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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Highest school type mother attended (D) (mschltype)

Data file: combined_ses_ind

Overview

Valid: 242936

Invalid: 256559

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 54

End: 54

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	None	7208	3%
1	Primary	190798	78.5%
2	Secondary	43331	17.8%
3	Tertiary	1599	0.7%
4	Higher	0	0%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		256559

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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Definition

Highest school type mother attended

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

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

recode moeduc 0/1=0 2=1 3=2 4=3 8=., gen(mschltype)

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