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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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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)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Reason woman stopped attending school (W_WHYDROPOUT)

Data file: MDG1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 464
End: 465
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
112. What is the main reason you stopped going to school?

GOT PREGNANT 01
GOT MARRIED 02
TO WATCH YOUNGER CHILDREN 03
FAMILY NEEDED HELP IN FIELDS/AT WORK 04
COULD NOT PAY FEES 05
NEEDED TO EARN MONEY 06
SUFFICIENTLY SCHOOLED 07
FAILED AT SCHOOL 08
NO LONGER LIKED SCHOOL 09
SCHOOL INACCESSIBLE/TOO FAR 10
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ 96
DOESN'T KNOW 98
Categories
Value Category
01 Got pregnant
02 Got married
03 Needed to take care of children
04 Family needed help
05 Could not pay for school
06 Needed to earn money
07 Graduated/had enough schooling
08 Failed/did not pass exams
09 Did not like school
10 School was not accessible/too far
11 Preferred to work
12 Health problems/got sick
13 Told by parents to stop
14 No opportunity to continue/no vacancies
15 School shut down/no teacher
16 Moved
17 Waiting for approved admission
18 Family displaced
96 Other
97 Don't know
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
For women who had ever attended, but are no longer attending school, WHYDROPOUT (V154) reports the reason why they stopped attending school.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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