General Population Census VIII, Homes IV and Housing VI - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 2011

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URY_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS

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Literacy (UY2011A_LIT)

Data file: URY2011_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 265

End: 265

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For people 10 years or older that never attended, attend, or took classes in Special Elementary School and passed 3 years of Basic Elementary School:

26. Does [the respondent] know how to read and write? (PerEd08)<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes [] 2 No</div>

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Yes
2	No
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

Does he/she know how to read and write?

This question is aimed towards people 10 years of age or older that never attended an education center and that attend/attended and have a level of education equal to or less than three years of elementary school or attend/attended a Special Elementary School.

The objective is to investigate the literacy of the population.
<ul class="b1">
<li>Select "yes" if the person knows how to read and write (both) at least one complete paragraph.</li>

<li>Select "no" if the person responds that he/she only knows to write or only knows to read, or neither.</li>
</ul>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if the person is literate.

Universe

Uruguay 2011: Persons age 10+ [discrepancies: type I none; type II 0.7%]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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