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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39. your household hired labor for (s9dq39)

Data file: SCR09D08

Overview

Valid: 2475

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 10

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 9

End: 10

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Has your household hired labor for [..] in the past 12 months?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	A. Plowing/land preparation for annual crops	163	6.6%
2	B. Planting/tending annual crops	747	30.2%
3	C. Harvesting annual crops	1101	44.5%
4	D. Other work on annual crops	89	3.6%
5	E. Land preparation for perennial crops	51	2.1%
6	F. Tending perennial crops	120	4.8%
7	G. Harvesting perennial crops	151	6.1%
8	H. Other work on perennial crops	25	1%
9	I. Livestock raising	9	0.4%
10	J. Raising water products	19	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.

Interviewer instructions

Only calculate expenditures paid to hired labour by the household to do land
preparation, and harvesting for annual crops; land preparation, sowing, tending, caring for and
harvesting perennial crops as well as workers with working days for work related to animal
husbandry or aquaculture in the last 12 months.
If the hired labourers are part of hiring draft power, do not include in this question but rather in
question 33

If hiring labor includes rental of draft ani-mals or tractor, don't include it here. (put it in question 33) put an x in the appropriate box foreach item before going on to questions 38-41

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