Third General Census of Population and Housing 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, Minnesota Population Center

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Ever attended school (CM2005A_0497)

Data file: CMR2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 265

End: 265

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Persons over 3 years of age
[Questions 21 through 26 were asked of persons 3 years of age and older.]

21. Has the person been to school?

[Question 21 was asked of persons 3 years of age and older.]

English

[] Yes
[] No

French

[] Yes
[] No

Categories

Value	Category
1	English and French
2	French
3	English
4	Other system
5	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

21. Previous school attendance
This question related to this variable is only for people aged 3 years and older.

School attendance refers to attendance in a public or private (secular or religious) educational establishment, to be a regular student at any level and during a specifically determined period of time.

-First ask the surveyed person if they have already been to school:

Q. Have you/has ______ already been to school?
If the answer is yes,

-Ask in what system and mark the code corresponding to the answer provided.

Codes for the terms of this variable are as follows:

1-French and English
2-French
3-English
4-Other system
5-Never been to school

If the answer to this question is No,

-Mark code ?5' and go to Q 27

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if a person has ever attended school.

Universe

Persons age 3+

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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