As for educational level, 18.8% had primary education or below, 40.1% had junior high education and 41.1% had high school education and above.
With respect to the educational levels of respondents, 8%% had no education, 12%% had primary education, 30%% had middle/JHS education, 19%% had SHS/vocational/technical education, and 31 % had tertiary education.
Most subjects were single (85.4 %) and had primary education (41.2 %); seven (7.5 %) had attempted suicide.
In 2004, 52.03% women were illiterate, 43.48% had primary education and 4.49% had secondary and above education.
For the households, 15.3 % have attained post graduate education; 41.6 % have acquired tertiary education up to undergraduate level, while 35.4%% had primary education and 7.7 % are illiterate.
Over 60%% of farmers had primary education, 18.5 % had achieved high school education, 1.5 % had college/university level of education while 17.5 % had no formal education.
The literacy rate of the respondents was 63%, of which 33% had primary education, 21% had secondary-level education and 9% had university-level education.
Second, if immigrants enrolled in secondary high school education in Sweden after they arrived, we assumed they had primary education before they arrived.
In terms of their educational background, 689 (53.04%) of respondents had attained tertiary level of education, 255 (19.63%) had received secondary education, 328 (25.25%) had primary education but 27 (2.08%) had no formal education.
The findings revealed that the majority (31 or 83.7%) of the interviewed women entrepreneurs had primary education as their highest level of education, while 4 (10.8%) of the women had secondary education and only 2 (5.4%) of the women had a Bachelor's degree level of education.
The educational level varied between the sites, with 30% of study participants at the urban hospital having had primary education or less compared to 18% of study participants at the rural hospital.
