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Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009

Samoa, 2009
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WSM-SBS-DHS-2009-v1
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Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Health
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Data file: SamDHS09rcdWN

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.

Variables: 927

Variables

V3A08K
Reason not using: others opposed
V3A08L
Reason not using: religious prohibition
V3A08M
Reason not using: knows no method
V3A08N
Reason not using: knows no source
V3A08O
Reason not using: health concerns
V3A08P
Reason not using: fear of side effects
V3A08Q
Reason not using: lack of access/too far
V3A08R
Reason not using: costs too much
V3A08S
Reason not using: inconvenient to use
V3A08T
Reason not using: interferes with body’s processes
V3A08U
Reason not using: CS 1 -NA
V3A08V
Reason not using: CS 2 -NA
V3A08W
Reason not using: CS 3 -NA
V3A08X
Reason not using: other
V3A08Z
Reason not using: don't know
V3A09A
How many pill cycles did get last time
V3A09B
How many condoms did get last time
V401
Last birth a caesarean section
V404
Currently breastfeeding
V405
Currently amenorrheic
V406
Currently abstaining
V407
Number of times breastfed during night
V408
Number of times breastfed during day
V409
Gave child plain water
V409A
Gave child sugar water -NA
V410
Gave child juice -NA
V410A
Gave child tea or coffee
V411
Gave child tinned, powdered or fresh milk
V411A
Gave child baby formula
V412
Gave child fresh milk -NA
V412A
Gave child baby cereal
V412B
Gave child other porridge/gruel
V413
Gave child other liquid
V413A
Gave child soft drinks
V413B
Gave child liquid CS 1 -NA
V413C
Gave child liquid CS 2 -NA
V413D
Gave child liquid CS 3 -NA
V414A
Gave child foods CS 4 -NA
V414B
Gave child foods CS 5 -NA
V414C
Gave child foods CS 6 -NA
V414D
Gave child foods CS 7 -NA
V414E
Gave child bread, noodles, other made from grains
V414F
Gave child potatoes, cassava, giant taro, taro, yams or other
V414G
Gave child eggs
V414H
Gave child fresh meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc.)
V414I
Gave child pumpkin, carrots, breadfruit, squash (yellow or orange inside)
V414J
Gave child cabbage, pele leaves, any dark green leafy vegetable
V414K
Gave child mangoes, papayas, oranges, ripe breadfruit, other
V414L
Gave child any other fruits
V414M
Gave child liver, heart, other organs
V414N
Gave child fresh, canned, smoked or dried fish or shellfish
V414O
Gave child food made from beans, peas, lentils, nuts
V414P
Gave child cheese, yogurt, other milk products
V414Q
Gave child oil, fats, butter, coconut cream or products made
V414R
Gave child chocolates, sweets, candies, pastries, etc.
V414S
Gave child other solid-semisolid food
V414T
Gave child canned or frozen meat or poultry
V414U
Gave child foods CS -NA
V415
Drank from bottle with nipple yesterday/last night
V416
Heard of oral rehydration (Samoa: via masima)
V417
Entries in maternity table
V418
Entries in health table
V419
Entries in height/weight table -NA
V420
Measurer's code -NA
V421
Assistant measurer's code -NA
V426
When child put to breast
V437
Respondent's weight in kilo -NA
V438
Respondent's height in centimeters -NA
V439
Height/Age percentile -NA
V440
Height/Age standard deviation -NA
V441
Height/Age percent ref. med -NA
V442
Weight/Height percent ref. -NA
V443
Weight/Height percent ref. (Foggarty) -NA
V444
Weight/Height percent ref. (WHO) -NA
V444A
Weight/Height standard deviation -NA
V445
Body Mass Index -NA
V446
Rohrer's index -NA
V447
Result of measurement - height -NA
V447A
Women's age in years (from household report) -NA
V452A
Under age 18 (from household report) -NA
V452B
Line number of parent/caretaker -NA
V452C
Read consent statement - height -NA
V453
Hemoglobin level (g/dl - 1d) -NA
V454
Currently pregnant (from household report) -NA
V455
Result of measurement - hemoglobin -NA
V456
Hemoglobin level adjusted f -NA
V457
Anemia level -NA
V458
Agrees to referral - anemia -NA
V459
Have mosquito bed net for sleeping -NA
V460
Children under 5 slept under bed net -NA
V461
Respondent slept under mosquito -NA
V462
Washed hands before preparing last meal -NA
V463A
Smokes cigarettes
V463B
Smokes pipe
V463C
Uses chewing tobacco -NA
V463D
Uses snuff -NA
V463E
Uses Tapaa Samoa
V463F
