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Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2018
Sixth Edition

Zambia
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ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency
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literacy (mv155)

Data file: ZMCR71FL

Overview

Valid: 5560
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: 0 - 4
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
0 cannot read at all 1161
20.9%
1 able to read only parts of sentence 957
17.2%
2 able to read whole sentence 3430
61.7%
3 no card with required language 3
0.1%
4 blind/visually impaired 9
0.2%
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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