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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Currently attending school (DO1981A_SCHOOL)

Data file: DOM1981_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 265

End: 265

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

43. Do you currently attend or did you attend any establishment of regular schooling?</p>
<div class="i1">Currently attending</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Public<br />[] 2 Private<br />[] 3 Not attending but did attend<br />[] 4 Never attended<br />[] 9 Unknown</div>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Attending a public school
2	Attending a private institution
3	Not currently attending but has attended in past
4	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">Question 43:</span> Do you attend a regular educational institution?</p>

<p>(Regular education refers to establishments who give courses in pre-school, elementary, intermediate, secondary, or university)</p>

<p>If the answer is "attends", circle 1 or 2 is filled in, depending if the establishment is public or private.</p>

<p>For those on vacation from school, one of the "attending" options is filled in.</p>

<p>For those courses via Radio or correspondence, such as those by APEC or Radio María, circle 1, 2, or 3 is filled in, according to the case.</p>

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

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person is currently attending school.

Universe

Dominican Republic 1981: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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