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Demographic and Health Survey 1995 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1995
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UGA_1995_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Statistics Department, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Man's summary educational achievement (M_EDACHIEVERMN)

Data file: UGA1995-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 376
End: 376
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
9) IF ATTENDED SCHOOL: What is the highest level of school (NAME) attended? What is the highest grade (NAME) completed at the level?

LEVEL
GRADE

CODES FOR QUESTION 9

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

1 PRIMARY
2 JUNIOR
3 SECONDARY
4 UNIVERSITY
8 DOES NOT KNOW

GRADE:

1
2
3
4 [for all except junior]
5 [for all except junior]
6 [for primary and secondary only]
7 [for primary only]
8 DOES NOT KNOW
Categories
Value Category
0 No education
1 Incomplete primary
2 Complete primary
3 Incomplete secondary
4 Complete secondary
5 Higher
6 Other
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
EDACHIEVERMN (MV149) is a summary variable that reports the man's highest level of education in broad categories. Countries vary in the gradations of their school systems, but EDACHIEVERMN is a standardized variable providing the level of education in six categories:

No education,
Incomplete primary
Complete primary
Incomplete secondary
Complete secondary
Higher


EDACHIEVERMN is constructed from information contained in EDUCLVLMN (MV106) and YRSCHLMN (MV107).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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