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6.5. Marital status and education

6.5.1. Specification of data

The measurement procedures are described in Section 1.4.2 of Part III of the MONICA Manual (1). Any variation between the RUAs in the measurement procedures and quality of the data are described in the report on quality assessment of data on marital status and educational achievement (13).

The following extract from the Core data transfer format - survey data of the MONICA Manual (1) specifies the format in which the data were transferred to the MONICA Data Centre:
 

NAME VERSION SPECIFICATION AND CODES CHARACTERS
MARIT 3,6,7 Marital status
1 = single
2 = married or cohabitating
3 = separated or divorced
4 = widowed
5 = other
9 = insufficient data		 |__|
EDLEVEL 3,6,7 "What is the highest level of education you have completed?"
1 = university or college or equivalent
2 = intermediate between secondary level and university (e.g. technical training)
3 = secondary school
4 = primary school only (or less)
9 = insufficient data		 |__|
SCHOOL 3,6,7 "How many years have you spent at school or in full time study?"
99 = insufficient data		 |__|

6.5.2. Categories of marital status

Data on marital status was used as defined in data transfer format (Table 6.5.2.).

6.5.3. Categories of level of education

Data on level of education was used as defined in data transfer format (Table 6.5.3.).

6.5.4. Years of schooling

Data on years of schooling was used as defined in data transfer format (Table 6.5.4.).

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