Hao Nguyen: [email protected]
This project dives into the impact of imbalance sex ratio at birth to population growth in Vietnam. In Vietnam, as well as in other Asian's developing countries, there often exists a larger number of boys being bornt compared with daughters. This is due to the influence of historical religious and cultural factors, as well as contemporary political and economical structures that these countries are currently in. In the case of Vietnam, the boy preference is further impacted by the Vietnamese government 2-child policy, where a family is supposedly could only have 2 children*.
While, the impact of male birth preference has been extensively studied in population and economics literature, this project is the first quantitative study that focused specifically on the impact of imbalance sex ratio at birth in Vietnam toward population growth. We hope that the results of the project would support policy makers in Vietnamese government in further improve and consider their population control policies.
The project will be run entirely in R 4.2.1.
Required R packages: readr, dplyr, tidyverse, readxl (more would be added until the project is finished)
Data is taken from the US Census Bureau, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Worldbank, the United Nations (UN), and the Vietnam General Statistical Office.
- IMF. (2023). World Economic Outlook: Vietnam Datasets [dataset]. https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/profile/VNM
- General Statistical Office. (2012). Results of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2010 [dataset]. https://www.gso.gov.vn/en/data-and-statistics/2019/11/result-of-the-vietnam-household-living-standards-survey-2010/
- General Statistical Office. (2022). Results of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2020 [dataset]. https://www.gso.gov.vn/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Khao-sat-muc-song-2020.pdf
- The World Bank. (2021). Contraceptive prevalence, any modern method (% of married women ages 15-49)—Viet Nam [dataset]. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CONM.ZS?locations=VN
- UNDP. (2024). Human Development Composite Indices [dataset]. https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/thematic-composite-indices/gender-inequality-index#/indicies/GII University of Minnesota Libraries. (2011). Population Growth and Economic Development. In Principles of Economics. https://open.lib.umn.edu/principleseconomics/front-matter/publisher-information/
- US Census Bureau. (2024). International Database [dataset]. https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/#/dashboard?COUNTRY_YEAR=2024&COUNTRY_YR_ANIM=2024