Population Census 1972 - IPUMS Subset, Housing, Economic and Demographic Survey

Pakistan, 1972

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PAK_1972_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

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Population Census Organization

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Apr 22, 2011

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Educational attainment, international recode [general version] (edattan)

Data file: PAK1973-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 104

End: 104

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Less than primary completed
2	Primary completed
3	Secondary completed
4	University completed
9	Unknown

Description

Definition

EDATTAN records the person's educational attainment in terms of the level of schooling completed (degree or other milestone). The emphasis on level completed is critical: a person attending the final year of secondary education receives the code for having completed lower secondary only -- and in some samples only primary.

EDATTAN does not necessarily reflect any particular country's definition of the various levels of schooling in terms of terminology or the number of years of schooling. EDATTAN is an attempt to merge -- into a single, roughly comparable variable -- samples that provide degrees, ones that provide actual years of schooling, and those that have some of both. In addition to EDATTAN, a country-specific education classification is provided which loses no information and reflects the particular educational system of that country (for example EDUCBR, EDUCCL, and EDUCUS).

Many samples also give single years of schooling completed, recorded in YRSCHL. Some samples provide educational information in a form that could not be incorporated into EDATTAN.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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