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1980 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1980
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USA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Educational attainment recode (US1980A_EDUCREC)

Data file: USA1980_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 283
End: 283
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v=" US80A446 US80A447"><span class="em">9. What is the highest grade (or year) of regular school this person has ever attended? </span><br /><div class="i1">Fill one circle. If now attending school, mark grade person is in. If high school was finished by equivalency test (GED), mark "12."<br /><br />Highest grade attended:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] Nursery school<br />[] Kindergarten</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">Elementary through high school (grade or year)</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1<br />[] 2<br />...<br />[] 12</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">College (academic year)</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1<br />[] 2<br />...<br />[] 8 or more</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] Never attended school -- Skip question 10</div><br /><br />[Fill only one circle. Mark the highest grade ever attended even if the person did not finish it. If the person is still in school, mark the grade in which now enrolled. Schooling received in foreign or ungraded schools should be reported as the equivalent grade or year in the regular American school system. If uncertain whether a Head Start program is for nursery school or kindergarten, mark the circle for nursery school.<br />If the person skipped or repeated grades, mark the highest grade ever attended regardless of how long it took to get there. Persons who did not attend any college but who completed high school by finishing the 12th grade or by passing an equivalency test, such as the General Educational Development (GED) examination, should fill the circle for the 12th grade.]<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 None or preschool
2 Grade 1 , 2 , 3 , or 4
3 Grade 5 , 6 , 7 , or 8
4 Grade 9
5 Grade 10
6 Grade 11
7 Grade 12
8 1 to 3 years of college
9 4 years of college
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
This variable indicates education attainment by combining two IPUMS variables, HIGRADE (highest grade of schooling) and EDUC99 (Educational attainment, 1990) that measure educational attainment in different ways.
Universe
United States 1980: Persons age 3+ [discrepancies: type I: 0.2%, type II: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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