Peer-reviewed article
The role of Household Welfare on Child Well-being in Vietnam
Thi Xuan Phuong Ngo, Thi Bao Yen Le, Trung Phung Le, Khanh Chi Tran, Thi Lan Anh Nguyen ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This study looks at how household welfare relates to child well-being in Vietnam. It uses OLS regression on secondary data from the 2020-2021 Vietnam Sustainable Development Goal Indicators for Children and Women survey, run by the General Statistics Office and UNICEF. The authors report that higher household welfare has positive effects on all six dimensions of child well-being they examine. They suggest recommendations to raise household welfare and make it more balanced across regions.
Key points
- Data come from the 2020-2021 Vietnam SDG Indicators for Children and Women survey (GSO and UNICEF).
- The analysis uses an OLS regression model.
- High household welfare has positive effects on all six constitutive dimensions of child well-being.
- The authors recommend increasing and balancing household welfare across regions.
Limitations
Only the abstract is available, so the six dimensions, effect sizes, and how welfare was measured are not stated. An OLS analysis of survey data shows association and does not by itself prove cause.
Abstract
This research analyzes the relationship between household welfare on child well-being in Vietnam. By applying the OLS regression model on a secondary data set from the Vietnam Sustainable Development Goal Indicators for Children and Women survey by the General Statistics Office (GSO) and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the period 2020-2021, research shows that high household welfare has positive effects on all six constitutive dimensions of child well-being. The research results serve as a reference base to provide some recommendations to increase and balance household welfare across regions, thereby improving child well-being in Vietnam.