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17. If the respondent was born before April 1994 (15 years or older), [go to] Q 18; otherwise, ask the next [person]
[Questions 18-30 were asked of persons aged 15 years and over]


25. Does the establishment where you did the above mentioned work belong to an individual, household of individual production and trade, collective, private, state, or foreign investment economic enterprise?
(Household of individual production and trade includes agriculture/forestry/fishery and non-agriculture/forestry/fishery households)

[] 1 Individual (go to Q31)
[] 2 Household of individual production and trade (go to Q27)
[] 3 Collective
[] 4 Private
[] 5 State
[] 6 Foreign investment economic enterprise

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Questions from 20 to 30: These are questions on work during the last 7 days for persons of 15 years old or more. Thus, in order to collect exact information, the enumerator must have direct interviews with these persons.


Question 25: Does the establishment where you did the above mentioned work belong to an individual, household of individual production and trade, collective, private, state, or foreign investment economic enterprise?
The place at where a person is working can be only classified into one of the following 6 economic categories:

1. Individual: This includes individuals performing services without business registration according to the Government's decree number 88/2006/ND-CP, specifically:
  • Those who sell things on the streets, buy from afar, mobile business, individual services, except as specialized occupations such as medicine, pharmacy, etc.
  • Individuals who have free will work (he works by himself; he decides all), such as: bicycle repair, motorbike repair, Honda taxi driver, etc.). For a person who has defined his/her main work in the last 7 days as belonging to an individual, the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "1". He/she then moves to Question 31, not to ask Questions 26 - 30


2. Household of individual production and trade: This includes households who are doing agriculture/forest/fishing production and business, or non-agriculture/non-forest/non-fishing production and business headed by an individual, group of individuals, or a family household that have not registered as enterprises.

An individual production and trade household can produce more than one type of main product. For persons who participate in producing a type of main product, the enumerator records the name of the main product for Question 27.

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For a person who has defined his/her main work in the last 7 days as belonging to an individual production and trade household, the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "2". He/she then moves to Question 27, not to ask Question 26.

3. Collective: This includes:
  • Collective economic units, i.e. cooperatives, comprising: agriculture cooperatives, craft industrial cooperatives, construction cooperatives, trading cooperatives, service cooperatives, credit cooperatives (People's Credit Fund, etc.), etc., and their establishments are registered in accordance with the Cooperative Laws;
  • People's non-profit units: units of non-government social/occupational organizations and other non-government units. Budgets for activities of these units are contributed by their members.


For a person who has defined his/her main work in the last 7 days as belonging to a collective unit, the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "3". He/she then moves to Question 26.

4. Private: This includes enterprises which are established and operated in accordance with the Private Enterprise Law. Specifically it includes private limited companies, non-state joint stock companies, other private enterprises.

  • Private limited companies: companies where the owner(s) are private (100% private capital).
  • In-country joint stock companies companies where all of their shareholders are non-government organizations or individuals, or companies with government shareholders that do not hold control or special shares.
  • Joint state-private companies: these are enterprises, of which:

  • Should have at least two joint members; apart from joint members there could be capital-sharing members;
  • Each joint member should be an individual with high qualifications and high professional prestige, and is responsible for his/her property and the duties of the company;
  • Each capital-sharing member is responsible for his/her shared capital.

Joint state-private companies are not allowed to issue any kind of stocks.

  • Private enterprise: is an enterprise headed by an individual who is responsible by him/herself for all his/her property on all duties of the enterprise.


The type "private" also includes joint companies between one or more units belonging to Vietnam's private economy and foreign enterprises, organizations, or individuals. All owners and workers employed by private enterprises are classified as the type "private".


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For a person who has defined his/her main work in the last 7 days as belonging to a private unit, the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "4". He/she then moves to Question 26.


5. State: This includes:

a. Enterprise: State enterprises, state limited companies, state joint stock companies.

  • State enterprises are enterprises which are registered and operated in accordance with the State Enterprise Laws, comprising: state enterprises organized under the form of an independent enterprise, Corporations, enterprises of Corporations with 100% Government capital, joint companies whose members are in the Government.
  • State limited companies are one-member limited companies which were converted from state enterprises, or enterprises of the state's political or sociopolitical organizations.
  • State joint stock companies are joint stock companies where the Government is the shareholder with majority control stock holdings (Government stock accounts for over 50% of all stocks and is at least twice as great as the stock holdings of the other largest shareholder in the enterprise) or has special stock (Government does not have majority control stock holdings but has rights to decide some important issues of the enterprise according to agreements in the Enterprise Regulations).


b. Non-profit administration units, Party associations, mass organizations, other public associations: state offices, public administration units, semi-public administration units, units of political organization, sociopolitical organizations, socioeconomic organizations of the State.

  • State offices include legislative, judiciary and administrative offices.
  • Public non-profit units are units operating in the branches of health, education/training, culture, information, broadcast, television, or sport which were established on the basis of association between state organizations with non-state organizations or individuals. When established, all or part of a public unit was transferred to invest in the construction of material bases for managing and operating all activities in accordance with the laws.
  • Units of political organizations comprise offices of the Vietnam Communist Party.
  • Units of sociopolitical organizations comprise units whose main source of funds comes from the Government, such as: Fatherland Front, Trade Union, Women's Association, Youth Union, Veteran's Association, and Peasant's Association.


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  • Units of state socioeconomic associations comprise: Association of Letters and Arts, Association of Writers, Association of Theatrical Artists, Association of Lawyers, Medicine Association, etc., where their funds come mainly from the Government.
  • Units of other state associations comprise units other than the above mentioned units, such as: the Elderly Association; Association for Protection of Disability and Orphaned Children; Association for the Encouragement of Learning; Association of the Blind; Buddhist Association; other faith-based associations that have funds mainly coming from the Government.


For a person who has defined his/her main work in the last 7 days as belonging to a state unit (including those who are on the roll, contracted employees, and temporarily-recruited persons), the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "5".

For persons who are not on the commune's roll but are contracted to work for the Commune People's Committee (archiver, cashier, etc.) according to administrative working hours, they are counted as working for the state.

6. Foreign enterprise: comprises:
Enterprises with 100% foreign capital; representative offices of foreign agencies, companies, or enterprises; foreign and international organizations.

For a person who has defined his/her main work in the last 7 days as belonging to a foreign investment enterprise, the enumerator marks (x) in the small box next to code "6". He/she then moves to Question 26.