The database of the Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) contains a comprehensive set of socio economic and technical data from 4,400 rural households in 440 villages, collected over up to 9 panel waves from 2007 to 2023, in six provinces in Thailand and Vietnam. TVSEP data include all important aspects of a household’s living standard measures, demography, geography, shocks, risks, expectations, subjective assessments and behavioral traits of individual household members. The figure below provides an overview of the modules of the household questionnaire.
Modules of household questionnaire
Next to the household surveys, interviews with village heads and migrant tracking surveys were carried out several times over the 15 years as well as a special COVID-19 survey in 2021/22.
For detailed information about the survey waves including the questionnaires (in English and local languages) as well as training and survey guidelines with descriptions of major variables, as well as descriptions of the main features of the waves, please go to 'Documentation'.
If you are interested in some major research topics and the publications that were produced by using the TVSEP data go to 'Research'.
Finally, if you want to request the TVSEP data for your research, please click 'Data access'.
The TVSEP featured data include selected key information on rural households in Thailand and Vietnam.
