![]() Over 94% of those baseline respondents who have not been confirmed dead have been re-interviewed. The first task was to identify, track and interview all survivors. STAR6 was the fifth follow-up of STAR1 respondents and was fielded in late 2014. There were about 30,000 target individuals in the first follow up. Some parts of Aceh were spared the force of the tsunami because of the local topography most of the coast of North Sumatra was only mildly affected. Aceh was the hardest hit by the tsunami and over 160,000 people died with several million being displaced. The survey is representative at the kabupaten level and so we included every enumeration area along the coast of the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra. The baseline for STAR was conducted 10 months before the tsunami as part of a nationally-representative survey conducted by Statistics Indonesia which collected information on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the sampled households. Self-assessed health status, health expectations and use of health services are recorded. ![]() The survey also collects information on demographics, education, work, earnings, income, assets and participation in relief and reconstruction efforts transfers and preferences migration marriage and fertility. Post-traumatic stress reactivity is assessed in each survey round along with several others markers of psychological well-being. Exposure to and experience of the tsunami, as well as psycho-social health implications play a central role in the study. The Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) is a longitudinal study of individuals who were living along the coast of the northern part of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. ![]()
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