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2012 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2012
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TZA_2012_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Literacy (TZ2012A_LIT)

Data file: TZA2012_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 242
End: 242
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">C. Education: All persons aged 4 years and above</span>
<br /><span class="em">[Questions 20-22 were asked of persons aged 4+] </span></p>

<p>20. Literacy </p>
<div class="i1">Can [the respondent] read and write a short sentence in Kiswahili, English, Kiswahili and English or any other language?<br /><br />[] 1 Kiswahili <br />[] 2 English <br />[] 3 Kiswahili and English <br />[] 4 Other language <br />[] 5 Illiterate</div>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Can read or write in Swahili
2 Can read or write in English
3 Can read or write in Swahili and English
4 Can read or write in other language
5 Can not read or write in any language
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 whether the person is literate.
Universe
Tanzania 2012: Persons age 4+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
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