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2000 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2000
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USA_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Grade level attending (US2000A_GRADEATT)

Data file: USA2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 497
End: 497
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US00A574"><span class="em">8. b. What grade or level was this person attending? </span>Mark [X] one box.<br /><div class="i1">[] Nursery school, preschool<br />[] Kindergarten<br />[] Grade 1 to grade 4<br />[] Grade 5 to grade 8<br />[] Grade 9 to grade 12<br />[] College undergraduate years (freshman to senior)<br />[] Graduate or professional school (for example. medical, dental, or law school)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Nursery school/preschool
2 Kindergarten
3 Grade 1 to grade 4
4 Grade 5 to grade 8
5 Grade 9 to grade 12
6 College undergraduate
7 Graduate or professional school
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the grade or level of recent schooling for people who attended "regular school or college" in the past two months.
Universe
United States 2000: Persons attending school [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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