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Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Burundi, 2010
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BDI_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Institut de Statistiques et d’Études Économiques du Burundi (ISTEEBU), Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Lutte contre le Sida [Burundi] (MSPLS), et ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Literacy, based on reading passage (W_LIT2)

Data file: BDI2010-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 547
End: 548
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
108) Now I would like you to read this sentence to me.

SHOW CARD TO RESPONDENT.

IF RESPONDENT CANNOT READ WHOLE SENTENCE, PROBE: Can you read any part of the sentence to me?

CANNOT READ AT ALL 1
ABLE TO READ ONLY PART OF SENTENCE 2
ABEL TO READ WHOLE SENTENCE 3
NO CARD WITH REQUIRED LANGUAGE (SPECIFY LANGUAGE) 4
BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED 5
Categories
Value Category
00 Cannot read at all
10 Reads
11 Able to read only part of sentence
12 Able to read whole sentence
20 Not ascertained (blind, diff. language)
21 No card with required language
22 Blind or visually impaired
98 Missing
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
LIT2 (V155) indicates whether the woman could read. This variable is available beginning with Phase 4 of the DHS.

Persons with less than secondary school education were asked to demonstrate their literacy level by reading aloud a sentence on a card and were classified as "cannot read at all," "able to read only parts of sentence," and "able to read whole sentence." As with LIT1 (V108), those with secondary or higher schooling were presumed to have attained the highest literacy level.

For Phases 1-3 of the DHS, information on literacy was collected using a different approach, by simply asking whether the person could read (LIT1). 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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