PEDUC ISCED97 LIS recode 1 no schooling 1 2 1 year in education 1 3 2 years in education 1 4 3 years in education 1 5 4 years in education 1 6 5 years in education 1 7 6 years in education 1 8 7 years in education 1 9 8 years in education 1 10 9 years in education 1 11 10 years in education 1 12 11 years in education 1 13 12 years in education 2 14 13 years in education 2 15 14 years in education 2 16 15 years in education 3 17 16 years in education 3 18 17 years in education 3 19 18 years or more in education 3 REMARK about recoding : Although the codes are based on years in education, we exeptionally carried out this recode. The reason is that in other US datasets we have both the levels + years (see a.o. US2000). The frequency distribution corresponds well to more recent US datasets.