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General Population Census VI and Housing IV - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 1985
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URY_1985_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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General Office of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Attends/attended school (UY1985A_SCHOOL)

Data file: URY1985_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 182
End: 182
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="UY85A414 UY85A415 UY85A416 UY85A417 UY85A418 UY85A419"><span class="em">(II) Educational characteristics</span> <br />[Questions 9-14 were asked of persons age 6 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY85A415">10. Do you or did you attend any establishment of regular education?<br /><div class="i1">Mark the corresponding box.<br /><br />[] 1 Attends<br />[] 2 Does not attend but attended<br />[] 3 Never attended</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Attends
2 Attended, does not currently attend
3 Never attended
9 Unknown
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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar v="UY85A414 UY85A415 UY85A416 UY85A417 UY85A418 UY85A419"><span class="h3">II. Educational characteristics -- for persons age 6 or older</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="UY85A415"><div class="i1">Question No. 10 "Do you or did you attend any establishment of regular education?"</div><br /><br />Attendance at educational establishments is understood to be attendance at an establishment of regular, public or private education, in order to systematically study at the primary, secondary, university or other level either in this country or abroad.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 52]</span><br /><br />If a person that you are enumerating tells you that they never attended an educational establishment, do not ask questions 11, 12, 13 and 14; cross them out with a diagonal line and go directly to Chapter III -- Occupational characteristics, if necessary.<br /><br />If you marked attends or does not attend but attended go to question No. 11.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's school attendance status.
Universe
Uruguay 1985: Persons age 6+ [discrepancies: type I none; type II 4.3%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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