Smokes country specific -NA
V463G
Smokes country specific -NA
V463X
Smokes other
V463Z
Does not use tobacco
V464
Number of cigarettes in last 24 hours
V465
Disposal of youngest child's stools when not using toilet
V466
When child is seriously ill -NA
V467A
Getting medical help for self -NA
V467B
Getting medical help for self: getting permission to go
V467C
Getting medical help for self: getting money needed for treatment
V467D
Getting medical help for self: distance to health facility
V467E
Getting medical help for self: having to take transport
V467F
Getting medical help for self: not wanting to go alone
V467G
Getting medical help for self: concern no female health provider
V467H
Getting medical help for self: concern no provider
V467I
Getting medical help for self: concern no drugs available
V467J
Getting medical help for self -NA
V467K
Getting medical help for self -NA
V467L
Getting medical help for self -NA
V467M
Getting medical help for self -NA
V468
Record for Last Birth
V471A
Mother had tinned, powdered or fresh milk
V471B
Mother had tea or coffee
V471C
Mother had any other liquid
V471D
Mother had soft drinks
V471E
Mother had liquid CS 1 -NA
V471F
Mother had liquid CS 2 -NA
V471G
Mother had liquid CS 3 -NA
V472A
Mother had foods CS 1 -NA
V472B
Mother had foods CS 2 -NA
V472C
Mother had foods CS 3 -NA
V472D
Mother had foods CS 4 -NA
V472E
Mother had bread, noodles, other made from grains
V472F
Mother had potatoes, cassava, giant taro, taro, yams or other
V472G
Mother had eggs
V472H
Mother had meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc.)
V472I
Mother had pumpkin, carrots, breadfruit, squash (yellow or orange inside)
V472J
Mother had cabbage, pele leaves, any dark green leafy vegetables
V472K
Mother had mangoes, papayas, oranges, ripe breadfruit, other vitamin A fruits
V472L
Mother had any other fruits
V472M
Mother had liver, heart, other organs
V472N
Mother had fresh, canned, smoked or dried fish or shellfish
V472O
Mother had food made from beans, peas, lentils, nuts
V472P
Mother had cheese, yogurt, other milk products
V472Q
Mother had oil, fats, butter, coconut cream or products made
V472R
Mother had chocolates, sweets, candies, pastries, etc.
V472S
Mother had other solid-semisolid food
V472T
Mother had canned or frozen meat or poultry
V472U
Mother had foods CS -NA
V473A
Read consent statement - HIV -NA
V473B
Result of measurement - HIV -NA
V474
Heard of tuberculosis or TB
V474A
Tuberculosis spread by: air when coughing or sneezing
V474B
Tuberculosis spread by: sharing utensils
V474C
Tuberculosis spread by: touching a person with TB
V474D
Tuberculosis spread by: food
V474E
Tuberculosis spread by: sexual contact
V474F
Tuberculosis spread by: mosquito bites
V474G
Tuberculosis spread by: saliva
V474H
Tuberculosis spread by: smoking
V474I
Tuberculosis spread by: CS 1 -NA
V474J
Tuberculosis spread by: CS 2 -NA
V474X
Tuberculosis spread by: other
V474Z
Tuberculosis spread by: don't know
V475
Tuberculosis can be cured
V476
Keep secret when family member gets TB
V477
Number of injections in last 12 months
V478
Number of injections administered by a health worker
V479
Place of injection by health worker
V480
Syringe and needle from new, unopened package
V481
Covered by health insurance
V481A
Health insurance type: mutual -NA
V481B
Health insurance type: provided by employer
V481C
Health insurance type: social security
V481D
Health insurance type: private/commercially purchased
V481E
Health insurance type: CS 1 -NA
V481F
Health insurance type: CS 2 -NA
V481G
Health insurance type: CS 3 -NA
V481H
Health insurance type: CS 4 -NA
V481X
Health insurance type: other
V482A
Arrange care of biological children -NA
V482B
Primary caregiver of children -NA
V482C
Arrange care of non-biological children -NA
V501
Current marital status
V502
Currently/formerly/never married
V503
Number of unions -NA
V504
Husband lives in house -NA
V505
Number of other wives -NA
V506
Wife rank number -NA
V507
Month of first marriage -NA
V508
Year of first marriage -NA
V509
Date of first marriage (CMC -NA)
V510
Completeness of V509 information -NA
V511
Age at first marriage -NA
V512
Years since first marriage -NA
V513
Marital duration (grouped) -NA
V525
Age at first intercourse -NA
V527
Time since last intercourse -NA
V528
Time since last intercourse -NA
V529
Time since last intercourse -NA
V530
Flag for V529 -NA
V531
