Living Standards Survey 1997-1998

Vietnam, 1997 - 1998

Reference ID

VNM_1997_VLSS_v01_M

Producer(s)

General Statistical Office (GSO)

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2. Have you ever been pregnant? (s8aq02)

Data file: SCR08A1

Overview

Valid: 4412

Invalid: 1411

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 2

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 13

End: 13

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

I would like to ask you some questions about your pregnancies and all the children you have given birth to.

Literal question

2. Have you ever been pregnant?

Categories

Value	Category
1	yes
2	no

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

Ask whether the woman has been pregnant. If she says no immediately, the
interviewer should record code 2 at once but try to prompt about miscarriages that she
accidentally or intentionally forgot or she does not want to remember. If the interviewer, after
prompting, is sure that she has never been pregnant, then move on to question 30 on the next
page

Question post text

if the answer code is 2, skip to the question 30

Description

Definition

Children born alive: is a child born with signs of life (crying, breathing, heart beating,
movement of muscles) even with children who died after that a very short time.
Child born dead: is a child born without any signs of life.
Miscarriage: A pregnant woman, who during the period from the first month to the sixth
month of pregnancy, but the foetus comes out is called miscarriage. If the foetus is over 6 months
old, that is called premature delivery and should be listed in one of the two above cases.

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