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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
Producer(s)
Central Population and Housing Census Steering Committee. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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  • VNM2019_PHC-H-H.dat
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Literacy (VN2019A_LIT)

Data file: VNM2019_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 261
End: 261
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p>16. What is the highest level of education/training that [the respondent] has completed or graduated?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Under primary<br />[] 2 Primary<br />[] 3 Lower secondary<br />[] 4 Higher secondary<br />[] 5 Short term training<br />[] 6 Voc. school<br />[] 7 College<br />[] 8 University<br />[] 9 Master<br />[] 10 Ph.D. (Doctor)</div><p>KT2. Check Q16: Q16 = 1 (below primary) to Q19, otherwise to KT3</p>

<p>19. At present, can [the respondent] read and write?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Can read and write
2 Cannot read and write
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 2 (KT2)</span>
<br />The test question is intended to identify people with the highest education and training level who graduated/achieved below primary school (Question 16=1) to proceed to Question 19; with other cases (Question 16 not code 1), DTV proceeds to test question 3 (KT3).</p>

<p><span class="em">Question 19: At the moment, is [the respondent] able to read and write?</span>
<br />Ability to read and write: The ability to read and write a simple passage in daily life in the Vietnamese language, an ethnic language or a foreign language.</p>

<p>If DTDT can read but cannot write, DTV records the person's ability to read and write as "no".

Description

Universe
Vietnam 2019: Persons age 5+ who completed under primary, are attending pre-school, or never attended school [discrepancies: type I none; type II trace]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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