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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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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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  • VNM1989_PHC-H-H.dat
  • VNM1989_PHC-P-H.dat

Highest qualification or degree (VN1989A_EDUCQUAL)

Data file: VNM1989_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 173
End: 173
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="VN89A412 VN89A413 VN89A414 VN89A415 VN89A416 VN89A417 VN89A418 VN89A419 VN89A420"><span class="em">For persons born on or before 1-4-1984 [it should say 1976] (aged 13 and over) answer following questions</span> [applies to questions 9 to 13]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN89A412">9. a/ Highest qualification or trade<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 None<br />[] 2 Technical worker with certificate<br />[] 3 Technical worker no certificate<br />[] 4 Middle vocational education<br />[] 5 College/ university degree<br />[] 6 Post-graduate</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 None
2 Technical worker with certificate
3 Technical worker without certificate
4 Middle vocational
5 College/university
6 Post graduate
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
<svar v="VN89A412 VN89A413 VN89A414 VN89A415 VN89A416 VN89A417 VN89A418 VN89A419 VN89A420"><span class="em">Persons born before April 1st, 1976 (aged 13 and older) answer this question.</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN89A412">9. a/ Highest qualification or trade<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 None<br />[] 2 Technical worker with certificate<br />[] 3 Technical worker no certificate<br />[] 4 Middle vocational education<br />[] 5 College/ university degree<br />[] 6 Post-graduate</div><br /><span class="ital">Technical workers: </span>are persons with certain knowledge and skills to implement technical jobs.<br /><br />Persons who do not study at any technical training schools (do not have training certificate) but have some experience in their fields can be considered as technical workers.<br /><br />Criteria to consider as technical workers without certificate are, as below:<br /><div class="i1">In the public sector: persons with the 3rd technical level and higher.<br />In the collective and private sectors: persons who have worked for at least 5 years.<br />Note: technical workers who are at the 1st or 2nd technical levels in the public sector, or have worked in that job less than 5 years in the collective and private sectors are not considered as technical workers without certificate, interviewers fill out box 1.</div><br /><span class="ital">Middle vocational education, college, university, and post graduate</span><br />Doctor of philosophy or equivalent academic degrees is in box 6.<br />Persons who received on-the-job training or did an internship after university graduation are not considered as post graduate.<br />Persons with multi-degree: record his/her highest educational qualification.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the highest qualification or degree obtained by the person.
Universe
Vietnam 1989: Persons age 13+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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