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Papua New Guinea 1980 — source variable PG1980A_EDATTAIN — Highest grade completed

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[Questions 4-14 were asked of all persons who stayed in the residence last night.]

11. What is the highest grade you finished at school?

Write number of grades finished or 'NIL'____

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Section 6 - The census questions

Urban RNVs and rural villages

Question 11

What is the highest grade you finished at school?

Grades one to six are primary school level grades seven to twelve are high school level.
Write down the last grade fully completed e.g. If someone is in grade five now, this means he has fully completed grade four. So write G4.
Primary schools were standards 1 to 6.
Secondary schools were forms 1 to 4.
If you get an answer form 2 then write F2.
If you get an answer Standard 6 then write S6.
Include any correspondence study. If a person has passed grade 10 fully by correspondence then write grade 10.

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University preliminary year is equivalent to grade 12.
Ask this question for any person in the family.
If a person is now doing tertiary education, you must still ask this question as you cannot take it for granted that he has necessarily completed grade twelve.
For people with overseas schooling write down the highest level they finished at a school overseas.
Be careful not to embarrass old people.
Bible schools and Tok Ples schools are a problem. In most cases these do not have an official grade and thus if someone only went to one of these write 'NIL'. We are looking for recognized schooling for the purposes of getting a job.
Vocational schools do not count as a grade unless they actually obtain a certificate saying that they have passed grade 8 or grade 10. Some vocational schools do the correspondence course.

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Papua New Guinea 1990 — source variable PG1990A_EDATTAIN — Highest level of education attained

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[The rural and urban census forms are identical for questions 1-17. Questions 1-17 are provided here in detail under the rural census form, and omitted in the urban census form.]

For all persons
[Questions 12-15 were asked of all persons.]

13. Highest formal educational level completed

Enter the highest grade of educational level completed. Enter "00" for no education in the boxes

Education _ _

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Papua New Guinea 2000 — source variable PG2000A_EDATTAIN — Highest grade completed

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Continue only for persons aged 5 years or more
[Questions 11-12 were asked of persons age 5+.]

12. What is the highest formal education grade [the respondent] completed?

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Questions on Education
The next four questions are on education and literacy. Information on education and literacy is important because it tells us how many people have attended school and helps us plan for the education needs of the community in the future.

Question 12: Educational Attainment
This question is about the level of education people have completed.

Q12. What is the highest formal educational grade completed?
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Who to ask: As the head of the household or the person responding.

Get this information for:
All persons 5 years and older. That is, all persons born before 9 July 1995. If date of birth is not recorded, use age given in years.
Person who were given code 1 and 2 in Q11.

How to ask: "What is the highest grade/level of education that the person has completed?"

How to record: Write the highest grade completed in the two boxes, Formal education grades are Grade 01 to Grade 2. For example, for Grade 5 write "05".

-Write "00" for no schooling, or no grades completed.
-Record only the grades completed. If they are still at school, do not include the grade the person is in now. For example: Ila is in Grade 9 this year. He completed Grade 8 last year, so write "08" in the code boxes.
-In most cases you will not need to write anything in the space provided before the boxes.
-If the person was educated overseas, write the highest level achieved in the blank space provided (e.g., high school).
-Then write the number of years of schooling in the two boxes.
-Write "00" for persons who have never attended school and those who are in their first year of formal school, attending pre-schools, elementary or Tok Ples schools.
-Only write the highest grade completed in the formal school system. Do not include education after leaving high school. For example, if a person completed Grade 10 before completing a computer correspondence course, write 10 in the box.

Note: Record the grade completed and not the grade he/she doing now.

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