Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Vietnam, 1997 - 1998

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Reference ID

VNM_1997_VLSS_v01_M

Producer(s)

General Statistical Office (GSO)

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

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Oct 13, 2016

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Data file: SCR09B1

Overview

Valid: 3969

Invalid: 4751

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 2

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 44

End: 44

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Now I would like to ask you about the types of crops planted or tended by members of your household in the past 12 months.

Literal question

6. How much [..] was sold or bartered in the past 12 months?

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	paddy	3819	96.2%
2	rice	150	3.8%

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

Calculate all the paddy actually sold by the household or exchanged for goods or
materials, fertilisers, etc. in the last 12 months, do not distinguish between rice produced by the
household in the last 12 months or the amount remaining from previous year. Methods for
calculating the response are as follows:
- If the household has mainly sold paddy and a small amount of processed rice in the
last 12 months, convert processed rice into paddy by the proportion of 1kg processed
is equal to 1,42 kg paddy.
- If the household has mainly sold processed rice and small amount of paddy in the last
12 months, convert paddy rice into processed rice by the proportion of 1 kg paddy is
equal to 0.7 kg processed rice.
If they have sold ordinary rice but do not know to which crop the rice belongs, record to
the line for annual ordinary rice.

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