Population and Housing Census 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Viet Nam, 1999

Reference ID

VNM_1999_PHC_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1999 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Education qualification, 2 digit (VN1999A_0423)

Data file: VNM1999-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 197

End: 198

Width: 2

Range: 14 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Persons born before 4/1986 (13 years old or over) answer the following questions:

14. What field of study has (Name) completed with the highest degree?

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(Specify)
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Categories

Value	Category
14	Education science and teacher training
21	Fine and applied art
22	Humanities
31	Social and behavioral science
32	Press and information
34	Business and management
38	Law
42	Life science
44	Natural science
46	Mathematics and statistics
48	Computer
52	Engineering
53	Mine and mining
54	Manufacturing and processing
58	Construction and architecture
62	Agriculture, forestry and fishery
64	Veterinary
72	Health
76	Social affaire
81	Hotel, tourism, sport and other personnel services
84	Transport
85	Environment and environment protection
86	National security and defense
98	Unknown
99	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

Questions 13 to 18: Only ask persons who were born before April, 1986 (aged 13 years and older) (Persons who were born in 1986 and do not have month of birth in question 4 should also answer these questions).

Question 14: What field of study has (name) completed with the highest degree?

This question is only asked among those who have code "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", or "8" in question 13.

Field of study which a person has completed is the field of study listed in his/her certificate and reported in question 13.

Note: if a person has various certificates at the same level of education, interviewers record his/her field of study for the current job. In a case that person doesn't work on any of his/her field of study in school, interviewers record his/her most likeable field of study or field of occupation that person worked before being retired (if a retired person), or field of occupation that s/he worked before quitting these trained field of study.

Those who have not had formal technical/professional training and receive official technical/professional certificate of their skill level from local authorities can claim their "field of study" as the field of occupation in which they receive official certificate of skill level.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the educational speciality of the person [2 digits].

Universe

Persons with qualifications

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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