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Demographic and Health Survey - 1993

Sri Lanka, 1993
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LKA-DCS-DHS-1993-v1.0
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Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)
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Ability to Read a Newspaper (Q112)

Data file: DHS93_Women

Overview

Valid: 2582
Invalid: 4496
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 3
Mean: 2.065
Standard deviation: 0.852
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 45
End: 45
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 3
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Easily 858
33.2%
2 With difficulty 697
27%
3 Not at all 1027
39.8%
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.
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