IX General Population and Housing Census, 1970 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 1970
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MEX_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Dirección General de Estadística, Secretaría de Industria y Comercio, IPUMS
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- MEX1970_PHC-H-H
- MEX1970_PHC-P-H
Level of schooling (MX1970A_EDLEV1)
Data file: MEX1970_PHC-P-H
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Start:
201
End:
202
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar v="MX70A409 MX70A410 MX70A411 MX70A412 MX70A413"><span class="em">For all persons 6 years old or more </span><br /></svar></p>
<p>9. Level of education</p>
<p>This person passed some year of study?</p>
<div class="i1">[ ] Yes<br />[ ] No</div><p>How many years did the person pass?</p>
<div class="i1">[90] In Elementary School? _____<br />[80] In Secondary School or Prevocational? _____<br />[70] In College Preparatory High School or Vocational? _____<br />In another type of instruction? _____</div>
<p>9. Level of education</p>
<p>This person passed some year of study?</p>
<div class="i1">[ ] Yes<br />[ ] No</div><p>How many years did the person pass?</p>
<div class="i1">[90] In Elementary School? _____<br />[80] In Secondary School or Prevocational? _____<br />[70] In College Preparatory High School or Vocational? _____<br />In another type of instruction? _____</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 00 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 01 | Graduate studies other |
| 02 | Graduate studies assistant |
| 03 | Graduate studies social |
| 04 | Graduate studies technical |
| 05 | Graduate studies sciences |
| 06 | Graduate studies humanities |
| 10 | Professional higher other studies |
| 11 | Professional higher dentistry |
| 12 | Professional higher medicine |
| 13 | Professional higher accounting |
| 14 | Professional higher administration |
| 15 | Professional higher actuarial |
| 16 | Professional higher economics |
| 17 | Professional higher law |
| 18 | Professional higher communications science and journalism |
| 19 | Professional higher social sciences |
| 20 | Professional higher political science and public administration |
| 21 | Professional higher veterinary medicine and zoology |
| 22 | Professional higher chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacy |
| 23 | Professional higher chemical engineering and industrial chemistry |
| 24 | Professional higher industrial design |
| 25 | Professional higher architecture |
| 26 | Professional higher agricultural engineering |
| 27 | Professional higher natural resources exploration and exploitation |
| 28 | Professional higher topography (cartography), geology, hydrology |
| 29 | Professional higher mechanical, electronic, and electrical engineering |
| 30 | Professional higher industrial engineering |
| 31 | Professional higher civil and construction engineering |
| 32 | Professional higher biology |
| 33 | Professional higher physics and astronomy |
| 34 | Professional higher mathematics |
| 35 | Professional higher plastic (visual) arts |
| 36 | Professional higher library and archival sciences |
| 37 | Professional higher arts and literature (humanities) |
| 38 | Professional higher pedagogy (education) |
| 39 | Professional higher psychology |
| 40 | Professional higher anthropology |
| 41 | Professional higher geography |
| 42 | Professional higher history |
| 43 | Professional higher philosophy |
| 44 | Professional secondary others |
| 45 | Professional secondary artistic |
| 46 | Professional secondary assistant |
| 47 | Professional secondary commercial administration |
| 48 | Professional secondary political science, social and information sciences |
| 49 | Professional construction secondary |
| 50 | Professional industrial secondary |
| 51 | Professional sciences secondary |
| 52 | Professional humanities secondary |
| 53 | Other subprofessional |
| 54 | Subprofessional artistic |
| 55 | Subprofessional personal and trourism services |
| 56 | Subprofessional publicity |
| 57 | Subprofessional secretarial |
| 58 | Subprofessional administrative filing |
| 59 | Subprofessional accounting |
| 63 | Other training |
| 64 | Artistic training |
| 65 | Personal and tourism services training |
| 66 | Publicity training |
| 67 | Secretarial training |
| 68 | Administration and filing training |
| 69 | Accounting training |
| 70 | College preparatory high school |
| 71 | Educational subprofessional |
| 72 | Assistant subprofessional |
| 73 | Clinic/sanitarium subprofessional |
| 74 | Nursing subprofessional |
| 75 | Electric, radio and television subprofessional |
| 76 | Industrial subprofessional |
| 77 | Electronics and computer subprofessional |
| 78 | Transportation and communications subprofessional |
| 79 | Agricultural subprofessional |
| 80 | Secondary |
| 81 | Educational training |
| 82 | Assistant training |
| 83 | Clinic/sanitarium training |
| 84 | Nursing training |
| 85 | Electric, radio and television training |
| 86 | Industrial training |
| 87 | Electronics and Computer training |
| 88 | Transportation and communications training |
| 89 | Agricultural training |
| 90 | Primary |
| 91 | Primary |
| 99 | No response |
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 schooling level. Codes 1 through 6 indicate degrees in at graduate level, codes 10 trough 43 indicate undergraduate degrees, codes 44 through 52 indicate post-secondary technical degrees (those requiring 2-3 years of upper secondary or preparatory education), codes 53 through 79 (except for 70, which corresponds to academic secondary school) indicate technical secondary degrees (those requiring 3 years of lower secondary education), and codes 63 trough 89 (except for 80, which corresponds to academic secondary) indicate technical training degrees (requiring 6 years of primary).
Universe
Mexico 1970: Persons age 6+ [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]
concept
Concept