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Greater Eldoret Health and Development Survey (Round 2) 2005

Kenya, 2005
Markus Goldstein and Harsha Thirumurthy
Created on June 01, 2022 Last modified June 01, 2022 Page views 397115 Metadata DDI/XML JSON
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CSV JSON

Why did not attend school (qed17)

Data file: education

Overview

Valid: 1456
Invalid: 1288
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 99
Mean: 5.389
Standard deviation: 6.774
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Why did [NAME] not attend school (on these days)?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Own illness 416
28.6%
2 Caring for sick family member 26
1.8%
3 Working at home 152
10.4%
4 Working outside home 105
7.2%
6 Funeral/mourning 54
3.7%
7 Non-payment of fees 342
23.5%
8 Teacher missing 7
0.5%
9 Other (specify) 341
23.4%
10 Too young 7
0.5%
98 4
0.3%
99 2
0.1%
Sysmiss 1288
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 those individuals who are between the ages of 6 and 25 as well as any other children in school.
Source of information
The primary female respondent.
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