DOI: 10.26193/26t1z4
title: Indonesian Susenas, 2009

description: The Indonesia Social and Economic Survey (Susenas) is a nationwide survey conducted to collect information on social and economics indices. It serves as a main source of monitoring social and economic progress in society. Susenas has been conducted on an annual basis since 1963. Since 1992, in addition to a basic social and economic questionnaire (core), a more specialised questionnaire was introduced (module). The core questionnaire covers basic information about household and individual characteristics including health, death, education/literacy, employment, fertility and family planning, housing, and household expenditure. This questionnaire is asked annually with only slight modifications over the years. The module is intended to gather more detailed information on specific topics, especially on data that changes less frequently than a year. There are three modules of Susenas and each module is added in a three-year cycle. In 2009, the module's topic was social life, culture, and education. Unlike previous Susenas, the same sample was used for both core and module questionnaires. It consisted of 291,753 households and was designed to be representative at national, province and district/city levels. In the archive, the 2009 data are stored in four data files as described below. The four data files can be viewed together here on the on-line catalogue, but will form four separate files when downloaded. 1. Household Characteristics from core questionnaires (Study ID 01231-1) This file contains information about household characteristics collected from the core questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2009.K, Blocks I, II, VI, VII, VIII and IX in the manual). Variables include identification of place, household size, housing information (including physical characteristics of the home and source of fuel), household expenditure (including itemised food and non-food expenditures, average monthly expenditure and household income), other socio-economic information (including health care subsidies and other welfare) and information technology (including mobile phones, computers and internet access). 2. Individual Characteristics from core questionnaires (Study ID 01231-2) This file contains information about individual characteristics collected from the core questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2009.K, Blocks I, II, III, IV and V in the manual). Variables include identification of place, household size, characteristics of the enumerator, household member characteristics (including age, sex, marital status, victim of crime information and frequency of travel), health characteristics (including health complaints and treatment), health information for children under 5 years old (including birth attendants, immunisation and breastfeeding), education of those aged 5 and above (including literacy and reasons for not being in school). employment for those aged 10 and above, and fertility and family planning for females aged 10 and above. 3. Household information on Social Life, Culture and Education from module questionnaires (Study ID 01231-3) This file contains information about households collected from the module questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2009.MSBP, Blocks I, VII and VIII in the manual). Variables include identification of place, welfare and social capital development (including confidence in administrators and neighbours, community relations), and other social characteristics (including use of newspapers and magazines, foster parenting, membership of BKB, and perceptions of sex roles). 4. Individual information on Social Life, Culture and Education from module questionnaires(Study ID 01231-4) This file contains information about individuals collected from the module questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2009.MSBP, Blocks I, II, IV, V and VI in the manual). Variables include identification of place, household size, household member characteristics (including disabilities), and information about social conditions, culture and education (including clothing, nutrition, sleeping arrangements, care of children, use of media and books, enrolment in education, smoking, exercise and sport, participation in the arts, involvement in the community, travel to school, funding for school, and internet access).