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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2011
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CMR_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, Ministère de la Santé Publique [Cameroon] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Literacy, based on reading passage (B_LIT2)

Data file: CMR2011-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 609
End: 610
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
108) Now, I would like you to read aloud this sentence to me: read as much as you can.

SHOW CARD TO RESPONDENT.

IF RESPONDENT CAN NOT READ THE PHRASE, PROBE:

Can you read any part of the sentence?

CANNOT READ AT ALL 1 (GO TO 110)
CAN READ SOME PARTS 2
CAN READ THE WHOLE SENTENCE 3
NO CARD IN THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN (SPECIFY LANGUAGE): ___ 4
BLIND/PROBLEMS WITH VISION 5 (GO TO 110)
Categories
Value Category
00 Cannot read at all
10 Reads
11 Able to read only part of sentence
12 Able to read whole sentence
20 Not ascertained (blind, diff. language)
21 No card with required language
22 Blind or visually impaired
98 Missing
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
LIT2 (V155) indicates whether the woman could read. This variable is available beginning with Phase 4 of the DHS.

Persons with less than secondary school education were asked to demonstrate their literacy level by reading aloud a sentence on a card and were classified as "cannot read at all," "able to read only parts of sentence," and "able to read whole sentence." As with LIT1 (V108), those with secondary or higher schooling were presumed to have attained the highest literacy level.

For Phases 1-3 of the DHS, information on literacy was collected using a different approach, by simply asking whether the person could read (LIT1). See LITBRIG for information about using the data on literacy across all phases of the DHS.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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