NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Samoa (WSM) Coverage type Country Time period covered 08/2009 - 09/2009 Series or system Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalHouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representative Summary Part of phase 5 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. Keywords Abortion, Adult mortality, Agriculture, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimotility drugs, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Child mortality, Circumcision, Complete birth history, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Dengue, Diabetes, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Disability, Domestic migration, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Female Infertility, Fever, Fishing, Fruits, Gestational age, Gonococcal infections, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health status, Hearing loss, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hib vaccines, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hypertension, Hysterectomy, IUDs, Idiopathic intellectual disability, Immunization, Infant care, Infant mortality, Injections, Internet, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Leprosy, Limited birth history, Limited mobility, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Lower respiratory infections, MMR vaccines, Male infertility, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal care, Measles, Medicines, Meningitis, Menopause, Menstruation, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mortality, Multiple births, Needle sharing, Night blindness, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Rheumatic heart disease, Rubella, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco use, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, Upper respiratory infections, VCT, Vaccination cards, Vegetables, Vision loss, Water supply Citation Contributors ICF Macro Samoa Bureau of Statistics Ministry of Health (Samoa) Funders USAID Publisher ICF Macro Suggested citation ICF Macro, Ministry of Health (Samoa), Samoa Bureau of Statistics. Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009. Calverton, United States: ICF Macro. GHDx Entry last modified on: May 18, 2017