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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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Sep 03, 2025
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Class of worker (VN2019A_CLASSWK)

Data file: VNM2019_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 297
End: 297
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p>30. With the above-mentioned job, what was [the respondent]'s role?</p>
<div class="i1">(Read multiple choice)<br /><br />[] 1 Owner of the facility (can hire regular leaders)<br />[] 2 Self-employed<br />[] 3 Family labor<br />[] 4 Cooperative member<br />[] 5 Salary earner<br /><br />(If any is selected, skip to KT6)</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Owner of the facility
2 Self-employed
3 Family labor
4 Cooperative member
5 Salary earner
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">Question 30: With the above job, what is the role of [the respondent]?</span>
<br />This question is intended to identify the employment positions of DTDT. DTV reads 5 suggested answer codes and based on the answer of DTDT records information.</p>

<p>Employment positions include the following groups:</p>
<div class="i1">- Facility owner (with regular employment): People who manage, operate, and own part or all of the capital of a basic economic unit that employs or hires at least one paid employee.<br /><br />- Self-employed: People who work for themselves instead of working for other employers to gain wage/salary. Self-employed people generate their income through production and business activities that they directly carry out, including:</div><div class="i2">- Owners of non-agricultural, forestry, and fishery production and business facilities that do not hire workers;<br /><br />- Owners of agricultural, forestry, and fishery households that do not hire workers;<br /><br />- People peddling on sidewalks, traveling merchants, motorbike taxis, fixing tires, repairing cars, etc. (excluding people who are paid to do these jobs).</div><div class="i1">- Family worker: People who participate in production and business activities organized by their own family members and are not paid for that work.<br /><br />- Cooperative members: People who contribute capital and work together in cooperatives established under the Cooperatives Code.<br /><br />People who do not contribute capital but work for the cooperative are not cooperative members.<br /><br />- Salary earner: People who are hired by other organizations and individuals under agreements/contracts (labor contracts, employment offers, etc...) to perform one or a series of jobs to achieve the purposes of that organization or individual and compensated by that organization or individual in the form of wages/salary or in kind.</div><p>Some examples of identifying employment positions:</p>
<div class="i1">- DTDT drives his car to carry passengers and does not hire other workers, DTV identifies as "self-employed."<br /><br />- Husband helps his wife harvest latex. The wife works as a rubber farm worker. DTV identifies the wife as the "salary earner", and the husband as a "family worker."<br /><br />- DTDT is the head of the population group (with no other work) and receives a monthly allowance. DTV identifies this person as a "salary earner."<br /><br />- DTDT works as a domestic helper and is paid monthly. DTV identifies this person as a "salary earner."<br /><br />- DTDT owns a percentage of the capital of a basic economic unit but only earns salary at the unit and does not participate in the management and administration process. DTV identifies this person as a "salary earner."</div>

Description

Universe
Vietnam 2019: Persons age 15+ who did paid work in the last seven days, participated in production or business activities, or have a job to return within 30 days [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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