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VIII National Population and Housing Census, 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2002
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DOM_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Attends or attended school (DO2002A_SCHOOL)

Data file: DOM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 255
End: 255
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">For persons of 3 years old and more </span>
<br />[Questions 37-44 were asked of persons age 3+.]</p>

<p>38. Does/did [the respondent] attend a school, college or university, whether public or private? </p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Attending a public school (Go to question 40)<br />[] 2 Attending a private school (Go to question 40)<br />[] 3 Never attended school (Go to question 45)<br />[] 4 Not currently attending but attended in the past</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Attending a public school
2 Attending a private school
3 Never attended school
4 Not currently attending but attended
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">For People Age 3 or Older </span></p>

<p><span class="em">Question 38: Has (NAME) attended school, high school or university, public or private?</span></p>

<p>Fill in the correct answer.
<br />If the person answer that he/she is going to a public or private school, fill in the corresponding bubble and then skip to question 40.
<br />If the person answers that he/she "Never went to school", fill in the bubble with the corresponding answer and then skip to question 45.
<br />If the person answers that he/she is not going to school but that he/she went before, fill in the corresponding bubble and then go to question 39.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates that a person either currently attends school or has attended school.
Universe
Dominican Republic 2002: Persons age 3+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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