General Statistics Office of Vietnam
THE 2009 VIETNAM
POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS
1. Population Census History in Vietnam
Census in Vietnam
- Census taking dating back many centuries.
- The first real census of an independent Vietnam was conducted late
in 1979.
- Internationally recognized census concepts, design features and
processing, was conducted in April 1989.
- The third census was conducted in April 1999.
- The last population and housing census has been conducted in 2009
with a reference time of the census is 00.00 hours, 1 April 2009.
The 2009 Vietnam Population and Housing Census
The Census Preparation and Legal Authority
2009 Census
- The 2009 Census was conducted under the Prime Minister’s Decision
No. 94/2008/QD-TTg on 10/7/2008.
- Its main objective was to collect the basic data on population and
housing of Vietnam to provide data to the policy makers and
researcher.
Two new strategies of the 2009 census:
i. A Sample survey of 15 percent of the national population has been
included to expand the census coverage, reduce the cost. The sample
provides data representative for the district level.
ii. Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) has been adopted for data
capture instead of manual data entry via keyboard.
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Contents of the Census Questionnaire
2009 Census
The 2009 Vietnam census is based on de jure basic and face-to-face
interview.
Two questionnaires were used: a completed (short) questionnaire and
a sample (long) questionnaire.
+ Contents of the completed questionnaire:
+ Information on population (individual characteristics, relationship
to hh. head, school attendance, ethnicity, religion)
+ Dwellings of households (construction material, areas, year of
use)
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Contents of the Census Questionnaire
(contd)
2009 Census
+ Contents of the sample questionnaire:
+ Information on population (add: place of residence 5
years ago, disability status, marital status, technical
qualification, economic activity)
+ Birth history of women aged 15-49 years
+ Information on deaths
+ Dwellings of households (add: room usage, fuel,
lighting, water, toilet facility, durable appliances)
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Pre-test and Pilot Census
2009 Census
Questionnaires and materials formally used in the census
have undergone three pre-tests and one pilot before being
applied in the actual census.
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Mapping and household listing
2009 Census
- Sketch maps and household listings is a basis for:
+ Distributing census resources.
+ Guiding enumerators to households.
+ Locating materials, questionnaires and stationery.
- Whole country is divided into about 172,000 Enumeration
Areas (EA).
- Two types of maps: base maps and EA maps.
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Census Publicity
2009 Census
- Set up a plan for the publicity campaign of the census.
- It was launched in March 2009, reaching its crescendo
during 15 March to 20 April 2009.
- It was broadcasted on radio and TV, in daily newspapers
both centrally and locally and even on the radio systems
of the village and urban-blocks.
- Telephone hot-lines were installed in both central areas
and localities.
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Recruitment and Training
of the Census Officials
2009 Census
- Enumerators were assigned according to specific
geographical conditions and EA size.
- Team leaders were appointed to directly manage
enumerators’ work.
- There were supervisors at the central, provincial and
district levels
- All census participants have been trained very carefully.
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Data Processing and Tabulation
-
Used
ICR
technology
to
input
2009 Census
information
directly
from
questionnaires to computers instead of using keyboards.
- Success of ICR technology will be the premise for its application in
other statistics surveys.
- The GSO in co-operation with computer Company have build
software, organized training courses, tested systems, and finalized
the software package for new TIS and e-Form software.
TIS (Top
Image System) is Israel Company providing service of ICR
technology.
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The Census Data Dissemination
2009 Census
i. Recognizing a critical component of the census data is
information that describe the data i.e. metadata which enhance
and support the quality of the produced census information.
ii. Metadata of the 2009 Vietnam census is focused mainly on the
category of users of the information, with limited or no experience
in statistics. The reasons for doing that have been many, the most
important being the fact that the number of those users has
increased rapidly during the past few years and still continuously
increasing.
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The Census Data Dissemination
2009 Census
iii. The following components of metadata is available in most products
of the census data dissemination:
- Definitions and concepts;
- Sampling design and Sampling errors
- Questionnaires
- Data collection and processing
- Classifications used
iv. All issues related to the census and census dissemination are
documented in a “Administrative Report of the Census.
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The Census Data Dissemination
2009 Census
Product of the census
a). Preliminary results were released in early August 2009.
It was published as a book titled “Implementation and Preliminary
result”. This publication contains two parts as follows. Part 1: Census
implementation, describing how the census activities have been
carried out. Part 2: Preliminary result, providing main figures of the
census, such as population size of provinces by sex, residence;
population growth by regions, etc.
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The Census Data Dissemination
2009 Census
b). Sample results: available in July 2009.
i. File of cross table (Country, Provinces, Districts);
ii. Pocketbook: 53 the most important indictors of the sample results;
iii. Analysis report.
iv. CD ROM: Store data and statistics data software for the sample
results of central level. Statistics data software have three main
following functions: 1. Looking up data; 2. Cross table module. It
allow user to tabulate desired tables; 3. Printing function. It makes
possible to print document or formatting data in other usable
formats.
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b). Sample results (continued).
v. CD ROM: Store data and statistics data software for the sample
results of each province
vi. Six monographs are being prepared. They are: 1. Education and
training; 2. Population sex-age structure and Nuptiality; 3.
Migration and urbanization; 4. Sex ratio at birth; 5. Population
projection in period of 2009-2049; 6. Fertility and mortality. These
in-depth analysis monographs will completed in December 2010.
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c). Completed results: available in December 2010.
i. File of cross table (Country, Provinces, Districts, Communes);
ii. Book: Some important cross tables of country and provinces;
iii.CD ROM: Store data and statistics data software for the completed
results of central level.
iv. CD ROM: Store data and statistics data software for the
completed results of central level.
v. It is planned that the cross table files of the completed results will
be posted in GSO website.
vi. It is planned that Data Warehouse of micro data will be built.
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General Statistics Office of Vietnam
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General Statistics Office of Vietnam
THE 2009 VIETNAM
POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS