Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009

Samoa, 2009

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Reference ID

WSM-SBS-DHS-2009-v1

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Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Health

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Literacy - English (see S116) (V155)

Data file: SamDHS09rcdWN

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 171

End: 171

Width: 1

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
0	Cannot read at all
1	Able to read only parts of sentence
2	Able to read whole sentence
3	No card with required language
4	Blind/visually impaired

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.

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Definition

Literacy. Whether a respondent who attended primary schooling can read a whole or part of a sentence showed. A respondent who attended secondary education or higher are coded 2 as well as respondent who could read a whole sentence.

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