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Karonga HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 2003 - 2015 (Release 2017)

Malawi, 2003 - 2015
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Reference ID
MWI_2003-2015_INDEPTH-KHDSS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Albert Dube, Amelia C. Crampin
Metadata
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Dec 22, 2014
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data processing
  • Data appraisal
  • Access policy
  • Distributor information
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    MWI_2003-2015_INDEPTH-KHDSS_v01_M
    Title

    Karonga HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 2003 - 2015 (Release 2017)
    Country
    Name Country code
    Malawi MWI
    Study type

    Demographic Surveillance
    Series Information

    Demographic survellance of a continous registration system:
    Baseline - 2002-2004
    Round 1-11 - 2004-2015
    Abstract

    The Karonga Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Karonga HDSS) in northern Malawi currently has a population of more than 38 000 individuals under continuous demographic surveillance since completion of a baseline census (2002-2004). The surveillance system collects data on vital events and migration for individuals and for households. It also provides data on cause-specific mortality obtained by verbal autopsy for all age groups, and estimates rates of disease for specific presentations via linkage to clinical facility data. The Karonga HDSS provides a structure for surveys of socio-economic status, HIV-prevalence and incidence, sexual behavior, fertility intentions and a sampling frame for other studies, as well as evaluating the impact of interventions, such as antiretroviral therapy and vaccination programs. Uniquely, it relies on a network of village informants to report vital events and household moves, and furthermore is linked to an archive of biological samples and data from population surveys and other studies dating back three decades.
    Kind of Data

    Event history data
    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Version

    Version Description

    CMD2015.v1: Edited dataset for public distribution
    Version Date

    2017-05-14
    Version Notes

    Devloped in iSHARE 2 workshop Africa Center 2013

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of this dataset includes the following:

    • All resident population of the HDSS
    • Enumeration
    • Birth
    • Death
    • Migration
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    Demography [N01.224] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
    Emigration and Immigration [N01.224.625.350] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
    Mortality [N01.224.935.698] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
    Birth Rate [N01.224.935.849.500] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
    Keywords
    Demography Census Vital statistics Mortality Population dynamics Life expectancy Malawi Sub-Saharan Africa

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The Karonga HDSS surrounds the port village of Chilumba, on Lake Malawi, in the southern part of Karonga District . The surveillance area is located between latitudes 10.388 and 10.508S and longitudes 34.088 and 34.278E, covering an area of approximately 135 km2. The lake shore and the Nyika National Park form the boundaries to the east and west, respectively, whereas the boundaries to the north and south are delineated by village boundaries.
    Universe

    The DSS covers all the individuals of all ages who are members of households and are residents within the geographical boundaries of the study area. Visitors too were captured in the baseline survey.

    Of the 36,783 individuals under observation at the end of 2012, 48% (17,715/36,783) were male and 52% were female (19,068/36,783); 20% (7542/36,783) were aged under 5 years and 50% (18 396/ 36,783) were under 15 years of age. In all, 44% (16 277/36 783) of the population were aged between 15 and 59 years, and 6% (2160/36,783) were aged 60 years and above. The majority of the population under surveillance are rural dwellers that depend on subsistence farming and fish from the lake as a source of their livelihood.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Albert Dube Karonga Prevention Study
    Amelia C. Crampin London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Karonga Prevention Study London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Original producer
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Wellcome Trust All stages of data production process
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Affiliation Role
    Keith Branson London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Data Manager
    Estelle McLean London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Data Scientist

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The whole population
    Deviations from the Sample Design

    None
    Response Rate

    The average response rate for household visits over all the rounds is around 99%
    Weighting

    Not Applicable

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The questionnaires are designed to capture the core HDSS information which includes the baseline, birth, inmigration, outmigration and death.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2003-01-01 2015-12-31 Release coverage
    Time Method

    Monthly recording of births and deaths, continuous recording of opportunistic events and a yearly census to record all demographic events including individual and whole household movements.
    Frequency of Data Collection

    Yearly
    Time periods
    Start date End date
    2003-01-01 2011-12-31
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Field Workers Karonga Prevention Study
    Key Informants Karonga Community Members

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Data was left censored to 1 Jan 2003 to account for the start-up phase of the surveillance. Data were edited to allow people to appear in only one household at a time (for surveillance purposes men with multiple wives can be recorded as living in more than one household).

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Not Applicable
    Data Appraisal

    CentreId MetricTable QMetric Illegal Legal Total Metric RunDate
    MW011 MicroDataCleaned Starts 68652 2017-05-14 14:14
    MW011 MicroDataCleaned Transitions 0 232512 232512 0. 2017-05-14 14:14
    MW011 MicroDataCleaned Ends 68652 2017-05-14 14:14

    Access policy

    Location of Data Collection

    INDEPTH Data Repository
    Archive where study is originally stored

    Karonga (MW011)

    Distributor information

    Distributor
    Organization name Affiliation
    Karonga Prevention Study London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    iSHARE2 Help desk INDEPTH http://indepth-ishare.org help-data@indepth-network.org
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes This data is anonymised and no confidentiality agreement in addition to the general data use agreement is required.
    Access conditions

    This data is made available for licensed access under the following conditions:

    1. Data and other material provided by INDEPTH will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions or organisations without INDEPTH's written agreement.

    2. In the case of multi-centre datasets, data originating from a single contributing member centre of the INDEPTH Network may not be analysed or reported on in isolation without the express permission of the member centre concerned.

    3. No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and there will be no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery will be reported immediately to INDEPTH.

    4. No attempt will be made to produce links between datasets provided by INDEPTH or between INDEPTH data and other datasets that could identify individuals.

    5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports or other publications employing data obtained from INDEPTH will cite the source, in line with the citation requirement provided with the dataset.

    6. An electronic copy of all publications based on the requested data will be sent to INDEPTH.

    7. The original collector of the data, INDEPTH, and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for the data's use or interpretation or inferences based upon it.
    Citation requirements

    Any use of this dataset must cite the digital object identifier (doi) associated with this dataset using the following form:

    "Karonga HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 2003-2015 (Release 2017). Provided by the INDEPTH Network Data Repository. www.indepth-network.org http://www.indepth-network.org. doi:10.7796/INDEPTH.MW011.CMD2015.v1"

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, INDEPTH, and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for the data's use or interpretation or inferences based upon it.
    Copyright

    This dataset documentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The dataset is shared in terms of the data-use agreement accepted at the time of data download.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    iSHARE2 Helpdesk INDEPTH Network help-data@indepth-network.org http://indepth-ishare.org/howtouse

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_MWI_2003-2015_INDEPTH-KHDSS_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Estelle McLean LSHTM Data Scientist
    iSHARE2 Technical Team INDEPTH Network Technical Support
    Date of Metadata Production

    2017-05-14

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    • v01 (May 2017)
      The DDI was produced by INDEPTH Network. It was downloaded on October 13, 2017 from http://www.indepth-ishare.org/index.php/catalog/128/ by the World Bank Microdata Library documentation team.

    • v02 (October 2017)
      Modifications in the study ID and DDI ID were done by the World Bank Microdata Library documentation team to match the standard used by the library and the IHSN Survey Catalog. Some metadata fields were also edited.
    Version notes

    CMD2015.v1 - 2017-05-15 First documentation for 2015 dataset for public distribution
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