General Population Census VIII Homes IV and Housing VI 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Uruguay, 2011

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Reference ID

URY_2011_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Literacy (UY2011A_0449)

Data file: URY2011-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 227

End: 227

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For people 10 years or older that never attended, attend, or took classes in Special Elementary School and passed 3 years of Basic Elementary School:

26. Does [the respondent] know how to read and write? (PerEd08)

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Yes
2	No
9	Unknown

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

Does he/she know how to read and write?

This question is aimed towards people 10 years of age or older that never attended an education center and that attend/attended and have a level of education equal to or less than three years of elementary school or attend/attended a Special Elementary School.

The objective is to investigate the literacy of the population.

Select "yes" if the person knows how to read and write (both) at least one complete paragraph.
Select "no" if the person responds that he/she only knows to write or only knows to read, or neither.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates if the person is literate.

Universe

Persons age 10+

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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