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Population and Family Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Jordan, 2012
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JOR_2012_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Department of Statistics [Jordan] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Summary educational achievement (W_EDACHIEVER)

Data file: JOR2012-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 529
End: 529
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
105. What is the highest level of school you attended: Old elementary, old preparatory, old secondary, new basic, new secondary, intermediate diploma, bachelor, or higher?

OLD SYSTEM

ELEMENTARY 1
PREPARATORY 2
SECONDARY 3

NEW SYSTEM

BASIC 4
SECONDARY 5
INTERMEDIATE DIPLOMA 6

BACHELOR 7
HIGHER 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No education
1 Incomplete primary
2 Complete primary
3 Incomplete secondary
4 Complete secondary
5 Higher
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
EDACHIEVER (V149) is a summary variable that reports the woman's highest level of education in broad categories. Countries vary in the gradations of their school systems, but EDACHIEVER is a standardized variable providing the level of education in six categories: No education, Incomplete primary, Complete primary, Incomplete secondary, Complete secondary, and Higher.

EDACHIEVER is constructed from information contained in EDUCLVL (V106) and YRSCHL (V107).

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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