The book provided a readership & research circle with a total of 26 selected writings, essays & papers of research staff of Vietnam Institute for Sociology that written in recent times. It is useful materials for reference. The book is composed of 2 volumes of 4 parts as following: 1 - General issues & problems on people. 2 - Research works on giving birth. 3 - Research works on mortality. 4 - Research works on immigration. Here are some the most representative ones: 1 – The issues of populace, employment & human resource's development in Vietnam today. 2 – Vietnam aging population & emerging problems. 3 – Vietnam urban poverty in 90s & emerging problems. 4 – Demographic & socio-economic characteristics of four ethnic minorities ( the Muong, Hmong, Dao & Giarai ) in Vietnam. 5 – Average age of a first marriage through the data of the General survey of population & housing in the year of 1999. 6 – The factors that affecting to marriage age of Red River Delta population. 7 – The perception of rural countryside women regarding number of children in a family: Changing trend & affected factors. 8 – The interval between birth-giving in some provinces of Red River Delta. By Nguyen Minh Thang, Charles Hirschman & Nguyen Huu Minh. 9 – Giving birth situation of the one Catholic family in Di Nau commune. 10 – Health & family plan in ethnic minority sector. 11 – Socio-cultural factors – impacts and efficiency of the mass media program on family plan in some Vietnam North ethnic minorities. 12 – Vietnam mortality model by age in the time of Doi Moi. 13 – Vietnam victims in the Second Indochina War – a new assessment. By Charles Hirschman, Samuel Preston & Vu Manh Loi. 14 – Mortality rate & child mortality rate in Vietnam demographic & health survey of the year of 1997. Model & interpreting capacity of economic hypothesis. 15 – Immigration & development in the context of Vietnam socio-economic Doi Moi. 16 – The State, market economy & internal immigration in Vietnam. 17 – Re-settlement population and some socio-psychological problems – the Case study from Vietnam Central. 18 – About the phenomenon of interim immigration in the village of Mo Trach. 19 – Immigration in the relation with fertility rate & family plan in Vietnam. … And many others.