SES Combined socio-economic data

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DDI-MWI-MEIRU-SES-2007-v01b

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Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS

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What is the highest level of education that you completed? (S) (educat)

Data file: combined_ses_ind

Overview

Valid: 13903

Invalid: 485592

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 58

End: 58

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	Illiterate, no formal education	538	3.9%
1	Literate, no formal education	57	0.4%
2	Standard 1-5, illiterate	1011	7.3%
3	Standard 1-5, literate	993	7.1%
4	Standard 6-8	6520	46.9%
5	Secondary	4531	32.6%
6	Tertiary	253	1.8%
9	Missing	0
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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What is the highest level of education that you completed?

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

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

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