Demographic and Health Survey 1995-1996 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1995 - 1996

Reference ID

MLI_1995_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante', de la Solidarite' et de Personnes Agees (CPS/MSSPA) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Aug 15, 2018

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Literacy bridging variable (B_LITBRIG)

Data file: MLI1995-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 463

End: 464

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

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

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

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)

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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