Niakhar HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 1984 - 2014 (Release 2017)
Senegal, 1984 - 2014
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Niakhar HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 1984 - 2014 (Release 2017)
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Senegal | SEN |
Demographic Surveillance
This dataset contains rounds 1 to 16 of demographic surveillance data covering the period from 1 Jan 2008 to 31 December 2016.
An initial baseline census was carried out in 1962 for 8 villages, followed by another one in 1983 when the study area of Niakhar was expanded. From 1962 to 1987, data were collected through annual rounds during the dry season. Demographic events were collected by interviewers using a printed list of compound residents with their characteristics. From 1987 to 1997, rounds became weekly because of the need for continuous birth registration for vaccine trials. Annual censuses were carried out to check data collection, particularly relative to in- and out-migration. Routine visits were conducted in the 30 villages of the study area every three months between 1997and 2007 and every four months between 2008 and 2012 and every six month since then. Interviews are conducted with tablet PC since 2007. Verbal autopsies are completed after each round by trained personnel.
The Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Niakhar, a rural area of Senegal, is located 135 km east of Dakar. This HDSS has been set up in 1962 by the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) to face the shortcomings of the civil registration system and provide demographic indicators.
Some 65 villages were followed annually in the Niakhar area from 1962 to 1969. The study zone was reduced to eight villages from 1969 to 1983, and from then on the HDSS was extended to include 22 other villages, covering a total of 30 villages for a population estimated at 45,000 in December 2013. Thus 8 villages have been under demographic surveillance for almost 50 years and 30 villages for 30years.
Vital events, migrations, marital changes, pregnancies, immunization are routinely recorded (every four months). The database also includes epidemiological, economic and environmental information coming from specific surveys. Data were collected through annual rounds from 1962 to 1987; rounds became weekly from 1987 to 1997; routine visits were conducted every three months between 1997and 2007 and every four months since then.
The current objectives are 1) to obtain a long-term assessment of demographic and socio-economic indicators necessary for bio-medical and social sciences research, 2) to keep up epidemiological and environmental monitoring, 3) to provide a research platform for clinical and interdisciplinary research (medical, social and environmental sciences). Research projects during the last 5 years are listed in Table 2. The Niakhar HDSS has institutional affiliation with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD, formerly ORSTOM).
Event history data
Individual
Version
CMD2014.v1
2017-05-20
Scope
This study represents only a portion of the total data associated with the complet Niakhar demographic surveillance as described in the study abstract.
It specifically only includes the events defining the resident exposure of individuals under surveillance as well as the delivery events of resident women. Each type of event contains minimal attributes describing the event:
Attributes common to each event: Event Type, Event Date, Observation Date
Migration: Origin & Destination
Delivery: Live born and Still born counts
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Demography [N01.224] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Age Distribution [N01.224.033] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Emigration and Immigration [N01.224.625.350] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Residential Mobility [N01.224.791.700] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Sex Distribution [N01.224.803] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Vital Statistics [N01.224.935] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Life Expectancy [N01.224.935.464] | 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 |
| Rural Population [N01.600.725] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Maternal Age [N06.850.490.250.550] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Parity [N06.850.490.812.600] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
| Survival Analysis [N06.850.520.830.998] | MeSH | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh |
Coverage
The study zone of Niakhar is located in Senegal, 14.5ºN Latitude and 16.5ºW Longitude in the department of Fatick (Sine-Saloum), 135 km east of Dakar. The Niakhar study zone covers 203 square kilometres and is located in the continental Sahelian-Sudanese climatic zone. For thirty years the region has suffered from drought. The average annual rainfall has decreased from 800 mm in the 1950s to 500 mm in the 1980s. Increasing amounts of precipitation have been observed since the mid-2000s with an average annual rainfall of 600 mm between 2005 and 2010. The area is 203 square kilometers.
Members of households reside within the demographic surveillance area. Inmigrants are defined by intention to become resident, but actual residence episodes of less than 180 days are censored. Outmigrants are defined by intention to become resident elsewhere, but actual periods of non-residence less than 180 days are censored, except seasonal work migrants, worker with a wife resident, pupils or students. Children born to resident women are considered resident by default, irrespective of actual place of birth. The dataset contains the events of all individuals ever resident during the study period (1 Jan 1990 to 31 Dec 2013).
