Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997

Reference ID

MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Reported literacy (B_LIT1)

Data file: MDG1997-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 455

End: 456

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

114. Can you read and understand a letter or newspaper easily, with difficulty, or not at all?

EASILY 1
WITH DIFFICULTY 2
NOT AT ALL 3 (GO TO 116)

Value	Category
00	Cannot read
10	Reads
11	Reads with difficulty
12	Reads easily
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

LIT1 (V108) indicates whether the woman could read. This information was obtained in response to the question, "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. Simply asking women whether and how easily they could read was the approach used to determine literacy in DHS Phases 1-3.

Beginning in Phase 4, a different approach was employed to determine literacy. See LIT2 (V155) for details about that second approach, which involved having the respondent read a sentence aloud. See LITBRIG for information about using the data on literacy across all phases of the DHS.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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