Survey Methodology #2003-17 - The American Community Survey (Acs) En Espanol: Using Cognitive Interviews To Test The Functional Equivalency Of Questionnaire Translations - U.s. Bureau Of The Census Page 19

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Int:
¿Y después qué sigue?
Int:
And what comes after that?
Resp: La secundaria.
Resp: “Secundaria.”
Int:
¿Y eso abarca de qué año a qué año?
Int:
And that’s from what grade to what grade?
Resp: De primero a sexto.
Resp: From first through sixth.
Int:
¿Y despues qué sigue?
Int:
And what comes after that?
Resp: Un año de pre-universitario para los que quieren ir a la universidad.
Resp: One pre-university year for those that want to go to the university.
By asking these probes, it was possible to determine that in fact, fourth grade of secundaria in
Ecuador corresponded to the sophomore year in high school, which is the tenth year of school in
the United States. This was also apparent because after two more years, the respondent could
have chosen to go onto a university-preparation course for one year.
Although the initial
response was [fourth], probing showed it was not the fourth grade that corresponds to elementary
school in the United States, since fourth graders do not have the option of going to college after
the sixth year of schooling. The few responses that were not mapped onto the pre-coded
response categories were mostly for vocational education completed in a country outside the
United States. For example, one of the respondents had studied sewing for three years after
elementary school. She had a certificate in corte y confección [sewing], and worked as a
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