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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., 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, based on reading passage (C_LIT2)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 573
End: 574
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
112. Now I would like you to read this sentence to me.
SHOW CARD TO 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 (SPECIFY LANGUAGE) _______ 4
BLIND/VISUALLY IMPAIRED 5
Categories
Value Category
00 Cannot read at all
10 Reads
11 Able to read only part of sentence
12 Able to read whole sentence
20 Not ascertained (blind, diff. language)
21 No card with required language
22 Blind or visually impaired
98 Missing
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
LIT2 (V155) indicates whether the woman could read. This variable is available 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 with LIT1 (V108), those with secondary or higher schooling were presumed to have attained the highest literacy level.

For Phases 1-3 of the DHS, information on literacy was collected using a different approach, by simply asking whether the person could read (LIT1). 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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