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1989 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1989
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VNM_1989_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1989 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Kinh ethnic group (VN1989A_ETHKIHN)

Data file: VNM1989_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 163
End: 163
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="VN89A405 VN89A406">5. Ethnic group<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Kinh<br />[] 2 Other than Kinh</div><br /><div class="i2">_ _ Specify</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No, other
9 Unknown
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
<svar a="all" v="VN89A405 VN89A406"><span class="h3">5. Ethnicity</span><br /><span class="em">All persons responding question 1 should answer this question.</span><br /><br />Interviewers can use the information given by the head of the household to fill out the ethnicity column for the rest of the household members.<br /><br />Children of a couple who does not have the same ethnicity, or an adopted child who does not have the same ethnicity than that of the adopting parents, or if any of the parents is a foreigner, respondents can define their own ethnicity if they are 18 years of age or older. If they are younger than 18 years old, their ethnicity can be defined either by the father or the mother.<br /><br />For those who are naturalized Vietnamese, they need to fill out box 2 and write down their original nationality in the blank space.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person belonged to the Kinh ethnic group.
Universe
Vietnam 1989: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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