No significant differences were found in gender, age, degree or certificate of education or educational specialization amongst the four groups according to the Chi-square test.
Brito et al. [23] study the effects of the lack of birth certificates on educational attainment and conclude that birth under-registration reduces educational attainment.
Educational attainment was stratified into '<11 years of education' (included no qualifications and general certificate of secondary education), '11 13 years of education' (A-levels) and '16+ years of education' (included university degree or equivalent and beyond).
A binary variable was created contrasting individuals with high and middle educational graduation (higher educational entrance qualification, advanced technical college entrance qualification, general certificate of secondary education or polytechnic grammar school) versus low educational graduation (no school certificate or junior high school only).
26 Participants' highest educational qualification was assessed during the follow-up ranging between no formal education, simple school leaving certificate, clerical qualifications, O-levels (certificate of secondary education), Highers or Certificate of Secondary Education, National Certificate and degree level (7-point scale).
The percentage of children with parents with a low educational level, at maximum a certificate of secondary vocational education, was 16.9%.
Studies assessing the agreement of educational attainment from death certificate with that obtained by self- report have reported that death certificates record higher [ 5, 6] and lower [ 7] levels of education than that obtained by self-report.
Finally, we should be open to new forms of educational delivery – for example, with certificate programs for non-Cornell students.
Whilst the majority of educational staff had diplomas in special education, there were a few with certificates (n = 3) and degrees (n = 5).
