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Re: Mismatch in educational attainment and education in single years [message #28452 is a reply to message #28449] Tue, 09 January 2024 09:20 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:


I'll describe the variables for men in the MR file, with the "mv" prefix. The same applies for women in the IR file, with the "v" prefix.

There are four relevant variables for education:

. describe mv106 mv107 mv133 mv149

              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mv106           byte    %8.0g      MV106      educational level
mv107           byte    %8.0g      MV107      highest year of education (at level in mv106)
mv133           byte    %8.0g      MV133      total number of years of education
mv149           byte    %8.0g      MV149      educational attainment

mv149 and mv107 are almost exactly the same. The only difference is that mv149 divides primary into incomplete and complete:

. tab mv149 mv106

         educational |              educational level
          attainment | no educat    primary  secondary     higher |     Total
---------------------+--------------------------------------------+----------
        no education |    12,269          0          0          0 |    12,269 
  incomplete primary |         0     11,710          0          0 |    11,710 
incomplete secondary |         0          0     55,807          0 |    55,807 
  complete secondary |         0          0      4,211          0 |     4,211 
              higher |         0          0          0     17,842 |    17,842 
---------------------+--------------------------------------------+----------
               Total |    12,269     11,710     60,018     17,842 |   101,839

mv133 is a recode of mv106 and mv107. The following table gives the mean of mv133 for each combination of mv106 and mv107. (Ignore the "Total" column and row.) 

. tab mv107 mv106, summarize(mv133) means

                Means of total number of years of education

   highest |
   year of |
education |
(at level |       educational level
in mv106) |   primary  secondary     higher |     Total
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
no years  |         0          .          . |         0
         1 |         1          6         13 | 8.5814143
         2 |         2          7         14 | 8.1771985
         3 |         3          8         15 |  10.65447
         4 |         4          9         16 | 8.6599261
         5 |         5         10         17 | 9.5647399
         6 |         .         11         18 | 11.566783
         7 |         .         12         19 | 12.099424
         8 |         .          .         20 |        20
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
     Total | 3.9836038  9.5509347  15.147237 | 9.9378475

Hope this answers your question. Please let us know if it does not.

 
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