Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1999

Guinea, 1999

Reference ID

GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Direction National de la Statistique et de l'Information (DNSI)

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Apr 25, 2019

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Literate in English (MW87A413)

Data file: MWI1987-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Persons age 5 or older
[Questions J and K were asked of persons age 5 or older]

j. Literacy

Able to read and write:

Chichewa

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

English

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

English

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No
9	NIU (not in universe)

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.

Interviewer instructions

Literacy
49. The information required here is whether a person is able to read and write a simple statement in Chichewa and/or English. This question should be asked to persons who are age 5 years or older.

Persons aged 5 years or more

[Questions (j) and (k) on Literacy and Education apply only to persons aged 5 years or more. Never ask any of these questions to persons younger than 5 years]

(j) Literacy

Able to read and write English: Ask whether each person is able to read and write a simple statement in English and similarly record the appropriate code in column 31.
The codes are:

[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No

Description

Definition

This variable records whether the individual is literate in English.

Universe

Persons age 5+

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS