The nih_education data element records responses to the prompt, or a congruently meaning prompt, "What is the highest level of education you have achieved outside or in the United States?". Equivalent prompts are: - "What is the highest level of education you have achieved outside or in the United States? Grades roughly equivalent to years of school." RADx-UP - "What is the highest grade or level of school you have completed or the highest degree you have received?" RADx-Tech - "How many years of education have you completed?" RADx-DHT The values for this data element are integers that come from a list of 9 permissible integer values. The nih_education data element is the result of the harmonization of other RADx program data elements: edu_years_of_school RADx-UP; education RADx-Tech; dht_education RADx-DHT Note that the meaning of the value 97 is context specific and depends on the subset of permissible value used by a specific study (not all studies presented the full set of permissible values documented here for this data element). Therefore, the meaning of the value 97 in an individual data record MUST be determined by referring to the original data dictionary for the non-harmonized data in that study.

[NCIT:C17953] Education Level