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XII General Population and Housing Census 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Mexico, 2000
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MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), Minnesota Population Center
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Academic level and schooling antecedent (MX2000A_0433)

Data file: MEX2000-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 279
End: 280
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For person five years old or more




17. Educational history

To enter the course of schooling (teaching, technical, commercial or professional) what schooling was a prerequisite? Circle only one answer.


1 Elementary completed
2 Secondary completed
3 Preparatory completed
Categories
Value Category
0 Without any schooling
10 Preschool or kindergarten
20 Primary
30 Secondary
40 College-prep secondary
51 Normal with primary background completed
52 Normal with secondary background completed
61 Technical or commercial school, primary completed
62 Technical or commercial school, secondary completed
63 Technical or commercial school, college-prep secondary completed
73 Professional
80 Master's degree or doctorate
98 Unknown
99 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
17. Scholastic History

When, in question 16, schooling, you have written a quantity in the options for teaching school, technical, commercial, or professional major, ask what studies they had to complete in order to enter into this degree and circle the corresponding code.

If, in order to study in a post-secondary teaching school or in some subject specialty, the prerequisite was basic teaching school, circle code 2. Finished secondary.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's academic level together with the type of schooling needed for admission.
Universe
Persons age 5+

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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