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.