Roundtable Meeting on
Programme for the 2010 Round of Censuses of Agriculture
Bangkok, Thailand, 28 November- 2 December, 2005
Collecting gender sensitive data
from agricultural census of VietNam
Presentation by Luu Van Vinh
Deputy Director
Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Statistics
General Statistics office of VietNam
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Contents of presentation
• Part I: A technical summary of the last AC
• Part II: Gender data collection in the last AC
• Part III:The changes in gender data collection in next
census
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Part I
A technical summary of the last AC
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History of the past ACs
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The first AC conducted in 1994 with coverage
Rural and Agricultural census
– Completed enumeration : 12 mills questionnaires
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The second AC conducted in 2001 to collect data
on:
1. Agriculture sector including forestry, fishery sector
(aquaculture and capture),cooperatives and enterprises
2. Rural information (community_ level data)
3. Rural Household economic structure in_depth study on
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1. Agricultural and fishery sector
• Coverage: this is complete enumeration
– All HHs resident in rural area regardless economic activities
– Urban households engaging in agriculture, forestry, fishery
– All commercial farms (cut_off point on total land used or
number livestock, poultry and value of sales)
– All cooperative and enterprises engages in AFF
• Items involved
– Population and labor and main economic activities and income
resource of households
– Age, sex, education, primary economic activities of household
member
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1. Agricultural and fishery sector (cont.)
• Items involved (cont)
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Agricultural, forestry and water surface for aquaculture
Cage fishery
Permanent crop area
Livestock and poultry
Machinery and equipment
Capital, investment, tax, production value. income of
commercial farms
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2. Rural information
• Coverage: All lowest administrative units (communes,
some items collected at village level)
• Items involved
– Location
– Access to government services such as electricity, clean water,
credit, television, radio, communication, health care,
irrigation, schooling, transportation,….
– Household without land by causes
– The households under poverty lines and their production
facilities…
– Availabilities of cooperative and enterprise services
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3. Household economy
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Coverage: sampling survey at 1% Hhs selected in all provinces
Data estimation at provincial and national level
Items involved:
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Living environment, water recourse, sanitation, Durable
applicant
Population, labor, major production activity
Total revenue by sector and sub_sector
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Agriculture (crop, livestock and poultry )
Fishery (Aquaculture and catching)
Forestry …
Non_ Agriculture ( industry, transportation, trade, services…)
Development investment and savings
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Part II
Gender data collection in the last AC
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Role of women in rural and agriculture
• In Vietnam 76% of the population lives in rural areas
and more than 70% of the labor is engaged in
agriculture
• 95% (20 million) rural women work in agriculture.
They do
– 90% the work of crop cultivation
– 60% the work of harvesting and seeding
– 70% the work of livestock feeding and processing rural
• 60% outcome of Vietnam’s agricultural production
depend on the services of women
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Gender data collected in census
• Household member in laboring age but able to
work was collected in detail on
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Age, Sex
Education, Occupation trained level
Primary economic activity
Secondary economic activities
• Female-owned commercial farms and their
operation was collected
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Gender data collected in census (count.)
• Information on sex, age, education and occupation
training of women who took an important leading
position of local government in commune level
was collected
• However some variables by sex was omitted
– Holder
– Employment operated in commercial farm, in
cooperative
• Sub_holder and sub_holding by sex was unknown
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Gender data limitation
• Gender statistics also was a fresh activities
• Gender statistics also involved in 2001 census, but not
to much
This is one of biggest limitation that was found by data user in their
analysis on role of women in rural agricultural and fishery sector in
Vietnam
• The issue of gender analysis from census data was not
concerned just as phases of census preparation
• Not all variable that could be classified by sex was
designed in the census questionnaires
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Part III
The changes in gender data collection
in next census
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Gender data collection
in next census and surveys
• In keeping with the Goal 3 of the MDGs,VietNam
Government has developed a policy on women in
rural, agricultural and fishery sector,
• Followed up, General Statistics Office of Viet
Nam had a new plan in gender statistic in both
census and annual survey
• Goal of this plan:providing data users with data all
variables that could be classified by men and
women and by sectors and sub_sectors.
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Solutions
• Gender is collected in very census and survey conducted
by GSO and other institution
• Therefore all questionnaire of annual survey issued by
GSO was/is re_designed
• Data on household level not only by sex but also by ethnic
group.
• The variable by sex that omitted from the 2001 census is
added in the 2006 census such as holder, employment in
commercial farm and in co operative
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Solutions (cont.)
• Gender data on sub_sector and on sub_holder is
collected in sample survey:
– Crop yield and production,
– Livestock and poultry, fishery production
• Data will be tabulated by sex separately in data
processing and tabulation planning to make it
more convenient for data users
• Raw database by sex also is available for
subject_mater analysis and special gender survey
in future
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Thank you very much
for your attention
Any more information,
kindly contact me at Email: lvvinh@gso.gov.vn
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