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1980 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Trinidad and Tobago, 1980
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Reference ID
TTO_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Type of school attending (TT1980A_SCHLTYPE)

Data file: TTO1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 157
End: 158
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Section 3 Education -- For all persons</span></p>

<p>12. Type of school now being attended
<br />What type of school is (N) [the respondent's] attending?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Nursery/Kindergarten<br />[] 10 Private Primary<br />[] 11 Government and Assisted Primary<br />[] 20 Junior Secondary<br />[] 21 Trade/Vocational School<br />[] 22 Youth Camp<br />[] 30 Senior Comprehensive<br />[] 31 Private Secondary<br />[] 32 Government and Assisted Secondary<br />[] 33 Composite<br />[] 34 Technical Institute<br />[] 60 University<br />[] 98 Other<br />[] 99 Not stated</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Nursery or kindergarten
10 Private primary
11 Government and assisted primary
20 Junior secondary
21 Trade or vocational school
22 Youth camp
30 Senior comprehensive
31 Private secondary
32 Government and assisted secondary
33 Composite
34 Technical institute
60 University
97 Other
98 Unknown
99 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 type of school that a respondent is currently attending.
Universe
Trinidad and Tobago 1980: Persons attending school [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
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