Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Nigeria, 2013

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Reference ID

NGA_2013_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

National Population Commission (NPC)

Collection(s)

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

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Literacy (mv155)

Data file: MREC11

Overview

Valid: 17359

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 35

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Cannot read at all	4041	23.3%
1	Able to read only parts of sentence	1609	9.3%
2	Able to read whole sentence	11595	66.8%
3	No card with required language	14	0.1%
4	Blind/visually impaired	8	0%
9		92	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 - The respondent is asked to read a written sentence and the interviewer would note whether the respondent could read it or not at all.

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