{"doc_desc":{"title":"VNM_2004_VHLSS_v01_M","idno":"DDI_VNM_2004_VLSS_v01_M_WB","producers":[{"name":"World Bank, Development Economics Data Group","abbreviation":"DECDG","affiliation":"","role":"Production of metadata"}],"prod_date":"2010-06-30","version_statement":{"version":"Version 01 (June 2010)."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"VNM_2004_VHLSS_v01_M","title":"Household Living Standards Survey 2004","alt_title":"VHLSS 2004"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"General Statistical Office (GSO)","affiliation":"Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"The World Bank","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"}],"copyright":"(c) 2004, General Statistics Office, 2004","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Japanese Bank for International Cooperation","abbreviation":"","role":"Funded the study"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Head (SESD)","affiliation":"Social and Environmental Statistics Department (General Statistics Office)","email":"nphong@gso.gov.vn","uri":"http:\/\/www.gso.gov.vn"},{"name":"LSMS Data Manager","affiliation":"The World Bank","email":"lsms@worldbank.org","uri":"http:\/\/go.worldbank.org\/QJVDZDKJ60"},{"name":"World Bank Microdata Library","affiliation":"","email":"","uri":"http:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org\/index.php\/home"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Living Standards Measurement Study [hh\/lsms]","series_info":"The Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2004 is the fourth of a series. Previously conducted rounds are: Vietnam Living Standards Survey 1992-1993 (VLSS 1993), Vietnam Living Standards Survey 1997-1998 (VLSS 1998), Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2002. From 2002 to 2010, the GSO conducts the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey every 2 years (in the years ending with even numbers)."},"study_info":{"abstract":"From 2002 to 2010, the GSO plans to conduct the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey every 2 years (in the years ending with even numbers) in order to monitor systematically living standards of Vietnam population's classes and at the same time, to monitor and assess the implementation of the Comprehensive Poverty Alleviation and Growth Strategy defined in the Country Strategy Paper approved by the Government Prime Minister. In addition, this survey also contributes to the evaluation of results of realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Socio-Economic Development Goals set out by Vietnamese Government.\n \nThe VHLSS 2004 includes topics which reflect the population's living standards: demographic characteristics, education background, professional\/ technical level, income, expenditures, use of health services, employment status, housing, amenity as possession, property, goods, electricity, water and sanitation conditions. In addition, this survey includes two new topics: \u201cAgricultural, forestry and fishery land\u201d and \u201cNon-agricultural, forestry and fishery sectors\u201d for more in-depth analysis. Technical assistance was provided by experts of the UN Statistics Division and the World Bank in designing questionnaires for the 2 new contents and sampling.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2004-05-01","end":"2004-05-31","cycle":"1"},{"start":"2004-09-01","end":"2004-09-30","cycle":"2"}],"nation":[{"name":"Viet Nam","abbreviation":"VNM"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"- Household\n- Individual\n- Community\n- Consumption expenditure item\/product","universe":"The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents).","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The scope of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2004 includes:\n- HOUSEHOLD: household characteristics, household listing, education, labour - employment, health and health care, income, consumption expenditure and consumption expenditure for living, housing, electricity, access to safe drinking water, sanitary and fixed assets, durable goods, income gap and inequality.\n- COMMUNE: Characteristics of commune."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"General Statistical Office","abbreviation":"GSO","affiliation":"Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam"}],"sampling_procedure":"Survey sample was selected, based on the Population and Housing Census 1999. The sample size included 45,900 households representative of the whole country, urban and rural area and 64 provinces. Survey sample was divided into 2 types: 36,720 households surveyed on income and 9,180 households surveyed on income and expenditures. The survey sample was sub-divided into 2 minor samples for data collection in 2 stages: the first in May 2004 and the second in September 2004.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"VHLSS 2004 questionnaires are developed based on the VHLSS 2002 questionnaires to ensure the comparability between two surveys. These are some changes in households and commune questionnaires. The major changes in the VHLSS 2004 household questionnaire are -- two additional new modules for long household questionnaire that are found in section 9 (additional section) and section 10 (non-farm self employment activities).