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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2. name of the business. industry code (s10aq02m)

Data file: SCR10A

Overview

Valid: 3440

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 95

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 10

End: 11

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I would like some information about the trades, businesses, professional services and other self-employed activities of the members of your household.

Literal question

name of the business.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Agriculture and related services (including livestock)	66	1.9%
2	Forestry and related services	65	1.9%
5	Aquaculture (includes both raising, and catching seafood)	226	6.6%
10	Coal mining	0	0%
11	Oil and gas drilling and related services	0	0%
12	Uranium and Thorium mining	0	0%
13	Metal mining	5	0.1%
14	Mining for rocks, stone, sand, salt, fertilizer...	34	1%
15	Food and beverages	308	9%
16	Tobacco products	0	0%
17	Textiles and garments	235	6.8%
18	Fur processing and fur products (excluding garments)	0	0%
19	Leather tanning and leather products including wallets, seats, suitcases (excluding garments)	7	0.2%
20	Wood, bamboo, rattan processing and production of wood,	205	6%
21	Paper and paper products	7	0.2%
22	Printing and publishing (books, magazines, newspapers, and recordings)	4	0.1%
23	Coke, crude oil, uranium processingChemicals and chemical products (including pesticides, paints, pharmaceuticals, beauty products and synthetic fibers)	0	0%
24	Chemicals and chemical products (including pesticides, paints, pharmaceuticals, beauty products and synthetic fibers)	3	0.1%
25	Plastic and Rubber production and products	8	0.2%
26	Other non-metal mineral products production (glass, ceramics, cement...)	31	0.9%
27	Metal production and processing	23	0.7%
28	Metal products (non mechanical, non-electric such as tools, boiler, ...)	18	0.5%
29	Other equipment and machinery not specified elsewhere (pump, turbine, kiln, loading equipment, cranes)	1	0%
30	Office and computer equipment production	0	0%
31	Other electronic, electric equipment not specified elsewhere (electric generators, wires, batteries, lamps)	4	0.1%
32	Radio, TV, broadcasting and other communication equipment	2	0.1%
33	Medical and laboratory equipment, precision instruments, and meters (clocks)	0	0%
34	Motor vehicles and spare parts	2	0.1%
35	Other transportation equipment (boats, railroad, airplane)	1	0%
36	Furniture production	0	0%
37	Recycling, reprocessing (metal and other)	6	0.2%
40	Electricity production and distribution	1	0%
41	Extract, clean and distribute water	0	0%
45	Construction	64	1.9%
50	Vehicle sales, maintenance and repair; retail sale of gas	33	1%
51	Wholesale and agent sales (excluding motor vehicles)	118	3.4%
52	Retail sales (excluding motor vehicles);repairs of family appliances	1292	37.6%
55	Hotel and Restaurant	163	4.7%
60	Road, railroad and pipeline transport	183	5.3%
61	Water transport	17	0.5%
62	Airline transport	0	0%
63	Services in transport; tourist services	1	0%
64	Post and telecommunications	4	0.1%
65	Financial intermediary (excluding insurance and social welfare)	1	0%
66	Insurance and pensions (excluding social insurance)	0	0%
67	Assistance in finance (including social insurance)	2	0.1%
70	Science and technology activities	1	0%
71	Real Estate	2	0.1%
72	Rental of equipment, household goods	14	0.4%
73	Computer-related activities	0	0%
74	Other business activities (accounting, tax and other consulting, architecture, advertising, protection, housecleaning, photography, packaging, etc)	35	1%
75	Government administration and national defense (includes police)	0	0%
80	Education and training	15	0.4%
85	Social relief (hospital, clinic, veterinary care, relief work)	44	1.3%
90	Culture and sports (broadcasting, movies, entertainment, newspapers, library, museums, sports...)	25	0.7%
91	Communist party, mass organizations, professional associations	0	0%
92	Public sanitation, garbage collection	22	0.6%
93	Other services (ironing, laundry, haircutting, funerals, other)	133	3.9%
95	Personal services provided at the home of client	9	0.3%
99	Activities of foreign organizations	0	0%

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

Recorded by team leader before handing the questionnaire to the interviewer.
The interviewer starts from question 4

Description

Definition

Activity or occupation is a self-employed economic activity of the household not including
agricultural, forestry and aquaculture production, including industrial handicrafts, sea product
fishing production, etc.…; sales of food, foodstuff, clothes and other goods etc.., services or
professional activities (private doctors, lawyers, carpenters, masons, etc.).

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