Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Vietnam, 1997 - 1998

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VNM_1997_VLSS_v01_M

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General Statistical Office (GSO)

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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29. How does your household dispose of most of its garbage? (s6bq29)

Data file: SCR06B2

Overview

Valid: 6002

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 38

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

29. How does your household dispose of most of its garbage?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	collected by garbage cart/truck	1189	19.8%
2	burnt/buried	2811	46.8%
3	dumped in river/lake	345	5.7%
4	no fixed place	451	7.5%
5	use for fertilizer	1206	20.1%

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

Ask to record 1 main method of waste disposal of the household. The category
"collected by garbage cart/truck" includes waste dumping to a fixed place, which is carted away on a periodic basis

Question post text

if the answercode is 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, skip to the question 31

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