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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Literacy bridging variable (W_LITBRIG)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 613
End: 614
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
108. Now I would like you to read this sentence to me.

SHOW A SENTENCE FROM THE LITERACY CARD TO THE RESPONDENT.

IF RESPONDENT CANNOT READ WHOLE SENTENCE, PROBE: Can you read any part of the sentence to me?

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 (SPECIFY LANGUAGE)_______4
BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED 5
Categories
Value Category
10 Yes, reads
11 Reads easily/whole sentence
12 Reads with difficulty/part of sentence
20 No, cannot read
30 Not ascertained (blind or diff. language)
31 No card with required language
32 Blind or visually impaired
98 Missing
99 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.

Description

Definition
LITBRIG serves as a bridging variable between two approaches to collecting information on literacy. Initially, respondents were asked, "Can you read a letter or newspaper easily, with difficulty, or not at all?" In many countries, persons with secondary or higher levels of schooling were presumed to "read easily," but coding criteria varied across countries.

Beginning with Phase 4 of the DHS, persons with less than secondary school education were asked to demonstrate their literacy level by reading aloud a sentence on a card and were classified as "cannot read at all," "able to read only parts of sentence," and "able to read whole sentence." As before, those with secondary or higher schooling were presumed to have attained the highest literacy level.

LITBRIG combines information from the first approach of asking about literacy (in LIT1 [V108]) and the second approach of testing literacy based on reading a sentence aloud (in LIT2 [V155]).

See Comparability for more information.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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