EDLEV is a derived variable in the
General Household Survey which was replaced in 2000 with edlev00. The most
recent description of the variable is available on the ESDS
web site (under General Household Survey, documentation) for the 98-99
GHS then search for EDLEV - but be warned its a fairly involved algorithm,
and you'll need to double check the contributory variables against the original
questionnaire and other derivations. All of this should be available in the
online documentation, which can be found by going to www.esds.ac.uk then selecting
major studies from the sidebar, then general household survey, then clicking
on the little notebook icon next to the appropriate dataset. The GHS
datasets listing can also be found on the ESDS web site. I've looked in
a few sets of documentation for an isced variable but have not been able to
find one. I'll happily search again, but to narrow down my search it would
help to know which years' data you are using (ISCED came into being more than
20 years ago!). It is, however, possible that the variable is not on the UKDA
version of the data. In the meantime, you may be interested in a UNESCO
document about ISCED I found using a straightforward web search.
