school when:</p>
<div class="i1">[] He/she only goes to classes to learn to read and write (literacy).<br />[] He/she takes courses to learn a trade or craft, such as: sewing and dressmaking, hairstyling and beauty, electricity, computer studies, music, among others.</div><p>When the answer is "yes", proceed to question 18 "Municipality of school attended". Otherwise, go to question 22 "Schooling".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person attends school.
Universe
Mexico 2015: Persons age 3+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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