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National Population and Housing Census 1978 - IPUMS Subset

Poland, 1978
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POL_1978_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Education (PL1978A_EDATTAIN)

Data file: POL1978_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 139
End: 139
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
11. Education attainment (for persons born in 1963 or earlier one of the education categories should be written in) ____</p>
<div class="i1">Higher education completed<br />Higher education not completed - after general education<br />Higher education not completed - after vocational education<br />Post-secondary completed<br />Secondary education completed<br />Secondary education not completed<br />Basic vocational completed<br />Primary education completed<br />Primary education not completed<br />Self-education<br />Reading only<br />Neither writing nor reading</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Higher education completed
2 Higher education not completed and secondary education completed
3 Post-secondary completed and higher education after vocational education not completed
4 Basic vocational completed
5 Primary education completed
6 No education or some primary
8 Unknown
9 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
This variable indicates the person’s level of educational attainment.
Universe
Poland 1978: Persons age 15+ [discrepancies: type I trace; type II 0.3%]

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