Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009

The file contains data from the 2009 SDHS household questionnaire. The household questionnaire mainly focused on a person or group of people related and unrelated who live together in the same dwelling unit or in connected premises, who acknowledge one adult member as the head of the household. Moreover, it describes or identifies the environment in which men, women and children live.

General characteristic of the population are described such as:
- Relationship
- Sex
- Residence
- Age
- Marital status
- Disability
- Eligibility
- Birth Registration
- Survivorship and residence of biological parents
- Ever attend school
- Current/Recent school attendance

The file contains data related to household indentification on the cover page of the household questionnaire as well as the section on the types of diseases that any member of the household were diagnosed by a doctor in the last 12 months.

Diseases include:
- Dengue fever
- Typhoid
- Filariasis
- Measles
- Rubella
- Leprosy
- Meningococcal disease
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Cardiovascular disease
- Rheumatic heart disease

The file provides information related to household characteristics and durability of housing

The file provides information related to women aged 15 - 49; their identification, respondent background, reproduction, contraception, pregnancy and post-natal care, child immunization health and woman's nutrition, fertility preferences, husbands background and woman's work, HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Other health issues.