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STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)

Sri Lanka, 2012
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Reference ID
LKA_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/3x2b-wv98
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The STEP Skills Measurement Program
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Jun 30, 2014
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Why did you interrupt your studies? (m2_q38_2)

Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working

Overview

Valid: 69
Invalid: 2920
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 970
End: 971
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Module 2: Education

Q38_2. Why did you interrupt your studies? (2)
Categories
Value Category Cases
2 employment 1
1.4%
3 unpaid family work 11
15.9%
4 look for work 3
4.3%
5 start own business 2
2.9%
6 travel/leisure 1
1.4%
7 family caregiving 23
33.3%
8 needed to earn money to continue education 20
29%
9 waiting to get into chosen education program 0
0%
10 illness 3
4.3%
11 pregnancy 0
0%
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) 5
7.2%
Sysmiss 2920
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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