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Young Lives: School Survey 2011-2012, Round 1

Vietnam, 2011 - 2012
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VNM_2011_YLSSS-R1_v01_M
Producer(s)
Boyden, J.
Metadata
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Jun 09, 2016
Last modified
Jun 09, 2016
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Identification

Survey ID Number
VNM_2011_YLSSS-R1_v01_M
Title
Young Lives: School Survey 2011-2012, Round 1
Subtitle
Round 1
Country/Economy
Name Country code
Vietnam VNM
Study type
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Series Information
The first round of the Vietnam school survey was conducted in 2011-12 with a sub-sample of the Younger Cohort children studying in Grade 5 together with a sample of their peers. The final sample is formed of 3,284 Grade 5 pupils in 176 classes in 92 school sites (both main and satellite sites); 1,138 of these pupils are Young Lives index children. The survey was designed to take place in two waves, the first at the beginning of the school year, with a second wave of follow-up tests to assess progress towards the end of the same school year. It aims to offer information about the relationship between children's backgrounds and their learning progress during the school year in Maths and language.

A second round of the Vietnam school survey will take place in 2016-17, conducted in two waves at the beginning and the end of the school year.
Abstract
The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The purpose of the project is to improve understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty and examine how policies affect children's well-being, in order to inform the development of future policy and to target child welfare interventions more effectively. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India (in Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam. These countries were selected because they reflect a range of cultural, geographical and social contexts and experience differing issues facing the developing world; high debt burden, emergence from conflict, and vulnerability to environmental conditions such as drought and flood.

The Young Lives study aims to track the lives of 12,000 children over a 15-year period, surveyed once every 3-4 years. Round 1 of Young Lives surveyed two groups of children in each country, at 1 year old and 5 years old. Round 2 returned to the same children who were then aged 5 and 12 years old. Round 3 surveyed the same children again at aged 7-8 years and 14-15 years, and Round 4 surveyed them at 12 and 19 years old. Thus the younger children are being tracked from infancy to their mid-teens and the older children through into adulthood, when some will become parents themselves.

The survey consists of three main elements: a child questionnaire, a household questionnaire and a community questionnaire. The household data gathered is similar to other cross-sectional datasets (such as the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study). It covers a range of topics such as household composition, livelihood and assets, household expenditure, child health and access to basic services, and education. This is supplemented with additional questions that cover caregiver perceptions, attitudes, and aspirations for their child and the family. Young Lives also collects detailed time-use data for all family members, information about the child's weight and height (and that of caregivers), and tests the children for school outcomes (language comprehension and mathematics). An important element of the survey asks the children about their daily activities, their experiences and attitudes to work and school, their likes and dislikes, how they feel they are treated by other people, and their hopes and aspirations for the future. The community questionnaire provides background information about the social, economic and environmental context of each community. It covers topics such as ethnicity, religion, economic activity and employment, infrastructure and services, political representation and community networks, crime and environmental changes. The Young Lives survey is carried out by teams of local researchers, supported by the Principal Investigator and Data Manager in each country.

Further information about the survey, including publications, can be downloaded from the <a href="http://www.younglives.org.uk/" title="Young Lives">Young Lives</a> website.

School surveys were introduced into Young Lives in 2010 in order to capture detailed information about children's experiences of schooling, and to improve our understanding of:
- the relationships between learning outcomes, and children's home backgrounds, gender, work, schools, teachers and class and school peer-groups.
- school effectiveness, by analysing factors explaining the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in school, including value-added analysis of schooling and comparative analysis of school-systems.
- equity issues (including gender) in relation to learning outcomes and the evolution of inequalities within education

The survey allows us to link longitudinal information on household and child characteristics from the household survey with data on the schools attended by the Young Lives children and children's achievements inside and outside the school. It provides policy-relevant information on the relationship between child development (and its determinants) and children's experience of school, including access, quality and progression. This combination of household, child and school-level data over time constitutes the comparative advantage of Young Lives. Findings are all available on our Education theme pages and our publications page.
Further information is available from the Young Lives <a class="external" href="http://www.younglives.org.uk/content/school-survey-0" title="School Survey">School Survey</a> webpages.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Individuals
Institutions/organisations

Scope

Notes
The scope of the Vietnam Young Lives School survey includes:

