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2010 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2010
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GHA_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Highest level of school attended or attending (GH2010A_EDLEVEL)

Data file: GHA2010_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 181
End: 182
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions P00-P20 were asked for persons in both the household and non-household populations.]</p>

<p><span class="em">Full time education: answer for persons 3 years and older</span>
<br />[P12a, P12b and P12c were asked for persons 3 years of age and older.]</p>

<p>P12b. What is the highest level of schooling [the respondent] is attending now/attended in the past?</p>
<div class="i1">[P12b was asked for persons who had attended school in the past or were attending school now (responded "past" or "now" to P12a).]<br />[] 01 Nursery<br />[] 02 Kindergarten<br />[] 03 Primary<br />[] 04 JSS/JHS<br />[] 05 Middle <br />[] 06 SSS/SHS<br />[] 07 Secondary<br />[] 08 Voc/technical/commercial<br />[] 09 Post middle/secondary certificate (teacher training/college of education, agric, nursing etc.)<br />[] 10 Post secondary diploma (university diploma, HND, teacher training/college of education diploma, etc)<br />[] 11 Bachelor degree<br />[] 12 Post graduate (Cert., Diploma, Masters, PHD, etc.)</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
01 Nursery
02 Kindergarten
03 Primary
04 Junior secondary school (JSS) or junior high school (JHS)
05 Middle
06 Senior secondary school (SSS) or senior high school (SHS)
07 Secondary
08 Vocational, technical, commercial
09 Post middle, secondary certificate
10 Post secondary diploma
11 Bachelor degree
12 Post graduate (certificate, diploma, masters, PhD, others)
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 highest level of school the person attended or is attending.
Universe
Ghana 2010: Persons age 3+ who attend or have attended school [discrepancies: none]

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