Hanoi: The team of Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA), headed by Dr. Lam Do and Dr. Linh Nguyen, successfully completed the household and village head surveys in the three provinces in Vietnam (Ha Tinh, Thua Thien Hue, Dak Lak). A total of 2,200 households have been interviewed. Prior to the survey, the enumerator team was trained by the project coordinator Dr. Manh Hung Do from the Leibniz University Hannover in cooperation with the team from VNUA. To monitor and improve the quality of the survey data, a team of data checking assistants and field supervisors manually reviewed each questionnaire for inconsistencies in Vietnam.
Furthermore, to improve panel consistency, a team of six researchers from the Universities of Hannover, Göttingen and Cologne monitored the incoming data with a key focus on ensuring the congruence of member’s ID variables, along with verifying age, gender, education, and ethnicity for each household member to enhance individual traceability across waves.
