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2009 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 2009
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VNM_2009_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 2009 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Urbanization (VN2009A_URBANIZ)

Data file: VNM2009_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 209
End: 209
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="VN09A023 " v="VN09A024">Urban/rural (urban=1, rural=2): _<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Urban special area
2 Urban grade 1 [most urban]
3 Urban grade 2
4 Urban grade 3
5 Urban grade 4 [least urban, but still ward/district town]
6 Rural
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
<svar a="all" v="VN09A023 VN09A024">(3) The line "Urban / rural": If the EA belongs to a ward or district town, then the enumerator puts "1"; if the EA belongs to a commune then the enumerator puts "2" in the corresponding box.<br /><br />Because the above mentioned identification information are the same for all households in an EA, in order to reduce the interviewing time in a household, the enumerator should fill out the above information in advance.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the urbanization grade of the area where the household is located.
Universe
Vietnam 2009: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography: O-Z Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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