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MICS

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2006

Lao PDR, 2006
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Reference ID
LAO_2006_MICS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Department of Statistics, Hygiene and Prevention Department, United Nations Children's Fund
Collection(s)
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
Metadata
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Nov 25, 2015
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Education of household head (helevel)

Data file: hl

Overview

Valid: 33551
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 176
End: 176
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Recoded variable
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 None 8267
24.6%
2 Primary or less 16069
47.9%
3 Secondary 8730
26%
4 University 406
1.2%
5 Non-standard curriculum/DK 0
0%
6 Mother not in household 0
0%
9 79
0.2%
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

Universe
De jure household members (usual residents)
Source of information
Head of household or other responsible household member

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
The variable is created from information collected on educational level in the HL file. See makehh.sps in the data processing folder under technical information.
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