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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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Relationship to the head of household (VN1989A_RELATE)

Data file: VNM1989_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 159
End: 159
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="VN89A401">2. Relationship to the head of household<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Head of household<br />[] 2 Husband/Wife<br />[] 3 Child<br />[] 4 Father/Mother<br />[] 5 Grand child<br />[] 6 Other family relative<br />[] 7 Non family relation</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Household head
2 Spouse
3 Child/child-in-law
4 Parent/parent-in-law
5 Grand child
6 Other relative
7 No relation
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="VN89A401"><span class="h3">2. Relationship to head of household</span><br /><span class="em">All persons in the household answer this question. </span><br /><br />2. Relationship to the head of household<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Head of household<br />[] 2 Husband/Wife<br />[] 3 Child<br />[] 4 Father/Mother<br />[] 5 Grand child<br />[] 6 Other family relative<br />[] 7 Non family relation</div><br />Relationship with the head of the household is one of the seven given relationships above. Interviewers only need to fill in the corresponding blank box.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Head: </span>If the interviewee is the head of the household, interviewer can fill in "x" on box 1 for the 1st person column.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Husband/wife: </span>If a person is the husband or wife of the head of the household interviewers fill in the 2nd box. Fill in the 2nd box even if they are not married, but they have lived together, including concubines. If the head of the household lives with 2 or more wives, all of his wives can be considered as his wives and fill in box 2.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Child: </span>Children of the head of the household include biological children, adopted children, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, and stepchildren.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Father/mother: </span>Includes biological parents, adopted parents and parents-in-law of the head of the household.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Grandchild: </span>If the interviewee is a grandchild of the head of the household, interviewers fill in box 5.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Other relatives: </span>If interviewees have other family relationships, such as brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles etc., interviewers fill in box 6.<br /><br /><span class="ital">Non-relatives: </span>If the interviewee is a servant, guest, friend, etc., without any family relationship to the head of the household, interviewers fill in box 7.<br /><br />If the head of the household (or the substituted head) in column "the 1st person" is different from the name in the middle top of the enumeration form, interviewers should define relationship with the head of household with the 1st person.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the relationship of the person to the head of the household.
Universe
Vietnam 1989: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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