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edfeea2

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indresp

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Education: Recent Education and Training

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	21	0.15%
inapplicable	-8	13350	92.59%
proxy	-7	965	6.69%
Not mentioned	0	17	0.12%
Yes	1	66	0.46%
	Total	14419	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	21	0.14%
inapplicable	-8	13815	92.89%
proxy	-7	948	6.37%
Not mentioned	0	24	0.16%
Yes	1	65	0.44%
	Total	14873	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	34	0.22%
inapplicable	-8	14288	92.83%
proxy	-7	977	6.35%
Not mentioned	0	21	0.14%
Yes	1	72	0.47%
	Total	15392	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	48	0.31%
inapplicable	-8	14468	92.64%
proxy	-7	982	6.29%
Not mentioned	0	19	0.12%
Yes	1	100	0.64%
	Total	15617	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	18	0.11%
inapplicable	-8	14670	92.9%
proxy	-7	1014	6.42%
Not mentioned	0	21	0.13%
Yes	1	68	0.43%
	Total	15791	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	6	0.04%
inapplicable	-8	15274	94.06%
proxy	-7	891	5.49%
Not mentioned	0	23	0.14%
Yes	1	44	0.27%
	Total	16238	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	14	0.08%
inapplicable	-8	15598	93.98%
proxy	-7	889	5.36%
Not mentioned	0	29	0.17%
Yes	1	67	0.4%
	Total	16597	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	6	0.03%
inapplicable	-8	17980	95.3%
proxy	-7	801	4.25%
Not mentioned	0	21	0.11%
Yes	1	59	0.31%
	Total	18867	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	10	0.06%
inapplicable	-8	14981	96.01%
proxy	-7	522	3.35%
Not mentioned	0	24	0.15%
Yes	1	66	0.42%
	Total	15603	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	1	0.01%
inapplicable	-8	15106	96.69%
proxy	-7	435	2.78%
Not mentioned	0	30	0.19%
Yes	1	51	0.33%
	Total	15623	100.0%

Value label	Value	Absolute frequency	Relative frequency
missing	-9	2	0.02%
inapplicable	-8	10493	96.21%
proxy	-7	358	3.28%
Yes	1	53	0.49%
	Total	10906	100.0%

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