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General Census of Population and Housing 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 1998
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MLI_1998_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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Central Bureau of the Census, Minnesota Population Center
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Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Educational attainment, international recode [general version] (EDATTAIN)

Data file: MLI1998-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 115
End: 115
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Less than primary completed
2 Primary completed
3 Secondary completed
4 University completed
9 Unknown
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
EDATTAIN records the person's educational attainment in terms of the level of schooling completed (degree or other milestone). The emphasis on level completed is critical: a person attending the final year of secondary education receives the code for having completed lower secondary only -- and in some samples only primary.

EDATTAIN does not necessarily reflect any particular country's definition of the various levels of schooling in terms of terminology or the number of years of schooling. EDATTAIN is an attempt to merge -- into a single, roughly comparable variable -- samples that provide degrees, ones that provide actual years of schooling, and those that have some of both. In addition to EDATTAIN, a country-specific education classification is provided which loses no information and reflects the particular educational system of that country (for example EDUCBR for Brazil, EDUCCL for Chile, and EDUCUS for the United States). As always, users can refer to the original education source variables for each sample, if they wish.

Many samples also give single years of schooling completed, recorded in YRSCHOOL. Some samples provide educational information in a form that could not be incorporated into EDATTAIN.

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var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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