{"doc_desc":{"title":"VNM_2011_STEP-EMP_v01_M","idno":"DDI_VNM_2011_STEP-EMP_v01_M_WB","producers":[{"name":"Development Data Group","abbreviation":"DECDG","affiliation":"World Bank","role":"Documentation of the study"},{"name":"JOBS - CCSA - IBRD","abbreviation":"GPSJB","affiliation":"World Bank","role":"Documentation of the study"}],"prod_date":"2016-02-24","version_statement":{"version":"v01 (February 2016)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"VNM_2011_STEP-EMP_v01_M","title":"STEP Skills Measurement Employer Survey 2011 (Wave 1)","alt_title":"STEP-EMP 2011","identifiers":[{"type":"DOI","identifier":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48529\/g02g-ke15"}]},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"World Bank","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Alexandria Valerio","affiliation":"Education Global Practice, World Bank","role":"STEP Co-Task Team Leader"},{"name":"Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta","affiliation":"Social Protection and Labor Global Practice, World Bank","role":"STEP Co-Task Team Leader"},{"name":"Tania Rajadel","affiliation":"World Bank Consultant, Project Coordinator ","role":"Technical assistance in project management, data collection, data processing and data analysis"},{"name":"Gaelle Pierre","affiliation":"World Bank Consultant, Senior Labor Economist","role":"Technical assistance in project management, data collection, data processing and data analysis"},{"name":"Owen Powers","affiliation":"World Bank Consultant, Survey Consultant","role":"Technical assistance in questionnaire design, sampling methodology, and data collection"},{"name":"Valerie Evans","affiliation":"World Bank Consultant, Survey Consultant","role":"Technical assistance in questionnaire design, sampling methodology, and data collection"},{"name":"Sebastian Monroy Taborda","affiliation":"World Bank Consultant, Research Analyst","role":"Technical assistance in data processing and data analysis"}],"funding_agencies":[{"name":"Multi-Donor Trust Fund Labor Markets, Job Creation and Economic Growth","abbreviation":"","role":""},{"name":"Bank Netherlands Partnership Program","abbreviation":"BNPP","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"STEP Task Team - Education Global Practice","affiliation":"The World Bank","email":"","uri":"http:\/\/go.worldbank.org\/4BNLP4Q4V0"},{"name":"Microdata Library","affiliation":"The World Bank","email":"","uri":"http:\/\/microdata.worldbank.org"}],"depositor":[{"name":"JOBS - CCSA - IBRD","abbreviation":"GPSJB","affiliation":"World Bank"}]},"series_statement":{"series_info":"These surveys are part of the STEP Employer collection. So far, two waves have been implemented in six countries. The third wave is underway. \n\nThe first wave started in October 2011 and was completed in December 2013. Sri Lanka, Vietnam, the Yunnan Province in China, and Azerbaijan were Wave 1 countries. \n\nThe second wave started in August 2013 and was completed in June 2014. Armenia and Georgia were Wave 2 countries."},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 01, edited anonymous dataset(s) for public distribution"},"study_info":{"abstract":"The STEP (Skills Toward Employment and Productivity) Skills Measurement program is the first ever initiative to generate internationally comparable data on skills available in developing countries. The program implements standardized surveys to gather information on the supply and distribution of skills and the demand for skills in labor market of low-income countries. \n\nThe uniquely designed modules in the Employer survey aim to assess the structure of the labor force; the skills (cognitive skills, behavior and personality traits, and job-relevant skills) currently being used; the skills that employers look for when hiring new workers; the propensity of firms to provide training (including satisfaction with education, training, and levels of specific skills) and the link between skills and compensation and promotion. The survey also captures background characteristics (size, legal form, industry, full time vs. non-standard employment, occupational breakdown), performance (revenues, wages and other costs, profits, scope of market), key labor market challenges and their ranking relative to other challenges, and job skill requirements of the firms being interviewed. An additional component of the survey conducted in Vietnam is a module on innovation designed to capture the characteristics of Research & Development (including factors related to product development and capacity building).\n\nThe questionnaire can be adapted to address a sample of firms in both informal and formal sectors, with varying sizes and industry classifications.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2011-11","end":"2011-12","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Viet Nam","abbreviation":"VNM"}],"geog_coverage":"Capital Hanoi and other urban areas","analysis_unit":"The units of analysis are establishments or workplaces \u2013 a single location at which one or more employees work. The larger legal entity may include multiple establishments.","universe":"The universe of the study are formal sector non-government enterprise workplaces included in the General Statistics Office Vietnam enterprise census 2009 and informal sector firms registered with provincial Departments of Planning and Investment (DPIs)","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The scope of the study include:\n- Firm background\n- Basic characteristics of a firm workforce\n- Skills used by current workforce\n- New hires (job-related skills, personality traits,  hiring procedures)\n- Training \n- Compensation\nAn added component in the STEP Employer Survey Vietnam:\n- Innovation"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Central Institute for Economic Management","abbreviation":"CIEM","affiliation":""}],"sampling_procedure":"The sampling objective of the survey was to obtain interviews from 400 non-government enterprise workplaces in the capital and urban regions of Vietnam. \n\nTwo-stage stratified random sampling was used in the survey. A list of businesses registered with the General Statistics Office Vietnam enterprise census 2009 served as the sampling frame for formal sector. Informal sector firms were drawn from a sample created using data from the Departments of Planning and Investment (DPIs).\n\nDetailed information about the sampling is available in the Vietnam Survey Implementation and Findings Report and Vietnam Employer Survey Weighting Procedure, provided as an external resource.