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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
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Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 2009 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS
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Qualification (VN2009A_QUALIF)

Data file: VNM2009_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 204
End: 205
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar v="VN09A411 VN09A412 VN09A413 VN09A414 VN09A415 VN09A416 VN09A417 VN09A418 VN09A419 VN09A420 VN09A421 VN09A422"><span class="em">17. If the respondent was born before April 1994 (15 years or older), [go to] Q 18; otherwise, ask the next [person]</span><br />[Questions 18-30 were asked of persons aged 15 years and over]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="VN09A412">19. What is the highest qualification that [the respondent] has attained?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 No qualification<br />[] 2 Short-term training<br />[] 3 Trade vocational school<br />[] 4 Vocational school<br />[] 5 Trade college<br />[] 6 College<br />[] 7 University<br />[] 8 Master<br />[] 9 Doctorate</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 No qualification
02 Short-term training
03 Trade vocational school
04 Vocational school
05 Trade college
06 College
07 University
08 Master
09 Doctorate
98 Unknown
99 NIU (not in the universe)
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="VN09A412"><span class="em">Question 19: What is the highest qualification that [the respondent] has attained?</span><br />It is the highest qualification that the respondent had attained at a regular vocational education/training base, or irregular base such as: special courses, in-service training course, second diploma course, on-the-job training course, etc., including training at political, religious schools.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[pg.44]</span><br /><br />A person can only belong to one of the following:<br /><div class="i1">1. <span class="em">No qualification</span>: This includes persons who had not passed any vocational training courses and therefore had not attained any vocational training certificates.<br /><br />2. <span class="em">Short-term training</span>: These are persons whose highest qualification was obtained from short-term training courses of less than 3 months.<br /><br />3. <span class="em">Secondary vocational training</span><br />These are persons whose highest qualification was obtained from secondary vocational training.<br /><br />4. <span class="em">Secondary vocational education</span><br />These are persons whose highest qualification was obtained from secondary vocational education courses.<br /><br />5. <span class="em">High vocational training (trade college)</span><br />These are persons whose highest qualification was obtained from high vocational training.<br /><br />6. <span class="em">High vocational education (college)</span><br />These are persons whose highest qualification was obtained from high vocational education courses.<br /><br />7. <span class="em">University</span><br />These are persons who were educated at and graduated from universities.<br /><br />8. <span class="em">Master</span><br />These are persons who were trained at and graduated from places with a master"s degree.<br /><br />9. <span class="em">Doctor/PhD</span><br />These are persons who were trained at and graduated from places with a doctoral/PhD degree.</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's highest qualification attained.
Universe
Vietnam 2009: Persons age 15+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Education Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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