Census of Population, Housing and Agriculture 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Zambia, 1990

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ZMB_1990_CPHA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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Central Statistical Office, Minnesota Population Center

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Agricultural Censuses

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Educational attainment, international recode [detailed version] (EDATTAIND)

Data file: ZMB1990-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 142

End: 144

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 999

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
100	Less than primary completed (n.s.)
110	No schooling
120	Some primary completed
130	Primary (4 yrs) completed
211	Primary (5 yrs) completed
212	Primary (6 yrs) completed
221	Lower secondary general completed
222	Lower secondary technical completed
311	Secondary, general track completed
312	Some college completed
320	Secondary or post-secondary technical completed
321	Secondary, technical track completed
322	Post-secondary technical education
400	University completed
999	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

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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Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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