STEP Skills Measurement Employer Survey 2011 (Wave 1) - Viet Nam

Abstract
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The STEP (Skills Toward Employment and Productivity) Skills Measurement program is the first ever initiative to generate internationally comparable data on skills available in developing countries. The program implements standardized surveys to gather information on the supply and distribution of skills and the demand for skills in labor market of low-income countries.

The uniquely designed modules in the Employer survey aim to assess the structure of the labor force; the skills (cognitive skills, behavior and personality traits, and job-relevant skills) currently being used; the skills that employers look for when hiring new workers; the propensity of firms to provide training (including satisfaction with education, training, and levels of specific skills) and the link between skills and compensation and promotion. The survey also captures background characteristics (size, legal form, industry, full time vs. non-standard employment, occupational breakdown), performance (revenues, wages and other costs, profits, scope of market), key labor market challenges and their ranking relative to other challenges, and job skill requirements of the firms being interviewed. An additional component of the survey conducted in Vietnam is a module on innovation designed to capture the characteristics of Research & Development (including factors related to product development and capacity building).

The questionnaire can be adapted to address a sample of firms in both informal and formal sectors, with varying sizes and industry classifications.

Geographic coverage
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Capital Hanoi and other urban areas

Analysis unit
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The units of analysis are establishments or workplaces – a single location at which one or more employees work. The larger legal entity may include multiple establishments.

Universe
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The universe of the study are formal sector non-government enterprise workplaces included in the General Statistics Office Vietnam enterprise census 2009 and informal sector firms registered with provincial Departments of Planning and Investment (DPIs)

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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The sampling objective of the survey was to obtain interviews from 400 non-government enterprise workplaces in the capital and urban regions of Vietnam.

Two-stage stratified random sampling was used in the survey. A list of businesses registered with the General Statistics Office Vietnam enterprise census 2009 served as the sampling frame for formal sector. Informal sector firms were drawn from a sample created using data from the Departments of Planning and Investment (DPIs).

Detailed information about the sampling is available in the Vietnam Survey Implementation and Findings Report and Vietnam Employer Survey Weighting Procedure, provided as an external resource.

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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The Questionnaire for the Vietnam STEP Employer Survey consists of six modules:
Section 1 – Work Force
Section 2 – Skills Used
Section 3 – Hiring Practices
Section 4 – Training and Compensation
Section 5 – Background
Section 6 - Innovation

It has been provided as an external resource.

In the case of Vietnam, the questionnaire was adapted to the Vietnamese context and published in English and Vietnamese.

Cleaning operations
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STEP Data Management Process:

1) Raw data is sent by the survey firm.

2) The World Bank (WB) STEP team runs data checks on the Questionnaire data. Comments and questions are sent back to the survey firm.

3) The survey firm reviews comments and questions. When a data entry error is identified, the survey firm corrects the data.

4) The WB STEP team again check to make sure the data files are clean. This might require additional iterations with the survey firm.

5) Once the data has been checked and cleaned, the WB STEP team computes the weights. Weights are computed by the STEP team to ensure consistency across sampling methodologies.

Response rate
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An overall response rate of 63.8% was achieved in Vietnam STEP Survey. Detailed distribution of responses by stratum can be found in the Vietnam Employer Survey Weighting Procedure (Table 6), available as an external resource.

{'Abstract': '摘要
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STEP（就业与生产力技能提升）技能测量项目是首个旨在生成发展中国家技能可用性的国际可比数据的创新举措。该项目通过实施标准化调查，收集关于低收入国家技能供给与分布以及劳动力市场需求的信息。

雇主调查的独特设计模块旨在评估劳动力结构；当前所使用的技能（认知技能、行为和个性特征，以及与工作相关的技能）；雇主在招聘新员工时所寻求的技能；企业提供培训的倾向（包括对教育、培训以及特定技能水平的满意度）以及技能与薪酬和晋升之间的联系。调查还捕捉背景特征（规模、法律形式、行业、全职与非标准就业、职业构成）、绩效（收入、工资及其他成本、利润、市场范围）、关键劳动力市场挑战及其与其他挑战的相对排名，以及被采访企业的职位技能要求。在越南进行的调查的附加部分是一个旨在捕捉研究与开发（包括与产品开发和能力建设相关的因素）特征的创新模块。

问卷可适应不同规模和行业分类的正式和非正式部门企业的样本。

地理覆盖范围
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首都河内及其他城市地区

分析单位
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分析单位为机构或工作场所——一个员工或多个员工工作的单一地点。较大的法律实体可能包括多个机构。

总体
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研究的总体包括纳入越南国家统计局2009年企业普查的正式部门非政府企业工作场所以及注册于省级计划与投资部门（DPIs）的非正式部门企业。

数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]

抽样程序
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调查的抽样目标是获取越南首都和城市地区的400家非政府企业工作场所的访谈。

调查采用了两阶段分层随机抽样方法。越南国家统计局2009年企业普查注册的企业名单作为正式部门的抽样框架。非正式部门企业则根据计划与投资部门（DPIs）的数据创建的样本进行抽取。

有关抽样的详细信息可在越南调查实施与发现报告以及越南雇主调查加权程序中找到，这些资料作为外部资源提供。

数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]

研究工具
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越南STEP雇主调查问卷包含六个模块：
第一节 – 劳动力
第二节 – 使用技能
第三节 – 招聘实践
第四节 – 培训和薪酬
第五节 – 背景
第六节 - 创新

问卷已作为外部资源提供。

在越南的情况下，问卷根据越南国情进行了调整，并以英语和越南语出版。

数据清理操作
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STEP数据管理流程：
1) 原始数据由调查公司发送。
2) 世界银行（WB）STEP团队对问卷数据进行数据检查。将评论和问题发送回调查公司。
3) 调查公司审查评论和问题。当发现数据录入错误时，调查公司更正数据。
4) WB STEP团队再次检查以确保数据文件干净。这可能需要与调查公司进行额外的迭代。
5) 数据检查和清理后，WB STEP团队计算权重。权重由STEP团队计算，以确保抽样方法的一致性。

响应率
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越南STEP调查的整体响应率为63.8%。按层级的详细响应分布可在越南雇主调查加权程序（表6）中找到，该资料作为外部资源提供。'}