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IIIème Recensement Général de la Population et de l’Habitat 16-30 août 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Rwanda, 2002
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RWA_2002_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère des Finances et de la Planification Economique, Commission Nationale du Recensement, Minnesota Population Center
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Literacy (RW2002A_0422)

Data file: RWA2002-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 220
End: 220
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Population aged 6 years or more
[Questions 16-25.]



P20. Literacy

Does ____ know to read and write?

Circle the code corresponding to the answer of the interviewee.

[] 1. Reads and writes
[] 2. Reads only
[] 3. None
Categories
Value Category
1 Reading and writing
2 Reading only
3 None
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.
Interviewer instructions
C. Questions asked to all residents aged 6 years or more (questions from P16 to P25)



These questions aim at knowing the activities related to education and employment for persons aged 6 years or more [the French text says more than 6 years].

Children aged less than 6 years are not concerned with questions from P16 to P25.




P20: Literacy

This questions concerns mostly the persons who never went to school as well as those who could not complete primary school; to those will be added other persons who know how to read and write after learning by non-conventional means (night sessions, reading and writing training sessions, either collective or individual). In P20 one will ask politely whether he/she knows to read and write.

Circle number "1" if the person knows to read and write
Circle number "2" if the person only knows to read
Circle number "3" if the person does not know to read or write

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the respondent can read and write.
Universe
Non-visitors age 6+

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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