Variable hoheduca: Highest education level of head of HHold

Literal Question

What is the highest school class/standard that the person has completed?

Descriptive Text

On special enumeration questionnaires, instead of these three questions, a single column was included for ‘Highest level of education completed’. Thus, the information available on the educational level of people enumerated on special enumeration questionnaires is not as detailed. The variable ‘Highest education level’ summarises the information from the various questions on both questionnaires. South Africa has twelve years of formal schooling. These are currently referred to as Grade 1 to Grade 12. In some cases a preparatory year, Grade 0, is also available for children who have not yet started formal schooling. Prior to the introduction of the new grades there were a number of different systems for referring to the different school years. One system referred to Grades 1 and 2 as sub-standards A and B, and Grades 3-12 as standards 1 to 10. Another system referred to the last five years as Forms 1-5. In all systems the twelfth year is usually referred to as the matriculation year. In most systems the seventh year indicated the end of primary schooling. The questionnaire included the example, when asking for certificates, diplomas or degree, of ‘e.g. teacher’s diploma, BA degree or NTC III’). Diplomas and post-school certificates are sometimes available to those without matric. Higher education thus does not necessarily imply completion of formal schooling. In the publications post-school without matric is in the same category as post-school with matric. The category ‘Less than matric & qual’ is only applicable to people enumerated on household or personal questionnaires as information on the level of schooling of people with higher qualifications isn’t available from the special enumeration questionnaires. A problem with coding for special enumeration questionnaires meant that, originally, the same code was used for the categories ‘No schooling’ and ‘Other higher qualification’ – in the final data, persons 16 and younger were set to ‘No schooling’ while other persons were set to ‘Other higher qualification’. The variable is derived from census records for persons

Values	Categories	N	NW
1	No schooling	194508	2,055,940.4	22.7%
2	Grade 0	452	4,836.4	0.1%
3	Grade 1	2576	27,414.0	0.3%
4	Grade 2	5030	53,485.7	0.6%
5	Grade 3	22207	235,963.6	2.6%
6	Grade 4	32746	348,237.5	3.8%
7	Grade 5	34407	366,251.2	4.0%
8	Grade 6	43923	467,030.3	5.2%
9	Grade 7	60135	639,888.0	7.1%
10	Grade 8	80887	860,329.3	9.5%
11	Grade 9	41786	447,939.9	4.9%
12	Grade 10	72855	784,163.1	8.7%
13	Grade 11	34418	370,177.3	4.1%
14	Less than matric & certif/dip	16889	183,054.6	2.0%
15	Matric only	100206	1,089,635.0	12.0%
16	Matric & certificate	9918	108,495.6	1.2%
17	Matric & diploma	26778	290,421.4	3.2%
18	Matric & Bachelor's	15479	168,858.7	1.9%
19	Matric & Bachelor's & diploma	1607	17,476.4	0.2%
20	Matric & Bachelor's & honours	2125	23,231.4	0.3%
21	Matric & Master's	2919	31,732.5	0.4%
22	Matric & Doctor's	1374	14,881.6	0.2%
23	Other qualifications	7984	87,220.8	1.0%
99	Unspecified	35269	382,483.9	4.2%

Summary Statistics

Valid cases	846478	9059148.74
Missing cases	0	0.0
Minimum	1.0
Maximum	99.0
This variable is numeric

Universe

All households

Notes

On household and personal questionnaires, questions were asked on: - Highestschool class/standard completed; - Ant technical or artisan certificate, diploma or degree completed at an educational institution; - whether currently attending school, college, technikon or university full or part-time

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