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Dear Sir/Madam,

Could you please advise me whether w_hiqual or w_qfhigh is a better (more accurate) indicator of the respondent's highest educational qualification? For instance, is the highest qualification of the 2168 respondents in the following table (code 13 in b_qfhigh_dv and code 3 in b_hiqual) O-Level or A-Level?

Your advice is urgently required and will be gratefully received.

Best wishes and many thanks.

Yours sincerely
Yaojun

. ta b_qfhigh_dv b_hiqual_dv if b_qfhigh_dv>=1& b_hiqual>=1

Highest educational |                       Highest qualification
        qualification | 1. Degree  2. Other   3. A-leve  4. GCSE e  5. Other   9. No qua |     Total
----------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
     1. Higher degree |     3,965          0          0          0          0          0 |     3,965 
2. 1st degree or equi |     5,667          0          0          0          0          0 |     5,667 
     3. Diploma in he |        17      2,723          0          0          0          0 |     2,740 
4. Teaching qual not  |         5        677          0          0          0          0 |       682 
5. Nursing/other med  |         4        854          0          0          0          0 |       858 
6. Other higher degre |         2         17          0          0          0          0 |        19 
           7. A level |         3        144      3,582          0          0          0 |     3,729 
8. Welsh baccalaureat |         0          0          9          0          0          0 |         9 
9. I'nationl baccalau |         0          1         45          0          0          0 |        46 
         10. AS level |         0          5        654          0          0          0 |       659 
   11. Highers (scot) |         0         77        410          0          0          0 |       487 
12. Cert 6th year stu |         0          4        109          0          0          0 |       113 
     13. GCSE/O level |         0        243       2,168     7,401          0          0 |     9,812 
              14. CSE |         0         14        278        275      1,095          0 |     1,662 
 15. Standard/o/lower |         0         36        146        480          0          0 |       662 
16. Other school cert |         0         24        131         82        962          0 |     1,199 
96. None of the above |         0        139      1,029        725      2,102      6,169 |    10,164 
----------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+----------
                Total |     9,663      4,958      8,561      8,963      4,159      6,169 |    42,473