World Health Survey 2003

Sri Lanka, 2003

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LKA_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes

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Oct 17, 2013

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education (q1009)

Data file: WHS-SriLanka_F5

Overview

Valid: 6732

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 70

End: 73

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Respondent’s Socio Demographic Characteristics
I would like to start by asking you some background questions before asking you questions on your health. This information is confidential and will only be used for research purposes.

Literal question

What is the highest level of education that you have completed?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No formal schoolong	405	6%
2	less than primary school	553	8.2%
3	primary school completed	1754	26.1%
4	secondary school completed	2588	38.4%
5	high school completed	1278	19%
6	college completed	135	2%
7	post graduate degree completed	19	0.3%

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.

Interviewer instructions

This refers to the highest level of education successfully completed. If a person attended 3 months of the first year of secondary school but did not complete the year, the option “primary school” will be recorded. If a person only attended a few years of primary school or never went to school, the option “less than primary school” will be recorded.
The level of education can either be completed at school or at home. This may be the case of someone who, due to illness or other circumstances, does not attend school but has private tutoring or some other form of schooling that requires taking exams in order to complete primary or secondary education.
If countries use educational categories other than those specified here, they must provide WHO with a mapping of those to the categories as stated in the questionnaire. The same categories must be used for Column D of the household roster and Q 0918.

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