SES Combined socio-economic data

Malawi

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DDI-MWI-MEIRU-SES-2007-v01b

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Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS

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Mother's education level (S) (moeduc)

Data file: combined_ses_ind

Overview

Valid: 13903

Invalid: 485592

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 55

End: 55

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Illiterate	2228	16%
1	Literate and no formal education	172	1.2%
2	Up to primary school	7956	57.2%
3	Secondary school	1298	9.3%
4	Graduate or higher	103	0.7%
8	Don't know	2146	15.4%
Sysmiss		485592

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.

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Mother's education level

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: moeduc (table[s]: NCD_combined_data_all_final [derived table])

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