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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Oct 18, 2010
Last modified
Dec 02, 2013
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Mother's highest educational level (Hc61)

Data file: Person

Overview

Valid: 25357
Invalid: 131475
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 246
End: 246
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 3
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No education 12621
49.8%
1 Primary 5791
22.8%
2 Secondary 5681
22.4%
3 Higher 1264
5%
9 Missing 1838
Sysmiss 129637
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.

Description

Universe
All children listed in the household questionnaire who are younger than 60 months of age.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
If the mother was interviewed and the education data is complete, then this field is copied from her individual questionnaire; otherwise, the data is copied from the household questionnaire's member listing.
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