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2019 General Census on Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 2019
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Reference ID
VNM_2019_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Population and Housing Census Steering Committee. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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Difficulty remembering or paying attention (VN2019A_DISMNTL)

Data file: VNM2019_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 249
End: 249
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p><span class="em">The next questions are about difficulties a person faces when performing certain activities due to health reasons.</span></p>

<p>13. Does [the respondent] have any difficulty with:</p>
<div class="i1">(If yes: How difficult is it? difficult, very difficult or completely unable)</div><div class="i1">d) Remembering or paying attention?</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Not difficult<br />[] 2 Difficult<br />[] 3 Very difficult<br />[] 4 Unable</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Not difficult
2 Difficult
3 Very difficult
4 Completely unable
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">Question 13: Does [the respondent] have any difficulty when [...]?</span>
<br />This question is intended to gather information about difficulties a person may encounter in performing certain activities due to health problems/long term health problems, including difficulties due to the effects of old age, but does not include difficulties due to the children being young or not yet proficient in taking care of themselves (help from adults).</p>

<p>DTV asks about the conditions and level of difficulty of each person and in turn according to each ability, including vision, hearing, walking up the stairs, memory, self-care, and communication. Therein:</p>
<div class="i1">-Vision, even with glasses: DTV asked about the conditions and level of difficulty of DTDT when seeing. In case people have difficulty and have to wear glasses, DTV asks if they still have difficulty when wearing glasses and if so, the level of difficulty.<br /><br />-Hearing, even with a hearing aid: DTV asks about the conditions and level of difficulty of DTDT when hearing. In case people have difficulty and have to use a hearing aid, DTV asks if they still have difficulty when using a hearing aid and, if so, the level of difficulty.</div>

Description

Universe
Vietnam 2019: Persons age 5+ [discrepancies: type I trace; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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