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Population and Housing Census 1981

Samoa, 1981
Samoa
Samoa Bureau of Statistics
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  • Study description
  • Data Description
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Data Appraisal
  • Data access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

Identification

IDNO
SPC_WSM_1981_PHC_v01_M
Title
Population and Housing Census 1981
Translated Title
Tusigaigoa o Tagata ma Fale 1981
Country
Name Country code
Samoa WSM
Kind of Data
Census/enumeration data [cen]

Version

Version number
v1.2: edited data, second version, for internal use.
Version Date
2014-04-28

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National Coverage (Region, District, Village, Enumeration Area, Household).
Unit of Analysis
Household and Individual.

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity/Primary investigators
Agency Name
Samoa Bureau of Statistics
Producers
Name Role
United Nation Development Programme Compling of the Census
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
United Nations Fund for Population Activities UNFPA provided financial and Technical assistance
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ESCAP provided services of techical advisers in demography at various stages of the census operation
The South Pacific Commission SPC provided services of techical advisers in deTechnical assistance during the preparatory stage

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
Start date End date
1981-01-01 1981-01-30
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Type of Research Instrument
The Census of 1981 questionnaire includes household characteristics ,fertility, occupation and type of drewlling.

Data Appraisal

Data Appraisal
Population Density and Distibution
Age and Sex Structures of the population
Composition of the population by marital status
Literacy of the population
Fertility of the female population
School attendance in each age group

Data access

Contact
Name Affiliation
Assistant Chief Officer ( Census and Survey Divison) Samaoa Bureau of Statistics
Confidentiality Declaration
All the infomation that have been collected are strictly confident (Statistica Act 1991) Section F 1.3
Conditions
Licensed dataset.
Citation requirement
"Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Population and Housing Census 1981 (PHC 1981), Version 01 of the licensed dataset (April 2014), provided by Samoa Bureau of Statistics. http://110.5.112.59/index.php/catalog/central"

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Contact
Name Affiliation URI
Assistant Chief Officer( Census and Survey Divison) Samoa Bureau of Statistics http://www.sbs.gov.ws/index.php/contact-sbs

Metadata production

Document ID
DDI_SPC_WSM_1981_PHC_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Talai TS SBS - Census Division Documentation of the study
Date of Production
2014-04-28
Document version
version 1 (April 2014) This is the first documentation for the Census 1981.
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