XII General Population and Housing Census, 2000 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2000

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Reference ID

MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS

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Sep 29, 2011

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School attendance (MX2000A_ATTEND)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 303

End: 303

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="MX00A420 MX00A421 MX00A422 MX00A423 MX00A424 MX00A425 MX00A426 MX00A427">Ask only if this person is five years old or more </svar>

<svar a="all" v="MX00A427">14. Attendance Does this person go to school? Circle only one answer. <div class="i1">1 Yes [1] (Continue with question number 16) 2 No [2]</div> </svar>

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Yes, attends school
2	Does not attend school
9	Not specified

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

<svar a="all" v="MX00A427">14. School Attendance If the person goes to school to study in any of the following educational levels: preschool, primary, secondary, preparatory or high school, technical or commercial school, professional (university, technological, school for teachers, among others), masters or doctorate (post-graduate), or rather, to the open school system, or adult education, consider them as attending school. If they go to courses for literacy (only to learn to read and write), beauty, carpentry, handicrafts, etc., consider them as not attending school. </svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person currently attends school.

Universe

Mexico 2000: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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