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

Mexico, 2000
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MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Academic level and schooling antecedent (MX2000A_EDLEV2)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 315
End: 316
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="MX00A429 MX00A430 MX00A431 MX00A432 MX00A433 MX00A434 MX00A435 MX00A436">For person five years old or more<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX00A431 MX00A433">17. Educational history<br /><br />To enter the course of schooling (teaching, technical, commercial or professional) what schooling was a prerequisite? Circle only one answer.<br /><br /><div class="i1">1 Elementary completed<br />2 Secondary completed<br />3 Preparatory completed</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 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
<svar a="all" v="MX00A431 MX00A433"><span class="em">17. Scholastic History</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's academic level together with the type of schooling needed for admission.
Universe
Mexico 2000: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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