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XI Population Census and VI Housing Census of 2002 - IPUMS Subset

Guatemala, 2002
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Reference ID
GTM_2002_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Jul 30, 2025
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Reason for leaving school (LEFTSCH)

Data file: GTM2002_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 147
End: 148
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
10 Finished studies
20 Financial considerations
21 Insufficient economic means
22 Working
30 Access to a school
31 School too far away
32 No school (or teacher) available
33 No higher grades offered
34 No places available in school
40 Family reasons
41 Parents think it is not important
42 Family required for household tasks
43 Marriage or pregnancy
44 Got married or entered a consensual union
45 Pregnancy
46 Separation or death of parents
50 Other reasons
51 Never attended school
52 Did not want to attend or to study
53 Too young to attend
54 Too old to attend
55 Illness/disability
56 No required documentation available to enroll
57 Academic issues
58 Learning outside of school
59 Other, not elsewhere classified
99 Unknown/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
LEFTSCH reports the primary reason the respondent cited for leaving school.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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