- Schools: observation of site and class facilities
- Teachers: tests in ‘pedagogical content knowledge’ in the same subjects; assessment of 'teaching efficacy'.
- Pupils : tests in mathematics and Vietnamese reading comprehension; background, focusing on their homes, families and education-related resources and on their time-use, including time spent on homework and attendance at ‘extra classes’; Likert-scale assessment of ‘academic self-concept’ (comprising ‘academic effort’ and ‘academic confidence’) and ‘academic stress’.
Topics
Topic
General - Education
Literacy - Education
Youth - Social stratification and groupings
Primary, pre-primary and secondary - Education
Research - Education
Youth - Social stratification and groupings
Keywords
Keyword URI
2011
2012
ACADEMIC ABILITY Link
AGE Link
ATTITUDES Link
BILINGUALISM Link
BUILDING SERVICES Link
CLASS SIZE Link
COGNITIVE PROCESSES Link
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION Link
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS Link
EDUCATIONAL ADMISSION Link
EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE Link
EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATES Link
EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT Link
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES Link
EDUCATIONAL FEES Link
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Link
EDUCATIONAL TESTS Link
EDUCATIONAL TIMETABLES Link
EMOTIONAL STATES Link
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Link
FAITH SCHOOLS Link
GENDER Link
GOVERNING BOARDS (EDUCATION) Link
HOMEWORK Link
HOUSEHOLD INCOME Link
INCOME Link
JOB SATISFACTION Link
LANGUAGE SKILLS Link
LANGUAGES USED AT HOME Link
LANGUAGES Link
LITERACY Link
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION Link
MOTHER TONGUE Link
NUMERACY Link
OBSERVATION (DATA COLLECTION) Link
PARENTAL ROLE Link
PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS Link
PLAYGROUNDS Link
PRIVATE SCHOOLS Link
READING TESTS Link
SCHOLARSHIPS Link
SCHOOL BUILDINGS Link
SCHOOL MEALS Link
SCHOOL TIME Link
SCHOOLCHILDREN Link
SCHOOLS Link
SCHOOLTEACHERS Link
SOCIAL ATTITUDES Link
SPANISH (LANGUAGE) Link
STATE SCHOOLS Link
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS (BUILDINGS) Link
STUDENT ATTITUDE Link
STUDENT PARTICIPATION Link
TEACHER TRAINING Link
TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP Link
TEACHING AIDS Link
TEACHING MATERIALS Link
TEACHING METHODS Link
TEXTBOOKS Link
TRAVELLING TIME Link
VIET NAM Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Lao Cai
Hung Yen
Danang
Phu Yen
Ben Tre
Geographic Unit
No spatial unit

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Boyden, J. University of Oxford. Department of International Development
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Role
Department for International Development Funding
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Funding

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Multi-stage stratified random sample
The final sample is formed of 3,284 Grade 5 pupils in 176 classes in 92 school sites (both main and satellite sites); 1,138 of these pupils are Young Lives index children.
Weighting
No weighting used.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End Cycle
2011-10-30 2011-12-14 Wave 1
2012-04-18 2012-05-18 Wave 2
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face interview; Self-completion; Educational measurements; Observation
Data Collectors
Name Affiliation
Centre for Analysis and Forecast Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences
General Statistics Office Ministry of Planning and Investment

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The instruments included in the survey are:

Questionnaires - Wave 1

- School roster
- Class and teacher roster
- Child questionnaire (background information)
- Child Maths test
- Child language test (Vietnamese)
- Teacher questionnaire
- Teacher content knowledge test (Maths)
- Teacher content knowledge test (Vietnamese)
- Head teacher questionnaire

Questionnaires - Wave 2

Child class and peers questionnaire
Child Maths test
Child language test (Vietnamese)

Survey documentation and questionnaires will be provided shortly at http://www.younglives.org.uk/content/vietnam-school-survey

Access policy

Contacts
Name URL
UK Data Service Link
Access conditions
The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/conditions.aspx'>terms and conditions</a> for further information.
Restrictions
The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/conditions.aspx'>terms and conditions</a> for further information.
Access authority
Name URL
UK Data Service Link
Location of Data Collection
UK Data Service
Archive where study is originally stored
UK Data Service
https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/Catalogue/?sn=7663&type=Data%20catalogue
Cost: None

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
Crown copyright held jointly with the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences and the General Statistical Office, Government of Vietnam. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_VNM_2011_YLSSS-R1_v01_M_WB
Producers
Name Role
UK Data Archive Metadata preparation
Date of Metadata Production
2016-06-09
DDI Document version
Version 02 (JUNE 2016). Initial version of the DDI (DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 7663) was done by UK Data Service in April, 2016.
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