Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Viet Nam, 1997 - 1998

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Reference ID

VNM_1997_VLSS_v01_M

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General Statistical Office (GSO)

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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Why not looked for work in last 7 days? (s4aq12)

Data file: SCR04A

Overview

Valid: 9283

Invalid: 16395

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 12

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 22

End: 23

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 12

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Why did you not look for work in the past 7 days

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Illness	387	4.2%
2	Disabled	122	1.3%
3	Too old/retired	1255	13.5%
4	Don't want to work	55	0.6%
5	Student	5561	59.9%
6	Housework/childcare	544	5.9%
7	Too young	937	10.1%
8	Waiting for seasonal job	56	0.6%
9	Waiting to start new job	58	0.6%
10	Don't have work	118	1.3%
11	Don't know how to look	28	0.3%
12	Other reason	162	1.7%
Sysmiss		16395

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

The interviewer should record responses based on the answer of household members for Code 7; TOO YOUNG . It is not necessary that "too young" must be under 15 years of age. There are probably cases that a person of 17 years of age wants to work, and that work requires a certain age (E.g., 25), and they consider that they are too young to work, therefore they do not look for a job. After that, the interviewer has to record code 7 for this person.

Question post text

If answer is 4 - 12 > Goto question 14

Description

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Ask only household members aged 6 years or older.

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