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1990 Housing and Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 1990
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MUS_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS
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School attendance (MU1990A_SCHOOL)

Data file: MUS1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 248
End: 248
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
In strict confidence
<br />Ministry of Economic Planning and Development
<br />Central Statistical Office
<br /><span class="h1"><br />Population Census<br />Mauritius<br /></span>
<br /><span class="em">Night of 1-2 July 1990</span></p>

<p><span class="em">For persons aged 2 years and over:</span></p>

<p>20 School attendance ____</p>
<div class="i1">If now attending school (including pre-primary), college or university full-time, write 'now'.<br />If has attended school in the past, write 'past'.<br />If never attended school, write 'never'.</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Currently attending
2 Attended in the past
3 Never attended
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">Stop at column 18 for children under 2 years of age<br />Note that columns 19-21 are for persons aged 2 years and over</span></p>

<p><span class="h2">Column 20</span>
<br /><span class="h3">School attendance</span>
<br />For every person aged 2 years and above, write as appropriate:</p>
<div class="i1"><span class="em">Now</span> - for a person who is now attending school fulltime, whether it is a preprimary, primary or secondary school, a university or a vocational or technical school.<br /><span class="em">Past</span> - for a person who has attended school, college, university, vocational or technical school in the past.<br /><span class="em">Never</span> - for a person who has never attended school, even if he or she has obtained educational qualifications.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the person is currently attending school.
Universe
Mauritius 1990: Persons age 2+ [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 0.7%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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