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VI National Population and Housing Census, 1981 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 1981
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DOM_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
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Attending or attended vocational school (DO1981A_EDVOC)

Data file: DOM1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 271
End: 271
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">For individuals 10 years of age and older</span>[Applies to questions 48-50.]</p>

<p>48. Do you currently attend or did you attend any center of vocational, technical, or commercial training?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Attending<br />[] 2 Not attending but did attend<br />[] 3 Never attended<br />[] 9 Unknown</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Attending
2 Not currently attending but has attended in past
3 Never attended
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="em">For persons 10 years of age or older</span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 48:</span> Does the person, or did the person, attend a vocational, technical, or commercial educational institution?</p>

<p>The alternatives are read in the indicated order and the corresponding circle is filled in.</p>

<p>Note: For those taking correspondence courses, circle 1 -- "attending" -- is filled in or circle 2 -- "not attending but did attend" -- is filled in if the correspondence course was previously taken.</p>

<p>Questions 49 and 50 are only presented to those who answered "attending or not attending but did attend" in question 48.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person has attended or is currently attending a vocational school.
Universe
Dominican Republic 1981: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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