Attendance
5.2 and 5.3 Attendance
These questions are asked to the population 5 years old or older to identify people who currently attend school and who did at one time. Principally it is to be known if people of school age (6 to 14 years) are attending school.
Current attendance is considered to be the fact that a person goes to school or studies in any educational establishments of the National Educational System.
Past attendance is the fact that a person has gone to school or studied in any educational establishments of the National Educational System.
Attendance can be preschool, primary, secondary, preparatory or high school, professional (university, technological, normal, etc.) or post graduate.
The school or educational establishment can be classified in the following way:
- Public or private
- Of Open Education (in which one attends only some days for consulting and/or taking exams).
- Of Special Education (where education to people with audio, visual, language or learning problems is offered.
- Of Primary and secondary Education for adults
- Of technical or commercial Studies (in which a career at a technical level is offered like in academies, private centers, among others).
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Question 5.2 finds out the current scholarly attendance of the population.
When the answer is they do currently attend school, circle code 3 and go to question 5.4, when the answer is no, register code 4 and go to the next question.
If the answer is affirmative, but refers only to illiteracy classes, courses given in cultural centers, university extension courses, workshops or training on the job, consider that the person does not attend school. Some of these courses can be for carpentering, beauty, English, confectionary, photography, personal development, dressmaking, etc.
Question 5.3 finds out the past scholarly attendance of the population.
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When the answer is having attended school, circle the indicated code and continue with the question of level of instruction (5.4).
If the answer is never having gone to school, circle the corresponding code and go to section VI, about Civil state, if the person is 12 years old or older, if younger than this age, continue with the next person. If this is the last of the list go to section VII of Social subsidies, health services and disability.