STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)
Sri Lanka, 2012
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LKA_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M
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Why did you interrupt your studies? (m2_q38_1)
Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working
Overview
Valid:
334
Invalid:
2655
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
927
End:
928
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Module 2: Education
Q38. Why did you interrupt your studies?
Q38. Why did you interrupt your studies?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | employment | 8 |
2.4%
|
| 3 | unpaid family work | 41 |
12.3%
|
| 4 | look for work | 7 |
2.1%
|
| 5 | start own business | 2 |
0.6%
|
| 6 | travel/leisure | 2 |
0.6%
|
| 7 | family caregiving | 60 |
18%
|
| 8 | needed to earn money to continue education | 77 |
23.1%
|
| 9 | waiting to get into chosen education program | 3 |
0.9%
|
| 10 | illness | 63 |
18.9%
|
| 11 | pregnancy | 1 |
0.3%
|
| 12 | financial difficulties | 0 |
0%
|
| 13 | fear of the teachers | 0 |
0%
|
| 14 | great distance between the school and the home | 0 |
0%
|
| 16 | personal reasons | 0 |
0%
|
| 17 | weak in studies | 0 |
0%
|
| 18 | Due to the insurgency | 0 |
0%
|
| 19 | Due to the war | 0 |
0%
|
| 20 | Due to political problems | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | other (Specify) | 70 |
21%
|
| Sysmiss | 2655 |
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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