general statistics office of vietnam the 2009 vietnam population and housing census

General Statistics Office of Vietnam

THE 2009 VIETNAM

POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS

The 2009 Vietnam Population and Housing Census

- 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.

Census in Vietnam 1. Population Census History in Vietnam


- 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.

2009 Census The Census Preparation and Legal Authority


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)

2009 Census Contents of the Census Questionnaire


+ 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)

2009 Census Contents of the Census Questionnaire (contd)


Questionnaires and materials formally used in the census

have undergone three pre-tests and one pilot before being

applied in the actual census.

2009 Census Pre-test and Pilot 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.

2009 Census Mapping and household listing


- 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.

2009 Census Census Publicity


- 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.

2009 Census

Recruitment and Training

of the Census Officials


- Used ICR technology to input 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.

2009 Census Data Processing and Tabulation


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.

2009 Census The Census Data Dissemination


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.



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.



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.



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.



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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THE 2009 VIETNAM

POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS

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