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Vietnam Living Standards Measurement Survey 2008

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Mức sống hộ gia đình năm 2008
Provider 
General Statistics Office (Vietnam)
Tabulations only
Geography 
Viet Nam (VNM)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/2008 - 12/2008
Series or system 
Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Household
  • Longitudinal
Summary 

This survey, also known as the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2008 or VHLSS, monitored and evaluated the Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy, the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and Vietnam's socio-economic development goals. A household questionnaire and a commune questionnaire were used to survey the population on topics such as education, health and health care, employment, income, expenditures, housing conditions, and poverty.

Keywords 
Absenteeism, Agriculture, Assets, Crime, Crops, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Environmental hazards, Ethnicity, Family size, Fishing, Food expenditures, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health facilities, Health facility conditions, Health insurance, Health status, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household expenditures, Housing, Housing conditions, Income, Infrastructure, Literacy, Livestock, Loans, Marital status, Nurses, Outpatient facilities, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Poverty, Private health facilities, Private social assistance, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Roads, Sanitation, School conditions, School enrollment, Schools, Skilled birth attendants, Social problems, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Unemployment, Urban ambient air pollution, Waste disposal, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021