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Laos Social Indicator Survey 1993

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
LSIS 1993
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
05/1993 - 07/1993
Series or system 
Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Social Indicator Survey was conducted in conjunction with the Expenditure and Consumption Survey. The purpose of these two surveys was to gather information for the study of living conditions and the monitoring of societal changes. Topics covered by these two surveys included household consumption, expenditures, living conditions, employment, poverty, resources, assets, transportation, communication, education, health, mortality, and fertility. The Social Indicator Survey employed interviews with heads of villages, household heads, and married women ages 15-49. The survey was conducted in 147 villages with 2,868 participating households and 19,216 individuals.

Keywords 
Agriculture, Amputation, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Breastfeeding, Child mortality, Community health workers, Cooking fuels, Crops, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Disability, Disasters, Education, Education access, Electricity, Employment, Environment, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Fertility, Fertilizers, Fishing, Goiter, Health care access, Health status, Hearing loss, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Immunization, Infant mortality, Land ownership, Lighting, Literacy, Malaria, Malnutrition, Measles, Measles vaccines, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mental health symptoms, Mortality, Musculoskeletal diseases, Nurses, Occupations, Paralysis, Pesticides, Pharmacists, Physicians, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Poverty, Prevalence, Rainfall, Respiratory infections, Sanitation, School conditions, School enrollment, Schools, Skilled birth attendants, Skin diseases, Traditional healers, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Vision loss, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 7, 2022