A quantitative analysis of housing and its correlates in rural Vietnam

Abstract

Using data from the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, the current study ex-amines factors associated with housing conditions in rural Vietnam. We used both descriptive statistics and regression analyses. Controlling for other factors in the regression models, the study finds that households with better education and occupation were more likely to have larger sizes of housing area per person, higher value of the house and permanent houses. Also, the housing conditions are much better for the Kinh population (the ethnic majority) than that for ethnic minorities. In addition, we find that the opportunities for obtaining better housing outcomes vary largely across regions. Our research findings suggest that improving the access of ethnic minorities to education and better job are expected to improve the housing conditions.

Keywords

• housing conditions
• house type
• multinomial logit
• rural
• vietnam