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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1999
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NGA_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Reported literacy (C_LIT1)

Data file: NGA1999-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 453
End: 454
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
114. Can you read and understand a letter or newspaper easily, with difficulty, or not at all?

EASILY 1
WITH DIFFICULTY 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 116)
Categories
Value Category
00 Cannot read
10 Reads
11 Reads with difficulty
12 Reads easily
98 Missing
99 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
LIT1 (V108) indicates whether the woman could read. This information was obtained in response to the question, "Can you read a letter or newspaper easily, with difficulty, or not at all?" In many countries, persons with secondary or higher levels of schooling were presumed to "read easily," but coding criteria varied across countries. Simply asking women whether and how easily they could read was the approach used to determine literacy in DHS Phases 1-3.

Beginning in Phase 4, a different approach was employed to determine literacy. See LIT2 (V155) for details about that second approach, which involved having the respondent read a sentence aloud. See LITBRIG for information about using the data on literacy across all phases of the DHS.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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