Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1992

Reference ID

NER_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique et des Comptes Nationaux, Direction Générale du Plan, Ministère des Finances et du Plan [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Educational attainment (H_EDSUMM)

Data file: NER1992-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 256

End: 256

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	No education
1	Incomplete primary
2	Complete primary
3	Incomplete secondary
4	Complete secondary
5	Higher
6	Other
7	Don't know
8	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

EDSUMM (HV109) is a summary variable that reports the household member's highest level of education in broad categories. Countries vary in the gradations of their school systems, but EDSUMM is a standardized variable providing the level of education in six categories: No education, Incomplete primary, Complete primary, Incomplete secondary, Complete secondary, and Higher.

EDSUMM is constructed from information contained in EDLEVEL (HV106) and EDLEVYR (HV107).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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