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2019 General Census on Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 2019
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VNM_2019_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Central Population and Housing Census Steering Committee. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Personnel assisting with last birth delivery (VN2019A_BTHSTAFF)

Data file: VNM2019_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 326
End: 326
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">Part 1. Information on household members</span></p>

<p>KT6. Check Q3, Q4, and Q5 to define women aged from 10 to 49 (born since April 1969 to March 2009) then go to Q34; otherwise next person.</p>

<p>KT8. Check Q38: month, year of the last birth from 4/2017 to 3/2019 then go to Q41; otherwise go to the next person.</p>

<p>41. Who assisted your last birth delivery?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Health staff<br />[] 2 Village health or midwife<br />[] 3 Other</div><div class="i2">Specify ____</div><div class="i1">[] 4 No one</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Health staff
2 Village health worker or midwife
3 Other
4 No one
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h2">Part V: Instructions on how to question and record information on the census form</span></p>

<p><span class="h3">Part 1: Information about members of the household</span>
<br />Part 1 of the Census form consists of 41 questions, numbered sequentially from Question 1 to Question 41.</p>

<p>The respondent is the head of the household or a person knowledgeable about members of the household. For information on employment and birth history of women, DTV needs to interview DTDT face-to-face and collect information. In addition, for other information about members of the household, if the head of the household or the information provider is not knowledgeable, DTV also needs to interview DTDT face-to-face and record the information.</p>

<p><span class="em">Test 7 (KT7)</span>
<br />The test question is intended to identify women who have had the most recent birth within the last 12 months (April 2018 to March 2019) to proceed to Question 40; otherwise, DTV skips to test question 8 (KT8).</p>

<p><span class="em">Test 8 (KT8)</span>
<br />The test question is to identify women who have had the most recent birth within the past 2 years (from April 2017 to March 2019) to proceed to Question 41; otherwise, DTV asks the next woman.</p>

<p><span class="em">Question 41: Who was your midwife during your most recent birth?</span>
<br />DTV asks to identify the midwife for DTDT in her most recent birth.</p>

<p>The midwife for DTDT in her most recent birth might be medical staff, village health workers/village midwives, other people (relatives, friends, etc.), or "none".</p>

<p>Some notes when identifying the midwife:</p>
<div class="i1">- Medical staff: They are civil servants, public employees, or professionals in medical facilities (according to Clause 3, Article 3, Circular No. 22/2013/TT-BYT dated August 9, 2013 of Ministry of Health on the instructions of continuation training for medical staff).<br /><br />- Village health worker/village midwife: They are part-time workers in villages and hamlets. They are living and working permanently in the village/hamlet; voluntarily participate as village health workers or village midwives and have professional qualifications as prescribed by the Ministry of Health (according to Article 2, Circular No. 07/2013/TT-BYT dated March 8, 2013 of Ministry of Health on regulations, standards, functions and duties of village health workers).</div><div class="i2">- Village health workers must have a medical qualification from the basic level upwards or have completed a training course of 3 months or more according to the framework of the training program for village health workers of the Ministry of Health.<br />- Village midwives must complete a training course of 6 months or more according to the framework of the training program for village midwives of the Ministry of Health.</div>

Description

Universe
Vietnam 2019: Females age 10-49 who gave the last birth betweenn April 2017 and March 2019 [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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