STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2012 (Wave 1)
Sri Lanka, 2012
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LKA_2012_STEP-HH_v02_M
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What was the reason/ reasons you dropped out? (m2_q17_25_2)
Data file: STEP Sri_Lanka_working
Overview
Valid:
434
Invalid:
2555
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1020
End:
1021
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 25
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no money for fees / uniform / books | 53 |
12.2%
|
| 2 | poor quality of schools/ education | 14 |
3.2%
|
| 3 | schools unsafe | 4 |
0.9%
|
| 4 | illness | 10 |
2.3%
|
| 5 | disability | 3 |
0.7%
|
| 6 | parents/ elders did not let me | 24 |
5.5%
|
| 7 | had to work outside home | 30 |
6.9%
|
| 8 | had to help in home | 95 |
21.9%
|
| 9 | school too far from home | 9 |
2.1%
|
| 10 | school conflicts with beliefs | 3 |
0.7%
|
| 11 | no female teachers | 1 |
0.2%
|
| 12 | pregnancy | 3 |
0.7%
|
| 13 | marriage | 4 |
0.9%
|
| 14 | schoolwork too difficult/ poor grades | 44 |
10.1%
|
| 15 | additional schooling wasn't worth it | 22 |
5.1%
|
| 16 | lack of interest in school | 97 |
22.4%
|
| 19 | other (specify____________) | 18 |
4.1%
|
| 21 | Personal reasons | 0 |
0%
|
| 22 | Had to go abroad | 0 |
0%
|
| 24 | Due to the insurgency | 0 |
0%
|
| 25 | Due to the war | 0 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 2555 |
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.