Population, Housing and Establishment Census 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1996

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EGY_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, IPUMS

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Literate (EG1996A_LIT)

Data file: EGY1996_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 185

End: 185

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="EG96A081 EG96A082 EG96A409 EG96A410"><span class="em">7. Educational status or last educational certificate </span><br />[Question 7 was asked of persons 10 years and over.]<br /><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Under age<br />[] 2 Illiterate<br />[] 3 Read and write (literate)<br />[] 4 Certificate</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
1	Illiterate
2	Read and write without certificate
3	Read and write with certificate
8	Unknown
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.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person is literate or not.

Universe

Egypt 1996: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies: none]

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Concept

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