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5th Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

South Sudan, 2008
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SSD_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Evaluation and Statistics, IPUMS
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Literacy (SS2008A_LIT)

Data file: SSD2008_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 222
End: 222
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="SS08A430 SS08A431 SS08A432 SS08A433 SS08A530 SS08A531 SS08A532 SS08A533"><span class="em">Education status</span><br />[Questions 15 - 18: Persons age 6 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="SS08A430 SS08A530">15. Can [the respondent] read and write with understanding a simple sentence in any language?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person is literate.
Universe
South Sudan 2008: Persons age 6+ [discrepancies: none]

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