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Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1971 - IPUMS Subset

Austria, 1971
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AUT_1971_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Austrian Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
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Level of highest education completed (AT1971A_EDATTAN2)

Data file: AUT1971_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 162
End: 162
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="AT71A411 AT71A412 AT71A414"><span class="em">11. Successfully completed education:</span><br /><div class="i1">When you have two trained professions, or rather two completed post-secondary studies, the answer is the most important acquired profession or study (in connection with the earliest practiced profession).<br />For [those] under 15 years are excused from answering the question.<br /><br />a) Community college, secondary school, special school, polytechnic training?<br />[] Yes<br /><br />b) Have you successfully completed a final examination for general, sales clerk [customer service] (chamber of commerce), or skilled laborer certificate?<br />[] Yes<br />In which profession? ________<br /><br />c) Have you completed a Technical College (= school without <span class="lang">Matura</span>)? (e.g. trade school, school for hotel management, electrical engineering school, etc. Attention: "vocational school" is not to be noted here; that belongs to teaching education, Question 11b).<br />[] Yes<br />Which? ________<br /><br />d) Have you completed a middle school, high school (=schools with <span class="lang">Matura</span>), academy or college?<br />[] Yes<br />Type of school: ________<br />Area of Study (Major, Concentration): ________<br /><br />Which graduation certificate have you achieved? (Please give all)<br />[] School leaving examination [<span class="lang">Matura</span>], high school diploma [<span class="lang">Abitur</span>]<br />[] <span class="lang">Absolutorium</span>, 3rd State test, Masters<br />[] Teaching profession for secondary schools<br />[] College diploma<br />[] Doctorate<br />[] Other college completion<br /><br />Acquired in year: [space provided for each of the preceding options]</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 University, college
2 Non-university education at the 3rd level
3 Higher vocational school
4 Higher general secondary school
5 Intermediate vocational school
6 Apprenticeship
7 Compulsory secondary school
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's level of highest education completed.
Universe
Austria 1971: Persons age 15+ [discrepancies: none]

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