Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Vietnam, 1997 - 1998

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VNM_1997_VLSS_v01_M

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5 what different businesses were owne by members of family (person 5) (s7q045)

Data file: SCR07

Overview

Valid: 1

Invalid: 6001

Minimum: 17

Maximum: 17

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 27

End: 28

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What different businesses or professions, such as trade, businesses, industries, services or professions, were owned or managed by members of your family during the past 12 months (since...)?

Categories

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

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

check professions recorded in 4b, 4c, and 4d. Make a complete list before going to question 5.

Asks about production activities, or business that the household manages, not
salaried work or work managed by other households.
All codes for activities/industry are recorded with industry code for economic activities
which are recorded later by the team leader. Here, a maximum of five economic activities are
recorded. If there are more than that, the interviewer requests to re-identify the five most
important activities, that is, those bringing the highest income to the household.

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