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Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
Tabulations only
Geography 
Samoa (WSM)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
08/2009 - 09/2009
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

The Samoa Demographic and Health Survey 2009 is part of phase 5 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics commonly covered in DHS include education, health, nutrition, family planning, and household characteristics.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, 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 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 smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, Upper respiratory infections, VCT, Vaccination cards, Vegetables, Vision loss, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 6, 2023