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"The Questionnaire for the Vietnam STEP Employer Survey consists of six modules:\nSection 1  \u2013 Work Force\nSection 2  \u2013 Skills Used\nSection 3 \u2013 Hiring Practices\nSection 4 \u2013 Training and Compensation\nSection 5 \u2013 Background\nSection 6 - Innovation\n\nIt has been provided as an external resource.\n\nIn the case of Vietnam, the questionnaire was adapted to the Vietnamese context and published in English and Vietnamese.","coll_situation":"Each component of the STEP Employer Survey in Vietnam was carried out by a personal visit using a Paper And Pencil Interview (PAPI) method. The implementation language was Vietnamese. \n\nBecause the STEP program requires all surveys to be implemented in a standardized way, particular attention was provided to implementation processes: \n\n1)  Based on the STEP Technical Standards, the survey firms adapted and translated the STEP Employer survey instruments, the Interviewer Manual, and all training materials.\n\n2) Once the instruments had been adapted and translated, survey firms carried out a pre-test, usually including 8-10 interviews. Findings from the pre-test were discussed with the WB STEP team to finalize the adaptation and translation of the STEP survey instruments.\n\n3) The survey firm in Vietnam provided a 2-day training course to its enumerators, using training materials developed by the WB STEP team (after translation and adaptation). The WB STEP team's Survey Consultant helped organize the training. In addition, the WB STEP team in Washington DC provided just-in-time technical assistance, answering questions sent by the survey firm during the training. The training included in-field mock interviews in addition to in-class courses. \n\n4) As per STEP Technical Standards, data collection started within a few days of the end of the enumerators' training course. The composition of the fieldwork team is described in the Vietnam Survey Implementation and Findings Report, as well as reporting procedures and quality control processes. Weekly reports were sent to the WB STEP team, which provided just-in-time technical assistance during fieldwork to answer questions or concerns. \n\nInformation on the survey processes is provided in the Vietnam Survey Implementation and Findings Report, provided as an external resource. The document describes the project management structure, fieldwork teams and reporting processes.","act_min":"The data collection team consisted of a total of 11 interviewers and 2 Survey Managers. Each interviewer reported to a Survey Manager.\nSurvey Managers\u2019 responsibilities include:\n- Coordinating fieldwork in the assigned region\n- On-going monitoring of interviewers\u2019 work\n- Checking non-response, activation of reserves, problems encountered, and communicating regularly with the Headquarters\n- Submitting questionnaires and fieldwork tracking forms to Headquarters\n\nFor quality control, Survey Managers were responsible for:\n- Check each accepted questionnaire for completeness and accuracy before submitting to Headquarters","weight":"The Vietnam Employer Survey data was weighted in order to correct for imperfections in the sample that might lead to bias between the sample and the target population. Such imperfections include the selection of firms with unequal probabilities between strata, sample frame imperfections such as ineligible and duplicate firm listings, and non-response. In other words, the purposes of weighting are:\n\n1) To compensate for unequal probabilities of selection between strata;\n\n2) To adjust the target population size for ineligible and duplicate firm listings;\n\n3) To compensate for non-responding firms.\n\nThe weights were constructed as follows:\n\n1) A Theoretical Design Weight, TheorWtStr, was calculated for each of the 594 sampled firms. This is a stratum  weight based on the stratified sample design. Each sampled firm\u2019s Theoretical Design weight is the number of firms that each sampled firm represents in the sample frame. This weight is the inverse of the probability of selection in a stratum.\n\n2) The sample frame stratum population counts, PopnStr, were adjusted to take into account the number of ineligible firms in each stratum sample. The resulting adjusted stratum population size is the variable\u2018PopnStrAdj\u2019.\n\n3) A final population stratum weight, PopnWtFin,  was constructed by adjusting the Theoretical Design Weight,TheorWtStr for:\na. Number of ineligible firms in the sample\nb. Number of non-responding firms in the sample","cleaning_operations":"STEP Data Management Process:\n\n1) Raw data is sent by the survey firm.\n\n2) The World Bank (WB) STEP team runs data checks on the Questionnaire data. Comments and questions are sent back to the survey firm.\n\n3) The survey firm reviews comments and questions. When a data entry error is identified, the survey firm corrects the data.\n\n4) The WB STEP team again check to make sure the data files are clean. This might require additional iterations with the survey firm.\n\n5) Once the data has been checked and cleaned, the WB STEP team computes the weights. Weights are computed by the STEP team to ensure consistency across sampling methodologies.","method_notes":"Data entry processes, including team composition are described in the Vietnam Survey Implementation and Findings Report available as an external resource. In most countries, data entry took place at the survey firm's headquarters.\n\nQuestionnaire Data:\n- For the Questionnaire data, survey firms could use the World Bank STEP Data Entry Program (DEP) or design their own. In the latter case, the WB STEP team checked their DEP to ensure it complied with STEP Technical Standards. The STEP DEP was developed in Excel and mirrored the Questionnaire. Vietnam developed their own DEP on Excel. \n\nDouble data entry process was required. All range checks and skips were controlled by the program. Consistency checks were also included in the data entry program."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"An overall response rate of 63.8% was achieved in Vietnam STEP Survey. Detailed distribution of responses by stratum can be found in the Vietnam Employer Survey Weighting Procedure (Table 6), available as an external resource."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"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\nWorld Bank. Vietnam STEP Skills Measurement Program Employer Survey 2011 (Wave 1). Ref. VNM_2011_STEP-EMP_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date]","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":"DOI"}],"schematype":"survey"}