Readme file for data associated with: SCM Trienekens, CL Faust, F Besigye, L Pickering, EM Tukahebwa, J Seeley, PHL Lamberton. Variation in water contact behaviour and risk of Schistosoma mansoni (re)infection among Ugandan school-aged children in an area with persistent high endemicity. FILE 1. snail_surveys.csv survey_code: survey identification code consisting of timepoint, site_code and repeat timepoint: survey timepoint. 1=March 2018, 2=July 2018, 3=October 2018, 4=February 2019 date: survey date in DD/MM/YYYY format site_code: water contact site code.'A'-'J'. lake_site: binary water body annotation. 'Lake' or 'Other'. temperature: temperature in degrees Celcius tds: total dissolved solids in mg/L ph: pH conductivity: conductivity in mS/cm depth: categorical variable water depth. <0.5m, 0.5-1m, >1m. season: categorical variable season. 'rainy', 'dry', 'light rainy'. sudanica: number of B. sudanica snails collected during survey pfeifferi: number of B. pfeifferi snails collected during survey choanomphala: number of B. choanomphala snails collected during survey snails_total: total number of B. sudanica, B. pfeifferi and B. choanomphala snails collected during survey comments: comments regarding challenges to conduct survey site_risk: allocated site risk. 'Low' or 'High'.