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Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005
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CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Educational sector (CM2005A_EDSECT)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 312
End: 312
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CM05A436 CM05A497 CM05A498 CM05A499 CM05A500 CM05A501 CM05A502"><span class="h3">Persons over 3 years of age</span><br /> [Questions 21 through 26 were asked of persons 3 years of age and older.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CM05A500">24. Sector of educational institution<br />What sector of educational institution is the person attending?<br /><div class="i1">[Question 24 was asked of persons 3 years of age and older who reported currently attending a school.]<br />[] 1 - Public<br />[] 2 - Denominational<br />[] 3 - Non-denominational</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Public
2 Private denominational
3 Private non-denominational
8 Unknown
9 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.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="CM05A500"><span class="em">24. Education sector (Type of education)</span><br />In Cameroon, there are three sectors of education:<br /><div class="i1">1- The public sector comprises of the establishments belonging to the State and under the authority if the State;<br />2- The religious private sector comprises of establishments belonging to religious organizations<br />3- The secular private sector comprises establishments belonging to individuals</div><br /><br />Q. What education sector did you/did ______ attend?<br /><div class="i1">-Mark in the designated space the code of the education sector of the surveyed person in the space reserved (1 = public, 2 = religious private, 3 = secular private)</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the education sector that a person attended.
Universe
Cameroon 2005: Persons age 3+ currently attend or ever attended school [discrepancies: type I none; type II 0 .8%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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