A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES IN VIET NAM DURING THE 2010s

Abstract

During several decades, the scholarly has paid high attention to the topic of middle and working classes in the process of the rapidly on-going industrialization and modernization in Vietnam. The article firstly presents a model of the six occupation-based social classes. Then, using statistical results of the 2009 and 2019 Censuses and in the year books of the 2010s published by the Statistical Office of Vietnam, the paper outlines the quantitative figures of middle and working classes based on occupation in Viet Nam in the period 2009-2019. The analysis indicates that the size of occupational middle classes in Vietnam is low and it changes slowly in the 2010s. The share of managerial middle class is very small. The quantitative structure of technical middle classes seems to be unrational. Generally, there is no significant difference by gender in the occupational figure. However, the gender inequality takes place in the managerial middle class and in the non-skilled working class.