Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Viet Nam, 1997 - 1998

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VNM_1997_VLSS_v01_M

Producer(s)

General Statistical Office (GSO)

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	relative or husband	2299	7.4%
2	friend	2923	9.3%
3	family planning clinic	10631	34%
4	other medical facility	5123	16.4%
5	school	216	0.7%
6	mass organization	3377	10.8%
7	mass media	6445	20.6%
8	other	259	0.8%

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.

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Children born alive: is a child born with signs of life (crying, breathing, heart beating,
movement of muscles) even with children who died after that a very short time.
Child born dead: is a child born without any signs of life.
Miscarriage: A pregnant woman, who during the period from the first month to the sixth
month of pregnancy, but the foetus comes out is called miscarriage. If the foetus is over 6 months
old, that is called premature delivery and should be listed in one of the two above cases.

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