Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Viet Nam, 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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Present marital status? (s1aq07)

Data file: SCR01A2

Overview

Valid: 21767

Invalid: 6866

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 27

End: 27

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

for each person in question 1, ask 4-11

Literal question

Present marital?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Married	11447	52.6%
2	Widowed	1455	6.7%
3	Divorced	187	0.9%
4	Separated	148	0.7%
5	Never married	8530	39.2%
Sysmiss		6866

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

“Marital status” is the status at the time of the interview. The interviewer should
base the response on possible marital statuses recorded in the possible responses and the skill of
the interviewer to determine the true marital status of the respondent. In reality, they could reply:
for example single even though they are divorced or separated. “Married” includes all cases such
as registered marriage, religious marriage, ethnic traditional marriage without or without marital
registration; living like husband and wife but without registering marriage and not being married;
many wives...

Question post text

if the question is 2, 3, 5 >> question 10

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