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Mongolia - PHC 2000

Reference ID	MNG-NSO-EN-PHC-2000-v1.0
Year	2000
Country	Mongolia
Producer(s)	National Statistical Office of Mongolia
Sponsor(s)	Government of Mongolia - GOF - Financial assistance United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA - Financial assistance
Collection(s)	Population and Housing Census
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Created on	Jul 18, 2013
Last modified	Apr 18, 2020
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Read_Write (P12_READ_WRITE)
File: person

Overview

Type: Discrete Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 1-2 Invalid: 9

Valid cases: 405895 Invalid: 2036822 Minimum: 1 Maximum: 2

Definition

Ability to read and write a short simple statement in Mongolian or any other language with understanding.

Universe

Persons aged 7 and over and who responded to the previous question as non-educated will answer to this question.

Source of information

Eligible member of household

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Literate	310366	76.5%
2	Illiterate	95529	23.5%
Sysmiss		2036822

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Are you literacy?

Interviewer instructions

Person who can understanding, read and write a short, simple statement will be considered as a literate person. It involve people who are able to read in modern and old Mongolian languages and any foreign languages. Person can not read in any languages will be considered as illiterate person.