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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4. What is the land area of this plot? M2 (s9a1q04)

Data file: SCR09A12

Overview

Valid: 14420

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 10

Maximum: 120000

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 11

End: 16

Width: 6

Range: 10 - 120000

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

exclude all land rented/borrowed from other households or rented/lent out to other households during all of the past 12 months; swidden land.

Literal question

4. What is the land area of this plot?

Interviewer instructions

Area of the land plot is calculated in square meters (m2
). If the respondent reports the
plot in a local measurement unit, the interviewer should transform it into square meters,
particularly:
1 mau (North) 10 sao 3600 m2
1 sao (North) 15 thuoc 360 m2
1 thuoc (North) 24 m2
1 mieng (North) 36 m2
1 thuoc (Central region) 33.33m2
1 mieng (Central region) 24 m2
1 sao (Central region) 500 m2
1 cong nha nuoc 1000 m2
1 cong tam lon 1200 m2
(cong tam cay)

Description

Definition

- Agriculture, forestry, aquaculture activities include activities in cultivation, animal
raising, afforestation, forest care and protection, aquaculture and farm produce
processing, processing of animal products, aquatic products of the household for
selling.
- Agricultural land is allocated to the household or individuals for long term use for
production purposes including agricultural land for planting of annual crops, water
surface for aquaculture, these types of land include land for household economy
formerly assigned by the Cooperatives (5%), garden land, intensive cultivation land,
bald hills, newly cleared land been identified for agricultural production. The duration
for annual crop land and aquaculture is 20 years, and for perennial crops is 50 years.

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