Early Grade Reading Study I 2015-2021 Secure Data
Waves 1-5 Merged

South Africa, 2015 - 2021

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zaf-dbe-egrssd-1-2015-2021-v1

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Stephen Taylor, Brahm Fleisch

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Department of Basic Education Secure Remote Access Data Enclave

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DDI/XML JSON

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Feb 25, 2025

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Feb 26, 2025

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how many books do you have in your home? (w5_b2_books)

Data file: egrs-1-2015-2021-panel-w1-5-with-emis

Overview

Valid: 2357

Invalid: 2181

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 98

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 6469

loc_end_pos: 6470

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 98

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. a few books (this shows 10 books)	1349	57.2%
2	2. enough to fill one shelf (this shows 20 books)	439	18.6%
3	3. enough to fill one bookcase (this shows 50 books)	255	10.8%
4	4. enough to fill two or more bookcases (this shows 100 book	103	4.4%
98	98. i have no books at home	211	9%
Sysmiss		2181

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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