Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Nigeria, 2013

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NGA_2013_DHS_v01_M

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National Population Commission (NPC)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Jun 30, 2014

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Literacy (v155)

Data file: REC11

Overview

Valid: 38948

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 35

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	Cannot read at all	17186	44.1%
1	Able to read only parts of sentence	2616	6.7%
2	Able to read whole sentence	18831	48.3%
3	No card with required language	105	0.3%
4	Blind/visually impaired	22	0.1%
9		188	0.5%

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.

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Notes

Literacy. Whether a respondent who attended primary schooling can read a whole or part of a sentence showed. A respondent who attended secondary education or higher are coded 2 as well as respondent who could read a whole sentence.

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