\n\nThe questionnaires are structured as follows:\n\n- Section 1: Demographic characteristics (Roster)\n\n- Section 2: Education and vocational training\n\n- Section 3: Health and health care\n\n- Section 4: Income\n\n- Section 5: Expenditure\n\n- Section 6: Fixed assets and consumer durables\n\n- Section 7: Housing, water and sanitation\n\n- Section 8: Participation in the poverty alleviation and hunger eradication programme and credit\n\n- Section 9: Agriculture, forestry and aquaculture (expanded)\n\n- Section 10: Business other than agriculture, forestry and aquaculture (expanded)\n\nThe commune questionnaire consists of 10 sections:\n\n- Section 0: Survey information\n\n- Section 1: Demographic characteristics and general situation of the commune\n\n- Section 2: General economic status and assistance programmes\n\n- Section 3: Opportunity for non-farm employment\n\n- Section 4: Agriculture and land\n\n- Section 5: Infrastructure\n\n- Section 6: Education\n\n- Section 7: Health\n\n- Section 8: Public security and social issues\n\n- Section 9: Credit and saving","coll_situation":"Two pilot surveys were conducted: the first pilot survey was held in Vinh Phuc, Can Tho in October 2003, and the second in Yen Bai, An Giang, Binh Dinh and Ho Chi Minh City in February 2004.\n\nIn each district with an enumeration area, an enumeration team of 2-3 interviewers and 1 team leader was deployed. The team leader was the leader or experienced specialist from the District Statistics Office or Provincial Statistics Office.\n\nThe survey was conducted in 2 rounds: the first in May 2004 and the second in September 2004. \nTiming regulation: From the time of data collection until the form is submitted, each interviewer had 2.5 days to interview 1 household regarding income and expenditure, and 1.5 days to interview 1 household regarding income.","act_min":"Interviewing was conducted by teams of interviewers. Each interviewing team comprised of 3-4 interviewers. The team leader was responsible for organizing the entire survey process at designated areas, examine, collect all the survey forms conducted by interviewers, collect information and fill up the commune survey form."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"Social and Environmental Statistics Department (General Statistics Office)","affiliation":"Ministry of Planning and Investment","email":"xahoimoitruong@gso.gov.vn","uri":"http:\/\/www.gso.gov.vn"}],"cit_req":"Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:\n- the Identification of the Primary Investigator\n- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)\n- the survey reference number\n- the source and date of download\n\nExample:\n\nGeneral Statistics Office (GSO), Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2004 (VHLSS 2004), Version 0.1, Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Dataset downloaded from http:\/\/www.gso.gov.vn on [date].","conditions":"The 1992\/93 and 1997\/98 Viet Nam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), and 2002 and 2004 Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey data are the property of the government of Vietnam. Permission to use the VLSS data must be obtained from the General Statistical Office in Hanoi, Vietnam. The request should be submitted to:\n\nMr. Nguyen The Quan\nDepartment of Social and Environment Statistics\nGeneral Statistical Office\n2, Hoang Van Thu Street\nHanoi, Vietnam\nfax: 84-4-846-3511 or 84-4-846-4345\ne-mail: ntquan@gso.gov.vn \n\nThe request should include a brief (one page) explanation of the proposed research.\n\nTENTATIVE FEES FOR USE OF THE DATA\n\nFee for one data set\n\nA. For Vietnamese individuals and Vietnamese organizations\n   \u00b7 Vietnamese organizations with domestic budget: $US200* \n   \u00b7 Vietnamese organizations with financial support from foreign and international budget: $US400* \n   \u00b7 Vietnamese individual with own pocket money: $US100 \n*In the case of institutions, the fee paid allows many people\/projects belonging to the institutions to utilize the data.\n\nB. For foreigners\/ foreign or international organizations:\n   \u00b7 Foreign or international organizations: $US2000* \n   \u00b7 Individual foreigners using the data set for own research\/study\/lectures preparation: \n      \u00b7 Citizens of a developing country: $US200 \n      \u00b7 Citizens of a developed country: $US500 \n*In the case of institutions, the fee paid allows many people\/projects belonging to the institutions to utilize the data.\n\nFee for two data sets:\n\n1.5 times higher than the fee for one data set\n\nPAYMENT\n\nAn additional $US20 fee is required for shipping the CD-ROM by airmail.\n\nThe procedure on getting the VLSS data sets is as follows:\n\nPay the fee for data set(s) to the following account with a bank transfer. DO NOT SEND PERSONAL CHECKS:\n\nAccount name: TONG CUC THONG KE\nAccount number: 001 1 37 008159 0\nBank name: BANK FOR FOREIGN TRADE OF VIET NAM\nBank address: 23 Phan Chu Trinh Street, Ha Noi, Viet Nam\nOnce the bank confirms that the payment for the fee is available in the account, a CD-ROM with data set(s) and related materials will be sent to you by airmail.\n\nCONDITIONS OF USE\nThe user must respect the copyright of the data and should not allow other users to use the data without permission of the GSO. The user is requested to send to the GSO the results of use of the data at least one month before their publication.","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."}}},"tags":[{"tag":"noDOI"}],"schematype":"survey"}