IX National Population and Housing Census 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Dominican Republic, 2010

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Reference ID

DOM_2010_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Sep 24, 2014

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Attended/attending school (DO2010A_0424)

Data file: DOM2010-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 221

End: 221

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For persons age 3 and over

36. Has [the respondent] attended school, high school or university?

[] 1 Yes, attends school
[] 2 Does not currently attend but attended school
[] 3 Never attended school

Categories

Value	Category
1	Currently attends
2	Not currently attending but has attended
3	Never attended
9	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.

Interviewer instructions

Question 36. Has [the respondent] attended school, high school or university?

This question is designed to find out information about school attendance for all people age 3 and older. Attendance is defined for any accredited educational institution or program, in other words public or private, of levels ranging from preschool, primary or basic school, secondary or high school and university.

For purposes of the Census the following are not considered educational centers: daycare, typing school, fashion or beauty school, mechanics shop, radio and television courses or other extracurricular courses.

Ask if the interviewee attends or has attended school, college or university. Fill in the corresponding bubble to the answer given by the informant. If the answers is "Yes, attends school", then fill in code 1. Otherwise if the informant answers that the person "Does not attend, but attended school in the past", then fill in code 2. Or if the informant "Never went to school", then fill in code 3, and skip to question 42.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person attended or is attending school.

Universe

Persons age 3+

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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