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Labour Force Survey, 2016
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Italy, 2016
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Reference ID
ITA_2016_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Highest education level completed (ISCED) (IT2016H_HATLEV)

Data file: ITA2016_LFS-Q1-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 896
End: 898
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
SG24A. Which of these diplomas are you referring to?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Diploma (old system) [go to SG25]<br />[] 2 Academic Diploma of Higher Artistic, Musical and Choreographic Education Level I<br />[] 3 Academic Diploma of Higher Artistic, Musical and Choreographic Education Level II<br />[] 997 Doesn't know [go to SG25]</div><p>SG24B. Do you have a postgraduate degree, AFAM academic postgraduate degree or PhD?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Level I Master's Degree / Academic Diploma in Advanced Studies or Level I Master's Degree/level I Academic specialization diploma [go to SG25]<br />[] 2 Level II Master's Degree / Graduate academic diploma or Master's Degree Level II/Graduate academic diploma level II [go to SG25]<br />[] 3 University specialization diploma [go to SG25]<br />[] 4 PhD/academic research training diploma AFAM [go to SG25]<br />[] 5 None of these [go to SG25]</div>
Categories
Value Category
000 No formal education or below ISCED 1
100 ISCED 1 Primary education
200 ISCED 2 Lower secondary (incl. ISCED 3 programs of duration less than 2 years)
300 ISCED 3 Upper secondary - program of duration of 2 years and more, sequential (i.e. access to next ISCED3 program only)
302 ISCED 3 Upper secondary - program duration of 2 years and more, sequential (i.e. access to next ISCED 3 program only)
303 ISCED 3 Upper secondary - program duration of 2 years and more, terminal or access to ISCED 4 only
304 ISCED 3 Upper secondary - with access to ISCED 5, 6 or 7
400 ISCED 4 Post-secondary but not tertiary
500 ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary
600 ISCED 6 Bachelor
700 ISCED 7 Master
800 ISCED 8 Doctoral
999 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 highest level of education completed, as classified by ISCED.
Universe
Italy 2016: Persons age 15+

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Concept
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