Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Viet Nam, 1997 - 1998

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Reference ID

VNM_1997_VLSS_v01_M

Producer(s)

General Statistical Office (GSO)

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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Was it a boy or a girl? (s8aq06)

Data file: SCR08A2

Overview

Valid: 13093

Invalid: 2

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 2

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 17

End: 17

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I would like to make a complete list of all the children you have given birth to during your life. Start with the first child

Literal question

Was it a boy or a girl?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	boy	6699	51.2%
2	girl	6394	48.8%

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

Here we don’t list names of all children in question 4 before asking questions
5 to 12, but we have to ask all questions from 4 to 12 for each child before proceeding to the next
child. The interviewer should make the respondent understand and only talk about their natural
children. Not respond for those living in the house but who are not their children (in case of a
shared household). The interviewer should also make the respondent understand that all
responses will be kept confidential, especially for an adopted child the mother doesn’t want
anyone to know about. It is stressed that the interviewer should try to make contact and interview
the selected woman without the presence of any third person.

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