Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009

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Reference ID

LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Literacy, based on reading passage) (M_LIT2MN)

Data file: LSO2009-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 492

End: 493

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

IF AGE 5-24 YEARS
CURRENT/RECENT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
(20) Did (NAME) attend school at any time during the 2009 school year?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT LINE)

Categories

Value	Category
00	Cannot read at all
10	Reads
11	Able to read only parts of sentence
12	Able to read whole sentence
20	Not ascertained (blind, different language)
21	No card with required language
22	Blind or visually impaired
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

LIT2MN (MV155) indicates whether the man could read.

Persons with less than secondary school education were asked to demonstrate their literacy level by reading aloud a sentence on a card and were classified as "cannot read at all," "able to read only parts of sentence," and "able to read whole sentence." Those with secondary or higher schooling were presumed to have attained the highest literacy level.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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