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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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Relationship to household head (VN2019A_RELATE)

Data file: VNM2019_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 220
End: 220
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p>2. What is [the respondent]'s relationship with the household head?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Household head<br />[] 2 Spouse<br />[] 3 Natural child<br />[] 4 Maternal or paternal grandchild<br />[] 5 Parents<br />[] 6 Other family relation<br />[] 7 No family relation</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Head
2 Spouse
3 Natural child
4 Maternal or paternal grandchild
5 Parents
6 Other family relation
7 No family relation
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 2: How is [the respondent] related to the head of the household?</span>
<br />Relationships with the head of the household include:</p>
<div class="i1">- Spouse: A person who is recognized by local law or custom as having a wife (or a husband), or living with a person of the opposite sex as a spouse. If a person has 2 or more wives (husbands) living together in 1 household, these people are all identified as the wives (husbands) of the head of the household.</div><span class="pg">[p.42]</span><div class="i2">Note: If the head of the household has 2 or more spouses living together in 1 household, these persons are all identified as the spouses of the head of the household.</div><div class="i1">- Biological children: A person born by the head of the household.<br /><br />- Paternal/maternal grandchildren: A grandchild of the same bloodline as the head of the household, born by the biological child (son or daughter) of the head of the household.<br /><br />- Parents: The person who gave birth to the head of the household, the parents of the spouse, the father-in-law/mother-in-law of the head of the household, or the adoptive parents of the head of the household or the spouse.<br /><br />- Other family relationships: A person who has a family or biological relationship but is not the spouse, biological child or parents of the head of the household. For example: Adopted child, stepchild of the spouse, grandparents, brother/sister, aunt/uncle, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, etc.<br /><br />- No family relationship: A person who is not related by blood, marriage, adoption, or family/relatives to the head of the household. For example: Friends, employees, tenants, domestic helpers, etc.<br /><br />For example: A family has 4 people, including 2 adults who are both soldiers, their eldest child is 10 years old and the second child is 5 years old. In this case, DTV recorded Question 2 as follows: the eldest child is "The head of the household" and the second child is "Other family relationships."</div>

Description

Universe
Vietnam 2019: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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