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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Highest year of education in level (W_YRSCHL)

Data file: ZAF1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 491
End: 492
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
109 What is the highest (standard/year) you completed?

LESS THAN ONE YEAR COMPLETED 00
SUB A/CLASS 1 71
SUB B/CLASS 2 72
STANDARD 1 01
STANDARD 2 02
STANDARD 3 03
STANDARD 4 04
STANDARD 5 05
STANDARD 6 06
STANDARD 7 07
STANDARD 8 08
STANDARD 9 09
STANDARD 10 10
FURTHER STUDIES INCOMPLETE 11
DIPLOMA/OTHER POSTSCHOOLCOMPLETE 12
FURTHER DEGREE COMPLETE 13
Categories
Value Category
00 0
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
19 19
96 Inconsistent
97 Don't know
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
For women who ever attended school, YRSCHL (V107) reports the number of years of education completed at the highest level of schooling achieved (primary, secondary, or higher), as reported in EDUCLVL (V106). See Comparability.

For the woman's total years of education, see EDYRTOTAL (V133).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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