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Enquête Démographique et de Santé 2006

Benin, 2006
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BEN_2006_DHS_v01_M
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Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Literacy (v155)

Data file: REC11

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 87
End: 87
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 Cannot read at all
1 Able to read only parts of sentence
2 Able to read whole sentence
3 No card with required language
4 Blind/visually impaired
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.

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Notes
Literacy. Whether a respondent who attended primary schooling can read a whole or part of a sentence showed. A respondent who attended secondary education or higher are coded 2 as well as respondent who could read a whole sentence.
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