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Population and Housing Census 2010 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2010
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MEX_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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School attendance (MX2010A_SCHOOL)

Data file: MEX2010_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 280
End: 280
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">III. Personal characteristics</span></p>

<p>Now I am going to ask you about (name): ________
<br />Copy the name of the person from section II</p>

<p><svar v="MX10A431 MX10A432 MX10A433 MX10A434 MX10A435 MX10A436 MX10A437 MX10A438 MX10A439 MX10A440 MX10A441 MX10A442"><span class="em">For persons age 3 or older</span><br />[Questions 12-20 were asked of persons age 3 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX10A437">17. Attendance<br />Does [the respondent] currently attend school?<br /><div class="i1">Circle only one code.<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 3 No</div><br /></svar>
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="h3">6.5 Section III. Characteristics of the people</span></p>

<p>In this section the information of the people who inhabit the dwelling, like the sex, age, level of studies, income, among others, is obtained.</p>

<p>Before requesting the information for each person, copy all the names in the spaces designated for them, and for each person start with the phrase: "Now I'm going to ask about (mention the name of the person you previously noted)", so that the informer knows about whom you will be asking the information.</p>

<p><svar v="MX10A431 MX10A432 MX10A433 MX10A434 MX10A435 MX10A436 MX10A437 MX10A438 MX10A439 MX10A440 MX10A441 MX10A442"><span class="em">For people age 3 or older.</span><br />[Questions 12-20 are for persons age 3 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX10A437"><span class="em">17. School attendance</span><br />Consider that the person attends school when he/she is enrolled and goes as a student or pupil to some education center like:<br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Preschool, elementary school, middle school, high school, technical or commercial school, as well as remote middle school or remote high school.</li>

<li>Professional (university, technology institute, teacher training college, among others), masters or doctorate (graduate).</li>

<li>Open education or education for adults (except literacy classes).</li>
</ul><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 102]</span><br /><br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Courses taken via the Internet, at the undergraduate degree or its equivalent, masters, or doctorate.</li>
</ul><br /><br />Consider that the person doesn't go to school when:<br /><ul class="b1">
<li>He/she only goes to classes to learn to read and write (literacy).</li>

<li>Takes classes to learn a trade or craft such as sewing, beauty, electricity, computation, music, among others.</li>
</ul><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable records the respondent's current school attendance.
Universe
Mexico 2010: Persons age 3+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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