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Censos Nacionales IX de Población y V de Vivienda 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Costa Rica, 2000
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CRI_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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School attendance (CR2000A_SCHOOL)

Data file: CRI2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 219
End: 219
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions 9 - 12 are] For those 5 years of age and older</p>

<p><span class="em">10. Does ____ attend preschool, primary school, high school, or university?</span><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Yes
2 No
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
<svar v="CR00A414 CR00A415 CR00A416 CR00A417 CR00A418 CR00A419 CR00A438"><span class="h3">Second Block:<br /><br />Only for persons 5 years old or older</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CR00A416"><span class="em">Question 10: Attendance at Centers of Regular Education</span><br /><br />With this question an estimation of the access of the population to regular education is meant to be obtained.<br /><br />[To the right of the text is a form.]<br /><br /><span class="em">Regular education</span>: It is understood to be kindergarten or preparatory, primary school, secondary school, school of special education, associate degree (<span class="lang">parauniversitaria</span>) or university, public or private. In the case of associate degrees they are only considered regular education if the study they belong to a program directed at obtaining a <span class="em">degree of diploma</span>, of two to three years of duration and that has as a requisite having graduated from the secondary level.<br /><br />On the contrary, do not include within the regular education those institutes that prepare the student to obtain a high school diploma by experience/maturity (<span class="lang">bachillerato por madurez</span>), or for the passing of secondary years through exams, nor any other open system of education. Also do not consider the attendance at non-regular centers of education like the INA and schools for commercial training or for computers, that teach short courses.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the respondent attended school at the time of the census.
Universe
Costa Rica 2000: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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