IHSN Survey Catalog
  • Home
  • Microdata Catalog
  • Citations
  • Login
    Login
    Home / Central Data Catalog / GHA_2008_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [H]
central

Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
Get Microdata
Reference ID
GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
114565
  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Get Microdata
  • Data files
  • GHA2008-B.dat
  • GHA2008-C.dat
  • GHA2008-H.dat
  • GHA2008-M.dat
  • GHA2008-W.dat

Total years of education (previous school year) (H_EDYEARSPREV)

Data file: GHA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 391
End: 392
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
28. During that school year, what level and grade did (NAME) attend? SEE CODES BELOW.

LEVEL___

GRADE____
Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
19 19
20 20
21 21
96 Inconsistent
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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
EDYEARSPREV (HV128) reports the household member's education in single years during the previous school year. Household members who were not in school the previous year are coded as "0." See EDYEARS (HV108) for more information on the construction of EDYEARSPREV.

The related variable EDYEARSNOW (HV124) reports the household member's education in single years during the current school year.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog
IHSN Survey Catalog

© IHSN Survey Catalog, All Rights Reserved.