Notes
GENERAL NOTES
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The lower age cut-off at which information is collected will vary from country to country.
If no grade level information exists, this variable will be missing.
The variable does not take into account the actual number of years required to reach this level, in other words, first grade repeated three times still only counts as 1 year of schooling.
If a person has completed a BA/BSc, MA/MSc or PhD, but no number of years is known, use country specific information for the number of years.
COUNTRY SPECIFIC NOTES
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Generated by ERF using the highest level of education completed.
2 years of education were reported for those who can read & write.
Since we could not identify those who completed primary from those who completed preparatory education due to the combined categories of the original variable provided- aggregating both levels, except for those currently enrolled and for whom we could identify those who completed primary and lower secondary grades if currently attending preparatory or secondary, the number of years of education completed assigned to those who completed primary and preparatory will be the minimum number of years of education that could be accomplished in such a category, i.e. "6 years of education" - this is to avoid probable inconsistencies with the person age. Though, this assumption may result in an underestimation of 3 years for those who completed preparatory and for whom the original data would not enable this distinction.
