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Roundtable Meeting on Programme for the 2010
Round of Censuses of Agriculture Bangkok,
Thailand, 28 November- 2 December,
2005Collecting gender sensitive data from
agricultural census of VietNam Presentation
by Luu Van VinhDeputy DirectorDepartment 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 IIIThe changes in gender data collection in
  next census

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Part IA technical summary of the last AC
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History of the past ACs

• The first AC conducted in 1994 with coverage
  Rural and Agricultural census
• Completed enumeration 12 mills questionnaires
• The second AC conducted in 2001 to collect data
  on
• Agriculture sector including forestry, fishery
  sector (aquaculture and capture),cooperatives and
  enterprises
• Rural information (community_ level data)
• 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)
• 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

• Coverage sampling survey at 1 Hhs selected in
  all provinces
• Data estimation at provincial and national level
• Items involved
• Living environment, water recourse, sanitation,
  Durable applicant
• Population, labor, major production activity
• Total revenue by sector and sub_sector
• 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 IIGender 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 Vietnams 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
• 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 IIIThe 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 planproviding 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 attentionAny more
information, kindly contact me at Email
lvvinh_at_gso.gov.vn