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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The years of education completed at each level of the secondary stage were computed as the average number of years completed in the 3 education systems that were implemented in North and South Sudan during the past few years. Since the education system based on which the individual pursuit his studies cannot be distinguished.
As per the survey documentation, there is no clear or unified education system for the "Khalwa" education in Sudan, which is equivalent in other countries to some kind of Koranic/literacy education. Therefore, the number of years of education for those who reported "khalwa" to be their highest level of education attained could not be identified.
