NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Viet Nam (VNM) Coverage type Country Time period covered 10/2002 - 12/2002 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Health facilityHouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representative Summary The Vietnam Demographic and Health Survey 2002 is part of phase 4 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics commonly covered in DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adult mortality, Adverse effects of medical treatments, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Alcohol use disorders, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Assets, BCG vaccines, Beds, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Cannabis use disorders, Child anthropometry, Child labor, Child mortality, Children, Cocaine use disorders, Community health clinics, Community health workers, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Disability, Domestic migration, Drug consumption, Drug supply, Edema, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Fish, Folic acid supplements, Fruits, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health care prices, Health care use, Health education, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hearing loss, Height, Hemoglobin, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Illicit drug use, Immunization, Indoor residual spraying, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Injections, Insecticide-treated bednets, International migration, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Languages, Legumes, Length of stay, Limited mobility, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Marital status, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Meat, Medical equipment, Medicines, Menstruation, Milk, Mortality, Multiple births, Needles, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Nurses, Obstetrical equipment, Occupations, Opioid use disorders, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Patient counts, Pentavalent vaccines, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Physicians, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Pregnancy complications, Private health facilities, Processed foods, Processed meats, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Sense organ diseases, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Starchy vegetables, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Symptoms, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vegetables, Vision loss, Vitamin A deficiency, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Zinc Citation Contributors Macro International, Inc General Statistics Office (Vietnam) Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation General Statistics Office (Vietnam), Macro International, Inc. Vietnam Demographic and Health Survey 2002. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Apr 6, 2023