Vietnam Population and AIDS Indicator Survey 2005 ... - Measure DHS

Table 8.5 Succession planning
Percentage of de facto women and men age 15-49 who are primary caregivers for
children under age 18 years, and among them, percentage who made arrangements for
someone to take care of these children in the event that they fall sick or are unable to
take care of them, by selected background characteristics, Vietnam 2005
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Primary caregivers Succession arrangements
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Percentage of
women and
men who are
primary
caregivers
All women
and men
age 15-49
Percentage of
caregivers who
have made
succession
arrangements 1
Number of
primary
caregivers
Background
characteristic
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Age
15-24 13.5 4,877 45.5 658
25-29 68.8 1,851 47.3 1,274
30-39 90.5 3,716 46.1 3,363
40-49 88.2 3,553 39.9 3,134
Sex
Women 63.6 7,289 40.0 4,635
Men 56.6 6,707 48.8 3,794
Education
Never attended school 78.8 641 47.4 505
Primary 71.5 2,789 44.1 1,994
Secondary 57.0 9,211 43.5 5,251
More than secondary 50.1 1,355 44.4 679
Wealth quintile
Lowest 65.9 2,566 45.4 1,692
Second 63.0 2,662 47.2 1,676
Middle 57.6 2,886 41.9 1,662
Fourth 59.2 2,885 40.7 1,708
Highest 56.4 2,997 44.5 1,690
Residence
Urban 54.7 2,953 53.9 1,616
Rural 61.7 11,043 41.6 6,814
Region
North 63.9 5,257 33.4 3,361
Central 60.3 3,543 72.6 2,136
South 56.4 5,196 35.1 2,932
Targeted provinces
Ha Noi 54.8 453 33.4 249
Ho Chi Minh City 48.1 911 69.0 439
Hai Phong 59.4 308 48.8 183
Quang Ninh 65.2 193 78.2 126
Total 60.2 13,996 44.0 8,429
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Note: Table is based on de facto household members, persons who slept in household
the night preceding the interview.
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Corresponds to UNICEF-OVC Strengthening the capacity of families to protect and
care for children Indicator A4 “Succession Planning”
8.8 PROPERTY DISPOSSESSION
The situation of a wife losing her husband and a child losing his/her father can be made more dire
when family members, in the absence of the husband/father, dispossess the wife of her belongings.
Around the globe, it is not uncommon for widows and their children to be denied an inheritance, whether
through common law or religious law. Even where laws for property transfer exist, enforcement of such
laws may be weak. An increasing number of countries are establishing and harmonising legislation to
give women and dependent children inheritance rights when their husbands/fathers die.
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