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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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Reason for leaving school (MX2000A_WHYLEAV)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 304
End: 305
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
For persons five to twenty-nine years old</p>

<p>15. Reasons for dropping out of school</p>

<p>What was the main reason that this person stopped going to school? Circle only one answer.</p>
<div class="i1">0 Has never gone to school (Continue with question number 19)<br />1 Didn't want to or didn't like to study<br />2 Lack of money or had to work<br />3 Got married or formed a consensual union<br />4 School was very far away or there was no school<br />5 Family did not allow this person to study or because he or she had to help in the household activities<br />6 Finished studies<br />7 Other reason<br /><div class="i2">_____Write the reason</div></div>
Categories
Value Category
00 Has never attended school
01 Did not want to attend or did not like to study
02 Lack of money or needed to work
03 Married or formed a consensual union
04 The school was very far away or nonexistent
05 Her/his family would not permit it because s/he was needed to do household tasks
06 Finished studies
07 Other reason
08 Undocumented
09 Not specified
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="MX00A428"><span class="em">15. Reason for Leaving School</span><br /><br />This question is only for those people, ages 5 to 29, who do not currently go to school.<br /><br />Ask the principal reason for which a person between the ages of 5 and 29 left school and did not continue their studies.<br /><br />When the person has never gone to school, circle code 0 and go on to question 19. Religion. Any other cause that does not match one of the options should be written out on the line Other reason.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the reason for leaving school.
Universe
Mexico 2000: Persons age 5 to 29 not attending school [discrepancies: type I 0.29%; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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