Literal question
B. Educational Characteristics
[Questions 9 to 12 are asked for those who 6 years old or older]
9. What is the highest grade or school year you have completed?
Write the number on the corresponding line according to the type of schooling. If no grade was completed, mark the box 04.
[] 1 Primary ____
[] 2 Secondary ____
[] 3 University ____
[] 4 None
Interviewer instructions
B. Educational Characteristics
(Questions 9 to 12)
(Only for persons 6 years old or older)
Question 9 What is the highest grade or school year you have completed?
Before making the corresponding annotations, follow these instructions:
Do not use roman numerals. Keep in mind that the highest grade or year of regular education totally passed is requested and consequently neither half grades nor grades that have not been completely finished or passed should be written down.
If the person has received education abroad or in schools in the Panama Canal Zone, write down the equivalent grade in the system of regular education of this country with the closest possible approximation. For example: the 8th grade of the schools of the Canal Zone of Panama is equivalent to the 2nd grade of secondary schooling in Panama.
Keep in mind that the grade or year that is wanted refers only to what was passed within the three levels of regular education (primary, secondary, university) that is taught in public or private schools. (See annex 1 that refers to the schools of regular secondary education.)
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Therefore, courses of regular education, special or vocational studies that do not require the passing from a first cycle, such as some sewing schools, business schools, cooking schools, confectionary schools, secretary schools, telegraph schools, and other similar schools as well as correspondence schools will not be considered. Example [all refer to specific, well-known schools in Panama]:
The Applied School of Commerce
Accounting and Commerce Technical
The Muñoz School of Diesel Motors
The Thomas Alva Edison Institute
If the person claims to have taken one of these classes of special studies, insist on obtaining the information that refers to the last grade or school year passed in schools of regular education.
Below, examples of how to fill out the corresponding boxes are described:
Write down the grade in the line corresponding to the class of regular education. Examples:
Case 1: The person claims to have passed the sixth grade of primary school.
[The instructions refer to a graphic of case 1 of question 9 of the census form.]
Case 2: The person claims to have passed the second year of secondary school.
[The instructions refer to a graphic of case 2 of question 9 of the census form.]
If the person says that he/she is attending the first grade of primary school, mark box 4, this box is for persons who have never attended school.
