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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medicines readily available to satisfy the needs of the commune health center? (s24q13)

Data file: CMT24

Overview

Valid: 1470

Invalid: 13

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 6

End: 6

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

13. To what extent are the following medicines readily available to satisfy the needs of the commune health center?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Always or almost Always	884	60.1%
2	more than half the time	60	4.1%
3	Half the time	27	1.8%
4	Less than half the time	43	2.9%
5	Rarely, or never	456	31%

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

Asks about 10 types of common medicines
For this section, please take a look at the anthropometrists handbook on collecting prices
of medicines.
The specified types (units) of medicines are determined by those that are most common,
however in reality at the commune health station they may be different from those written
in the questionnaire. For example Ampicillin used to collect in the questionnaire is for 1
card of 10 capsules, 250mg each produced domestically in Vietnam. But, in reality at a
commune health station, Ampicillin is sold in 5 pill cards of 250 mg produced in Vietnam.
in this cases we should calculate the equivalent price for 10 pills if the quality and units of
the two types are the same. If the price of 5 pills is 10,000 dong, then the price of 10
would be 20,000 dong.
In the case that the quality is different, the country of production is different, and the units
are different, try to come up with an equivalent in order to calculate the price. For
example, if the clinic has vitamin A on capsules of 100.000 UI with the price of 2000
dong per pill, then the price of a 50.000 UI would be 1000 dong

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