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Labour Force Survey 2016

Viet Nam, 2016
Reference ID
VNM_2016_LFS_v01_M
Producer(s)
General Statistics Office of Viet Nam
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    VNM_2016_LFS_v01_M
    Title

    Labour Force Survey 2016
    Country
    Name Country code
    Viet Nam VNM
    Study type

    Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
    Series Information

    The national labor force reached to nearly 71 million persons in 2016, aged 15 and above, of which about 54.4 million people joined into the labour force (It is not included those people aged 15 and over who were currently not residing in Vietnam). Even the fact that the urbanization process has been going on, the rural labour force is continuously considered as dominant, currently accounting for 67,8% of total labour force.
    Abstract

    On 17 December 2015, the General Director of General Statistic Office issued Decision No 1160/QD-TCTK on the 2016 Labour Force survey, along with its survey plan. The purpose of the survey was to collect the information on 2016 labor market participation from those people who are 15 years old and above currently residing in Vietnam; regarded as a basic for aggregating and compiling national statistical indicators on labor, employment, unemployment and income. These results would support for ministries and branches assessing and comparing the changes in labour market among quarters within the reference year as well as with those of previous annual labour force surveys conducted by GSO. These results would be also considered as a basic to develop and plan policies on human resource development; activities of investment, production and business accordant with the development trend on labor market; as well as to access and apply International Labor Organization’s updated recommendations on labor and employment, especially in term of “labor under-utilization” into the reality of Vietnam. The statistics would be aggregated quarterly for the national and regional levels; and yearly for the provincial level.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis
    • Households
    • Individuals ages 15 and above

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the Labour Force Survey includes:

    • Household characteristics
    • Individual characteristcs for household residents ages 15 and above: main characteristics of the resident, economic activity status, employment characteristics, income from main job, unemployment/inactivity characteristics.
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Education ILO
    Primary Education ILO
    Health ILO
    Household Income ILO
    Employment ILO
    Unemployment ILO
    Informal Work ILO
    Other Work Activities ILO
    Tax Policy & Administration ILO
    Gender ILO
    Migration & Remittances ILO

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Whole country.
    Universe

    Population ages 15 and over (working age population).

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    General Statistics Office of Viet Nam Ministry of Planning and Investment of Viet Nam
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    Government of Viet Nam

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Sampling frame
    The sample of 2016 Labor Force Survey is the 2 stage stratified sample in order to ensure the presentative of quarterly aggregated statistics for the whole country, urban/rural, 6 social economic regions, Hanoi and Hochiminh cities as well as annually aggregated ones for 63 provinces/cities. Each province/city would
    constitute a main stratum with two sub-stratums namely urban and rural ones. The sampling frame is based on the 2015 Inter-censal Population and Housing Survey's selected enumeration areas.

    Sample size
    The 2016 Labor Force Survey was conducted with the sample size of 50.640 households/quarter, (that is, equivalent to 16.880 households/month). The sample size was designed and allocated to ensure the statistical significance/ preventative of quarterly aggregated statistics at regional level and annually aggregated ones at
    provincial level.
    Deviations from the Sample Design

    The sample of this survey is stratified into 2 stages and designed as follows:

    • Stage 1 (selecting EAs): Each province/city will constitute a main stratum divided into 2 sub stratums (of which, one will be representative for urban areas and the other is for rural areas). At this stage, list of provincial enumeration areas (the master sample frame – taken from the 1/4/2014 Inter-censal Population and
      Housing Survey’s 20% sample) will be divided into 2 independent sub-sample frames (urban and rural), and EAs will be selected by the method of probability proportional to size - PPS.

    • Stage 2 (selecting households): At each selected EA (that is determined in stage 1), after updating the EA and making the list of households, the updated list of households will be divided into 2 groups (defined as the upper/first and the lower/ second half of the list of households). Then, at each half, 15 households will be
      selected systematically.

    In order to improve the design efficiency and ensure to the reliability of survey sample, the sample will be selected alternately (under the 2-2-2 rotation). By this way, each EA will be divided into 02 rotational groups, whose households will be selected into sample in two adjacent quarters, and then excluded in 2 succeeding adjacent quarters, finally selected again into the sample in 2 following adjacent quarters. Each EA will be selected into the sample 4 times during a year at most.
    Response Rate

    Residence/Socio-economic region Total Male Female Labor force participation rate
    Entire country 100.0 100.0 100.0 77.5
    Urban 31.9 32.0 31.9 71.0
    Rural 68.1 68.0 68.1 81.0
    Weighting

    Because the sample was selected independently for each stratum according to the systematic random sampling method, the basic sample weights for the household data were computed as the inverse of the probability of selection of the household. For quarterly estimates, the population estimated at the ending time point of
    observation quarter will be based on. For example, the generalized results in Quarter 4, 2015 will be estimated from the population at 0h on 1/1/2016. The data used to calculate the quarterly weight is the one of 3 months in the reference quarter, while the data used to calculate the annual weight is the one of 12 months in the reference year. Department of Population and Labor Statistics have cooperated closely with the Statistic Informatics Center of Zone 1 to programme, calculate in details and check the accuracy of weights above for all EAs of the survey.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Single questionnaire covering:

    • Household characteristcs
    • Individual characterists for those ages 15 and over as well as information on economic activity or inactivity

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2016 2016
    Time periods
    Start date End date
    2016 2016
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    General Statistics Office of Viet Nam Ministry of Planning and Investment of Viet Nam
    Data Collection Notes

    The data was collected by the interviewers in the face-to-face interviews. For the household members who were temporarily absent, interviewers could ask other members of the household or use the official document provided by his/her relatives or local government to fill into the questionnaire.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Department of Population and Labour Statistics General Statistics Office of Viet Nam www.gso.gov.vn dansolaodong@gso.gov.vn
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes The information collected from the Labor Force Survey in accordance with Decree No 1287/QD-TCTK issued on 10 November, 2014 by General Director of the General Statistic Office - GSO will be used and kept confidentially as regulated by Statistical Law.
    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example: General Statiscs Office of Viet Nam. Viet Nam Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2016. Ref.VNM_2016_LFS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].

    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.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Department of Population and Labour Statistics General Statistics Office of Viet Nam dansolaodong@gso.gov.vn www.gso.gov.vn
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