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XIV National Population and III Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1973
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COL_1973_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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  • COL1973_PHC-H-H.dat
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School attendance (CO1973A_SCHOOL)

Data file: COL1973_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 214
End: 214
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="CO73A415 CO73A416 CO73A417 CO73A418"><span class="h2">B. Educational characteristics (for persons five years old or more).</span><br />[Applies to questions 10 - 13]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CO73A416"><span class="em">11. Do you currently attend an elementary school, secondary school, or higher?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
8 Unknown
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
<svar v="CO73A415 CO73A416 CO73A417 CO73A418"><span class="h3">Section B. Educational characteristics</span><br /><br />Fill out this section for all persons 5 years old or more.<br />[Applies to questions 10 - 13]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="CO73A416"><span class="em">Question No. 11. School attendance</span><br /><br />Mark "x" in the box "yes" in the following cases:<br /><br />When a person attends at the moment of the census an educational establishment and follows programs of primary, secondary or superior education.<br /><br />When a person does not attend an establishment of primary, secondary or superior education, for reasons transitory purposes like sickness, passenger, strike, vacation, etc.<br /><br />Mark "x" in the box in the following cases:<br /><br />When a person does not attend at the moment of the census an establishment of primary, secondary or superior education.<br /><br />When a person does courses that are not of primary, secondary or superior education like dictations classes in the SENA, in television or radio broadcast schools, literacy or those that are done by correspondence.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person attends school.
Universe
Colombia 1973: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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