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.
Number of effective years of schooling was generated using v211 and v212 for those who are currently attending school and v213, v214 and v215 for those who are not currently attending school.
For those who are not currently attending school and no level of education is accomplished, but there is an indication that they can read and write, along with those who can read & write or were enrolled in any informal education, number of effective years of education was recoded "2".
The number of years of education could not be estimated for those currently enrolled in KG, Koranic schools (Kouttab) or the preparation stage for elementary education; and for those who reported "None" in the highest level of education completed.
For those who are currently enrolled in basic education, the effective years of schooling was computed to equal the grade level the individual is currently attending reduced by "one" to indicate the number of years successfully completed in basic education.
