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STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)

Lao PDR, 2012
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Reference ID
LAO_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/vya4-1g50
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World Bank
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The STEP Skills Measurement Program
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Jun 30, 2014
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Why did you choose technical/vocational training? (m2_q11a)

Data file: STEP Laos_working

Overview

Valid: 430
Invalid: 2415
Maximum: 7
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 332
End: 332
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 7
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Module 2: Education

11a) Why did you choose technical/vocational training instead of unversity?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 COULD NOT GET INTO UNIVERSITY 22
5.1%
2 COULD NOT AFFORD GOING TO UNIVERSITY 27
6.3%
3 EXPECTATIONS OF HIGHER PAY / HIGHER AVAILABILITY OF JOBS 8
1.9%
4 UNIVERSITY TOO FAR AWAY 16
3.7%
5 PROVIDED OPPORTUNITY TO GET WORK FASTER 26
6%
6 LIKE THE FIELDS OF STUDY OFFERED 294
68.4%
7 OTHER (SPECIFY) 37
8.6%
Sysmiss 2415
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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