Early Grade Reading Study II 2017-2020 Secure Data
Waves 1-5 Merged

South Africa, 2017 - 2020

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zaf-dbe-egrssd-2-2017-2020-v1.1

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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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Feb 25, 2025

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Q5.3.1. Reason absent: Illness (w3_TQ5_3_AbsentIllness)

Data file: egrs-2017-2020-panel-w-emis

Overview

Valid: 2380

Invalid: 947

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 14

Mean: 0.204

Standard deviation: 0.956

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 2365

loc_end_pos: 2366

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Value	Cases
0	2155	90.5%
1	117	4.9%
2	74	3.1%
3	7	0.3%
4	5	0.2%
5	9	0.4%
8	8	0.3%
14	5	0.2%
Sysmiss	947

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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