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National Population, Family, and Housing Census, 1970 - IPUMS Subset

Argentina, 1970
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ARG_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Argentine National Institue of Statistics and Censuses, IPUMS
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Current school attendance (AR1970A_SCHOOL)

Data file: ARG1970_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 196
End: 196
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Educational Characteristics -- For all individuals five years of age and older</span>
<br /><svar v="AR70A412 AR70A413 AR70A414 AR70A415">[Questions 9-12 are asked of persons 5 years of age and older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="AR70A412" v="AR70A412 AR70A414">9. Do you or did you attend any educational institution?<br /><div class="i1">Ask each question each time in the order given (Currently attending? Not attending, but used to attend? etc.), and upon receiving an affirmative response, mark the appropriate box and go on to question number 10.<br /><br />[] 1 Currently attending?<br />[] 2 Not attending, but used to attend?<br />[] 3 Never attended?<br />[] 4 Unanswered</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Currently attending
2 Not currently attending but used to 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
<span class="h2">Educational Characteristics</span></p>

<p><svar v="AR70A412 AR70A413 AR70A414 AR70A415">For all persons five years old and older.<br /></svar></p>

<p>1. We will pass now to examine the item Educational Characteristics of Chapter C-Population.</p>

<p>Here you will note the data for all of the persons five years old and older.</p>

<p>[An example for children to be enumerated is not presented here.]</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="AR70A412">Now let's look at question number 9 of the item Educational Characteristics.<br /><br />We understand as school attendance going to school, at the date of the census, to an official educational establishment, private or public, at the elementary, secondary, university, or other level.<br /><br />They are official educational establishments, for example:<br /><div class="i1">--Teacher's Training School, number 4<br />--Superior Professorship in Biological Sciences<br />--School number 5 of the Educational Center 7<br />--La Salle private school<br />--Post-graduate course in the Medical Faculty</div><br /><br />The Pitman Academy, the Teniente Sewing School, the Lingaphone Institute, etc., are not official educational establishments.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.140]</span><br /><br />2. If the person normally attends an official [educational] establishment, you will mark the box "Attends?" with an x.<br /><br />The son of Mr. Pereira attends the National Business School number 2. Which box would you mark?<br /><div class="i1">[x] 1 Attends?<br />[ ] 2 Does not attend but attended?<br />[ ] 3 Never attended?<br />[ ] 4 Does not know</div><br /><br /><span class="pg">[p.141]</span><br /><br />3. The person who never attended an educational establishment is considered "never attended."<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the current school attendance.
Universe
Argentina 1970: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: Type I trace; Type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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