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1989 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1989
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VNM_1989_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1989 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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School attendance (VN1989A_SCHOOL)

Data file: VNM1989_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 170
End: 170
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="VN89A407 VN89A408 VN89A409 VN89A410 VN89A411"><span class="em">For persons born on or before 1-4-1984 (aged 5 and over) answer following questions</span> [applies to questions 6 to 8]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN89A410">8.a/School attendance or equivalent<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Attending now<br />[] 2 Attended in the past<br />[] 3 Never attended</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Attending now
2 Attended in the past
3 Never attended
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="VN89A407 VN89A408 VN89A409 VN89A410 VN89A411"><span class="h3">6. Place where usually live on 4/1/1984 (5 years ago):</span><br /><span class="em">Persons who were born before April 1st, 1984 (5 years of age and older) answer this section. </span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN89A410"><span class="h3">8. a) School attendance (or equivalent) </span><br /><span class="em">Persons who were born before April 1st, 1984 (5 years of age and older) answer this question.</span><br /><br />School is defined as general education or equivalent, for example continuing education school, evening general education school, evening continuation class, Chinese school, etc.<br /><br />"Attending now", "attended in the past", and "never attended" refer to persons who are currently enrolled, or have not entered in general education schools or equivalent as stated above.<br /><br />Persons who are currently enrolled or have already dropped out of other types of schools such as kindergarten or professional training schools, are not listed as "attended" in this question.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the school attendance of the person.
Universe
Vietnam 1989: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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