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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Highest year of education (South Africa) (M_YRSCHLMNZA)

Data file: ZAF2016-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 477
End: 478
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
00 No education
10 Less than 1 year primary completed
11 Grade 1/Sub A/Class 1
12 Grade 2/Sub B/Class 2
13 Grade 3/Standard 1/AET 1 (KHA RI GUDE, SANLI)
14 Grade 4/Standard 2
15 Grade 5/Standard 3/AET 2
16 Grade 6/Standard 4
17 Grade 7/Standard 5/AET 3
20 Less than 1 year secondary school completed
21 Grade 8/Standard 6/Form 1/NTC 1/N1/NC (V) Level 2
22 Grade 9/Standard 7/Form 2/AET 4/NTC 2/N2/NC (V) Level 3
23 Grade 10/Standard 8/Form 3/NTC 3/N3/NC (V) Level 4
24 Grade 11/Standard 9/Form 4
25 Certificate or Diploma with less than Grade 12/Standard 10 completed
26 Grade 12/Standard 10/Form 5/MATRIC
27 N4/NTC 4
28 N5/NTC 5
29 N6/NTC 6
30 Further studies incomplete or ongoing
31 Certificate or diploma with Grade 12/Standard 10 completed
32 Higher diploma (Technikon/University of technology)
33 Post higher diploma (Technikon/University of technolgy masters, doctoral)
34 Bachelors degree/Bachelors degree and post graduate diploma
35 Honours degree
36 Higher degree (masters, doctorate)
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
YRSCHLMNZA reports the highest class or year of education the male respondent completed, according to the South African education system. This variable is country-specific to South Africa.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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