Vietnam Life History Survey, 1991 (ICPSR 31101)

Version Date: Aug 10, 2011

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Principal Investigator(s):
Charles Hirschman, University of Washington; Tuong Lai, Institute of Sociology; Pham Bich San, Institute of Sociology

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31101.v1

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Summary

The 1991 Vietnam Life History Survey is a cross-sectional study conducted to examine households and individuals in Vietnam. A 2-part survey was conducted, the first part focused on the respondents' household as the unit of analysis, information was collected for up to 15 respondents, although most households had only 4 to 6 respondents. The second part of the survey focused on individuals, the respondent's position in the household and their personal background. In the Individual dataset, observations were collected for up to 15 of the respondent's siblings. The 2 parts examined 4 samples of about 100 households, each stratified by region and urban/rural status in Vietnam with the household survey containing 403 household responses and the individual survey containing 921 respondents. Demographic variables in the Household dataset include region, household configuration, socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity, appliance ownership, and house construction. Demographic variables in the Individual dataset include information on parents and siblings, familial occupations, ethnicity, sex, education, job history, marital status, and children information.

Citation

Hirschman, Charles, Lai, Tuong, and Bich San, Pham. Vietnam Life History Survey, 1991. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31101.v1

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Funding

Social Science Research Council. Indochina Scholarly Exchange Program

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

village

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1926 -- 1991

Date of Collection

1991-01-15 -- 1991-03-11

Data Collection Notes

  1. The Household and Individual datasets both contain unknown codes.

  2. All values of 98/9998 labeled "NA (Not Applicable)" and/or 99/9999 labeled "Missing", "DK (Don't Know)", etc. are recognized as missing values in the ICPSR codebook.

  3. Variables about a respondents life history were coded from their completion of a life history matrix. See original documentation for explanation of matrix.

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Study Design

Data on households and individuals generated from 4 samples of about 100 households each, stratified by region and urban/rural status. Part 1 (Household Data) was administered as a household survey and Part 2 (Individual Data) was an individual questionnaire.

Sample

There were 4 samples of about 100 households each stratified by region and urban/rural status. The 4 sample areas were: an urban sample from Can Tho (a city of 284,000 about 170 km south of Ho Chi Minh City in the Mekong Delta), an urban sample from Hai Duong (a city of about 110,000 about 50 kilometers east of Hanoi), a rural sample from Tien Tien commune, (about 6 kilometers from Hai Duong city), and rural sample from the village of Long Hoa near Can Tho in the south.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

All households in Vietnam.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual, household

Data Source

survey data

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

Survey data, household roster, and Life History Matrix. Part 1 contains 299 variables pertaining to household life. Specifically, variables in Part 1 (Household Data) include information on household structure, socio-economic factors, and household expenses. Part 2 (Individual Data) contains 2,192 variables pertaining to individuals inside of a household. These variables pertain to family life, employment history, and residence information.

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Original Release Date

2011-08-10

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Hirschman, Charles, Tuong Lai, and Pham Bich San. Vietnam Life History Survey, 1991. ICPSR31101-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-10. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31101.v1

2011-08-10 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.