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STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)

Sri Lanka, 2012
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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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What was the reason/ reasons you dropped out? (m2_q17_25_1)

Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working

Overview

Valid: 1054
Invalid: 1935
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1018
End: 1019
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 25
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 no money for fees / uniform / books 441
41.8%
2 poor quality of schools/ education 16
1.5%
3 schools unsafe 10
0.9%
4 illness 59
5.6%
5 disability 3
0.3%
6 parents/ elders did not let me 44
4.2%
7 had to work outside home 25
2.4%
8 had to help in home 87
8.3%
9 school too far from home 19
1.8%
10 school conflicts with beliefs 3
0.3%
11 no female teachers 2
0.2%
12 pregnancy 2
0.2%
13 marriage 25
2.4%
14 schoolwork too difficult/ poor grades 122
11.6%
15 additional schooling wasn't worth it 22
2.1%
16 lack of interest in school 135
12.8%
19 other (specify____________) 39
3.7%
21 Personal reasons 0
0%
22 Had to go abroad 0
0%
24 Due to the insurgency 0
0%
25 Due to the war 0
0%
Sysmiss 1935
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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