Age at first intercourse (i -NA)
V532
Flag for V531 -NA
V535
Have ever been married -NA
V536
Recent sexual activity -NA
V537
Months of abstinence -NA
V538
How many previous marriage or union -NA
V539
Person who received most of -NA
V540
Respondent received any of -NA
V541
Intends to postpone intercourse -NA
V602
Fertility preference
V603
Preferred waiting time
V604
Preferred waiting time (grouped)
V605
Desire for more children
V613
Ideal number of children
V614
Ideal number of children (grouped)
V616
Time for future birth
V621
Husbands desire for children
V623
Exposure
V624
Unmet need
V625
Exposure (definition 2)
V626
Unmet need (definition 2)
V627
Ideal number of boys
V628
Ideal number of girls
V629
Ideal number of either sex
V631
Problem if became pregnant -NA
V632
Decision maker for using contraception
V633A
Reason for not having sex: husband has STI
V633B
Reason for not having sex: husband has other woman -NA
V633C
Reason for not having sex: recent birth -NA
V633D
Reason for not having sex: tired, mood -NA
V633E
Reason for not having sex: CS 1 -NA
V633F
Reason for not having sex: CS 2 -NA
V633G
Reason for not having sex: CS 3 -NA
V634
Husband knows that respondent is using contraception
V701
Partner's education level
V702
Partner's highest year of education
V704
Partner's occupation
V705
Partner's occupation (grouped)
V714
Respondent currently working
V714A
Have a job from which respondent was absent
V715
Partner's education in single years
V716
Respondent's occupation
V717
Respondent's occupation (grouped)
V719
Respondent works for family, others, self
V721
Respondent works at home or away
V729
Partner's educational attainment
V730
Partner's age
V731
Respondent worked in last 12 months
V732
Respondent employed all year/seasonal
V739
Who decides how to spend money
V740
Type of land where respondent works
V741
Respondent's type of earnings for work
V743A
Final say on own health care
V743B
Final say on making large household purchases
V743C
Final say on making household purchases for daily needs
V743D
Final say on visits to family or relatives
V743E
Final say on food to be cooked -NA
V743F
Final say on deciding what to do with money husband earns
V744A
Wife beating justified if she goes out without telling him
V744B
Wife beating justified if she neglects the children
V744C
Wife beating justified if she argues with him
V744D
Wife beating justified if she refuses to have sex with him
V744E
Wife beating justified if she burns the food
V746
Earns more than partner
V750
Ever heard of a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
V751
Ever heard of AIDS
V754BP
Reduce risk of getting AIDS: do not have sex at all
V754CP
Reduce risk of getting AIDS: always use condoms during sex
V754DP
Reduce risk of getting AIDS: have 1 sex partner only, who had no ther partners
V754JP
Can get AIDS from mosquito bites
V754WP
Can get AIDS by sharing food with person who has AIDS
V756
A healthy looking person can have AIDS
V761
Used condom at last intercourse -NA
V761B
Intercourse with other man 1 -NA
V761C
Intercourse with other man 2 -NA
V762AA
Source for condoms: government hospital -NA
V762AB
Source for condoms: government health centre -NA
V762AC
Source for condoms: family planning clinic -NA
V762AD
Source for condoms: mobile clinic -NA
V762AE
Source for condoms: public fieldworker -NA
V762AF
Source for condoms: public, CS 1 -NA
V762AG
Source for condoms: public, CS 2 -NA
V762AH
Source for condoms: public, CS 3 -NA
V762AI
Source for condoms: other public -NA
V762AJ
Source for condoms: private hospital -NA
V762AK
Source for condoms: pharmacy -NA
V762AL
Source for condoms: private doctor -NA
V762AM
Source for condoms: private mobile clinic -NA
V762AN
Source for condoms: private fieldworker -NA
V762AO
Source for condoms: private, CS 1 -NA
V762AP
Source for condoms: private, CS 2 -NA
V762AQ
Source for condoms: private, CS 3 -NA
V762AR
Source for condoms: other private -NA
V762AS
Source for condoms: shop -NA
V762AT
Source for condoms: church -NA
V762AU
Source for condoms: friends -NA
V762AV
Source for condoms: CS 1 -NA
V762AW
Source for condoms: CS 2 -NA
V762AX
Source for condoms: other -NA
V762AZ
Source for condoms: don't know -NA
V762BA
Source for female condoms: government hospital -NA
V762BB
Source for female condoms: government health centre -NA
Total: 927
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