| Educational Attainment in Years [message #28973] |
Sat, 06 April 2024 14:43  |
krittika03
Messages: 7
Registered: March 2024
|
Member |
|
|
|
Hi, I am trying to understand the single years of educational attainment numbers since I am using them for my project. Are the years in formal schooling? For example, is one year of school Class 1, or is any year of schooling subjective to how the respondent has perceived it?
|
|
|
|
| Re: Educational Attainment in Years [message #28981 is a reply to message #28973] |
Mon, 08 April 2024 09:51  |
fred.arnold@icf.com
Messages: 84
Registered: May 2021
|
Senior Member |
|
|
|
If you are using the educational attainment information from the Household Questionnaire, there are two questions about every person age 5+ in the household listing that are asked of the household respondent. The question in Column 19 asks if (NAME) has ever attended school. If yes, the question in Column 20 asks "What is the highest grade name has completed?" The schooling questions relate only to formal schooling, and they do not include religious education for example. The questions do not ask about the level of education (unlike other DHS surveys). It is important to understand that the question refers to the highest grade that has been completed. In other words, if the person attended a particular grade, but did not complete that grade, the incomplete grade is not counted. The interviewers are told to be sure that only completed grades are included. If the person ever attended school, but did not complete even one grade of school, the response category is 00 = LESS THAN 1 YEAR COMPLETED. Table 2.17 shows the percent distribution of the de facto female and male household population age 6 and over by the highest number of years of schooling completed. The levels of schooling in that table are no schooling, <5 years complete, 5-7 years completed, 8-9 years complete, 10-11 years complete, and 12 or more years complete.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Educational Attainment in Years [message #28987 is a reply to message #28985] |
Mon, 08 April 2024 14:07 |
krittika03
Messages: 7
Registered: March 2024
|
Member |
|
|
that makes sense! so just so I have understood properly, the 1 year is 1 year of formal education say grade 1? Sorry, I really need to make sure I got it right because my first model just uses educational attainment as the predictor variable. So in R, I have used:
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU <- as.factor(case_when(
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU == 0 ~ "No Education",
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU %in% 1:5 ~ "Primary Education",
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU %in% 6:8 ~ "Upper Primary/Middle School",
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU %in% 9:10 ~ "Secondary School",
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU %in% 11:12 ~ "Higher Secondary",
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU %in% 13:15 ~ "Undergraduate Degree",
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU %in% 16:18 ~ "Postgraduate",
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU %in% 19:20 ~ "Advanced Studies", # For doctoral or specialized studies beyond postgrad
TRUE ~ "Other" # Handles any unexpected values
))
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU <- factor(DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU, levels=c("No Education", "Primary Education", "Upper Primary/Middle School", "Secondary School", "Higher Secondary", "Undergraduate Degree", "Postgraduate", "Advanced Studies"))
DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU <- relevel(DHSWomen_25Above$WOMEDU, ref = "High School")
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The DHS Program User Forum
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
