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

South Africa, 2017 - 2020

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

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Stephen Taylor, Brahm Fleisch

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Department of Basic Education

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Which books do you mostly read? (w2_TQ_Q53_MostlyRead)

Data file: egrs-2017-2020-panel

Overview

Valid: 2734

Invalid: 593

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 1001

loc_end_pos: 1001

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Novels	482	17.6%
2	Children's books	390	14.3%
3	Online News	205	7.5%
4	Non-fiction	63	2.3%
5	Newspapers	180	6.6%
6	Religion	1168	42.7%
7	Magazines	237	8.7%
8	None	9	0.3%
Sysmiss		593

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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