Transcript General Statistics Office of Vietnam POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS IN VIETNAM 1.

General Statistics Office of Vietnam
POPULATION AND HOUSING
CENSUS IN VIETNAM
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.
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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 services for
researching and analyzing.
- A survey of 15 percent of the national population has been
included to expand the census coverage, reduce the cost.
- 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
- 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
++ Dwellings of households
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Contents of the Census Questionnaire
(contd)
+ Contents of the sample questionnaire:
++ Information on population
++ Birth history of women aged 15-49 years
++ Information on deaths
++ Dwellings of households
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2009 Census
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 EAs.
- Two types of maps: base maps and EA maps.
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Census Publicity
2009 Census
- Seted 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
2009 Census
- 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.
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The Census Data Dissemination
2009 Census
- Preliminary results were released in early August 2009.
- Expanded sample results were published in December
2009.
- It is planned that the completed results will be
disseminated in June 2010.
- Some in-depth monographs will be printed in late 2010.
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Summary
2009 Census
- Results of the 2009 Census is a bright colour picture in a
lively and profound way about the status of Vietnam’s
population.
- Over the past ten years, we have not only implemented very
well targets in reducing fertility rate, maintaining and
stabilizing population size but also fostered advancement in
improving population quality of the country.
- There are many more important and interesting issues to
continue to discover and analyse more details.
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