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General Survey of the Population and Housing 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Côte d'Ivoire, 2012
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Reference ID
CIV_1998_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Planning, Department of Statistics, National Census Committee, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Literacy (CI1998A_LIT)

Data file: CIV1998_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 246
End: 246
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">Residents of age six years and over</span>
<br />[Question 26 through 33 asked of resident persons aged 6 and older.]</p>

<p>26. Literacy </p>
<div class="i1">Can you read a letter from or write a letter to a friend or relative?<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes, can read and write
2 No, cannot read or write
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the literacy.
Universe
Côte d'Ivoire 1998: Persons age 6+ who are residents of the household [discrepancies: type I none; type II 0.5%]

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