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Table 2.7 Educational attainment of household population
Percent distribution of the de facto female and male household populations age six and over by highest level of education attended or completed,
according to background characteristics, Vietnam 2005
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Women
Men
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More
More
Never than Number Never than Number
Background attended Second- second- of attended Second- second- of
characteristic school Primary ary ary Total women school Primary ary ary Total men
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Age
6-9 4.3 95.7 0.0 0.0 100.0 860 3.7 96.1 0.2 0.0 100.0 894
10-14 1.8 29.0 69.2 0.0 100.0 1,541 1.3 30.9 67.8 0.0 100.0 1,626
15-19 2.7 12.4 81.6 3.4 100.0 1,376 2.2 10.2 83.7 3.8 100.0 1,497
20-24 5.2 19.6 55.0 20.1 100.0 1,127 2.9 19.1 60.9 17.1 100.0 958
25-29 6.0 23.3 58.2 12.5 100.0 959 4.4 24.9 57.9 12.9 100.0 922
30-34 7.4 21.6 62.9 8.1 100.0 1,014 6.9 20.8 63.4 8.9 100.0 908
35-39 7.3 22.8 62.8 7.1 100.0 1,004 4.9 18.0 68.0 9.1 100.0 844
40-44 7.3 25.8 58.6 8.2 100.0 1,003 5.2 19.7 65.8 9.3 100.0 891
45-49 7.1 29.6 55.7 7.6 100.0 884 2.7 17.7 69.5 10.0 100.0 825
50-59 8.2 37.5 45.0 9.3 100.0 686 1.7 24.5 60.1 13.7 100.0 580
60-69 11.0 45.5 34.0 9.3 100.0 441 6.1 34.4 48.5 10.9 100.0 351
70+ 35.4 52.8 9.6 2.0 100.0 1,266 10.5 48.7 32.6 8.0 100.0 852
Wealth quintile
Lowest 24.3 46.6 28.2 0.7 100.0 2,394 14.0 47.5 37.7 0.8 100.0 2,193
Second 9.5 38.7 50.7 1.2 100.0 2,511 3.0 35.8 59.7 1.4 100.0 2,290
Middle 6.1 31.3 59.2 3.4 100.0 2,504 1.6 26.3 68.2 3.9 100.0 2,333
Fourth 4.3 29.5 57.5 8.7 100.0 2,515 1.5 22.6 67.0 8.8 100.0 2,253
Highest 2.7 21.0 57.3 19.0 100.0 2,548 0.8 16.1 59.5 23.5 100.0 2,292
Residence
Urban 4.3 24.1 54.9 16.6 100.0 2,510 2.0 20.5 59.3 18.2 100.0 2,217
Rural 10.5 35.6 49.8 4.2 100.0 9,961 4.6 31.7 58.5 5.2 100.0 9,145
Region
North 11.2 27.1 53.7 7.9 100.0 4,828 4.1 24.2 62.1 9.7 100.0 4,192
Central 8.0 31.1 53.9 7.0 100.0 3,237 4.6 26.6 63.5 5.3 100.0 3,079
South 8.0 41.6 45.3 5.1 100.0 4,406 3.8 37.2 51.5 7.6 100.0 4,091
Targeted provinces
Ha Noi 5.0 16.8 54.5 23.6 100.0 409 1.6 12.2 57.1 29.2 100.0 372
Ho Chi Minh City 4.1 29.9 52.9 13.1 100.0 742 2.3 24.7 54.4 18.5 100.0 645
Hai Phong 4.6 22.1 64.8 8.4 100.0 278 0.7 18.9 70.2 10.2 100.0 243
Quang Ninh 8.0 26.6 51.7 13.6 100.0 167 2.9 25.1 59.0 13.0 100.0 154
Total 9.2 33.3 50.8 6.7 100.0 12,472 4.1 29.5 58.6 7.7 100.0 11,362
There is a clear correlation between education and the wealth index. This is particularly evident
among the populations with the lowest and highest levels of education. The proportion of the population
that has never attended school declines steadily with increasing wealth and the proportion of the
population with more than secondary education increases steadily with increasing wealth. For example,
the population in the lowest wealth quintile has the largest proportion that has never attended school
(14 percent of men and 24 percent of women). The population in the highest wealth quintile has the
largest proportion of its population with more than secondary education (24 percent of men and 19
percent of women). Households of higher wealth can more readily provide the investment required to
educate their children.
2.9 MALARIA
The enormous headway made by Vietnam’s Malaria Program during the decade of the 90’s in
controlling malaria is documented by Dr. Claudio Schuftan (Schuftan, 2000). The Program shifted its
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