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Age of primary education enrollment [message #26889] Tue, 16 May 2023 16:21 Go to next message
rjing is currently offline  rjing
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Hi,

I am new to DHS and currently I am working on a project on global education. May I know by any chance if I can get the age of starting primary education for each participants? Or if this info is available for a subgroup of participants?

I can compute this age for populations who are 'still in school' using age_at_survey - education_single_years, but can I have this for all participants?

Any feedback is appreciated! Thank you!

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Re: Age of primary education enrollment [message #26891 is a reply to message #26889] Wed, 17 May 2023 09:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Janet-DHS is currently offline  Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

The age at which a respondent started school is not a standard variable in DHS surveys. I don't know of any DHS survey in which the question has been asked.
Re: Age of primary education enrollment [message #27599 is a reply to message #26891] Fri, 08 September 2023 14:39 Go to previous message
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Cases with the same code are in the same district, and you can calculate means, proportions, etc. by districts. Other forum posts include Stata code showing how to do this. The GPS files do not include the https://testmyspeed.onl/ boundaries.
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