Home / Central Data Catalog / LSO_2006_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [P]
central

Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2006
Get Microdata
Reference ID
LSO_2006_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Dec 05, 2019
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
4411
Downloads
275

School attendance (LS2006A_SCHOOL)

Data file: LSO2006_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 253
End: 253
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Section D. Education </span>
<br />[For all persons aged 2 years and over.]</p>

<p>21. Has (the respondent) ever attended school?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Never attended (probe for more information)<br />[] 2 Still attending <br />[] 3 Left school <br />[] NA not applicable</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 No, never attended
2 Yes, still attending
3 Left school
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
<span class="h2">Part D of the Questionnaire </span>
<br />For persons aged 2 years and over</p>

<p>90. Column 21: Full-time school attendance has (name) ever attended School?</p>
<div class="i1">Please code according to list. For all children under the age of 2 years enter code 8.<br />For those aged 2 years and over<br /> Code 1 for persons who have never at any time attended received full-time education,<br /> Code 2 for persons still attending and receiving full-time education at the time of the census (still attending). Code 3 for persons who have ever received a full-time education in the past and are no longer receiving it. (Left school)</div><span class="pg">[pg.21]</span>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates if the person is attending school.
Universe
Lesotho 2006: Persons age 2+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
Back to Catalog