The Niakhar HDSS collects for each resident the following basic data: individual, household and compound identifying information, mother and father identification, relationship to the head of household and spousal relationship. From 1983 to 2007, the HDSS routinely monitored deaths, pregnancies, births, miscarriages, stillbirths, weaning, migrations, changes of marital status, immunizations, and cases of measles and whooping cough. For the last 5 years, the HDSS only recorded demographic events related to each resident including cause of death. Verbal autopsies have been conducted after all deaths except for those that occurred between 1999 and 2004 where only deaths for people aged 0-55 years were investigated. The Niakhar HDSS also registers visitors as well as all the demographic events related to them in case of in-migration. Household characteristics (living conditions, domestic equipment, etc.) were collected in 1998 and 2003, and community equipment (schools, boreholes, etc.) in 2003. Economic and environmental data will be collected in 2013. Table 3 presents further details on the data items collected. The Niakhar HDSS interviewers collect data with tablet PCs that are loaded with the last updated database linked to a user-friendly interface indicating the household members and the questionnaire. Daily backups are performed on an external hard drive and weekly synchronizations are scheduled during the round, helping to update the database and check data consistency (i.e. residential moves within the study area or marriages). Applications are Developed in Visual Basic.Net and the database is managed with Microsoft Access.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Cheikh Sokhna | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) |
| Laurence Fleury | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) |
| Valérie Delaunay | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) |
| El-Hadji Konko Ciré Bâ | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Mouhamadou Baba Sow | Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt (IRD) | Data Manager |
| Emilie Volpi | Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt (IRD) | Data Manager |
| Adiouma Faye | Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt (IRD) | Data collector |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt | Current funder |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Senghor | Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt (IRD) | Verbal Autopsy Interviewer |
| Emilie Ndiaye | Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt (IRD) | Referencies Manager |
| Prosper Ndiaye | Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt (IRD) | Administrative Manager |
| Malick Toure | Institut de Recherche pour le Développemt (IRD) | Logistics Manager |
Sampling
This dataset is not based on a sample; it contains information from the complete demographic surveillence area.
None
On an average the response rate is about 99% over the years for each round
Not applicable
Survey instrument
List of questionnaires:
Compound Registration or update Form
Houshold Registration or update Form
Household Membership Registration or update Form
External Migration Registration Form
Internal Migration Registration Form
Individual Registration Form
Birth Registration Form
Death Registration Form
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 1984-01-01 | 2014-12-31 | Release coverage |
This dataset contains rounds 1 to 18 of demographic surveillance data covering the period from 1 Jan 1983 to 31 December 2015.
From 1983 to 1987, data were collected through annual rounds during the dry season. Demographic events were collected by interviewers using a printed list of compound residents with their characteristics. From 1987 to 1997, rounds became weekly because of the need for continuous birth registration for vaccine trials. Annual censuses were carried out to check data collection, particularly relative to in- and out-migration. Routine visits were conducted in the 30 villages of the study area every three months between 1997and 2007 and every four months between 2008 and 2012 and every six month since then.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| NIAKHAR for Health and Population Studies | Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD) |
Fiedworkers operated in teams of 4 Fiedworkers and 1 Fiedworkers supervisor who supervises fieldWorkers. they conduct supervised visits and quality control visits and review Fiedworkers data collection.
Interviewer were trained immediately prior to the baseline data collection and then refresher training was conducted for one day between each surveillance round.
Data processing
On data entry data consistency and plausibility were checked by 455 data validation rules at database level. If data validaton failure was due to a data collection error, the questionnaire was referred back to the field for revisit and correction. If the error was due to data inconsistencies that could not be directly traced to a data collection error, the record was referred to the data quality team under the supervision of the senior database scientist. This could request further field level investigation by a team of trackers or could correct the inconsistency directly at database level.
No imputations were done on the resulting micro data set, except for:
a. If an out-migration (OMG) event is followed by a homestead entry event (ENT) and the gap between OMG event and ENT event is greater than 180 days, the ENT event was changed to an in-migration event (IMG).
b. If an out-migration (OMG) event is followed by a homestead entry event (ENT) and the gap between OMG event and ENT event is less than 180 days, the OMG event was changed to an homestead exit event (EXT) and the ENT event date changed to the day following the original OMG event.
c. If a homestead exit event (EXT) is followed by an in-migration event (IMG) and the gap between the EXT event and the IMG event is greater than 180 days, the EXT event was changed to an out-migration event (OMG).
d. If a homestead exit event (EXT) is followed by an in-migration event (IMG) and the gap between the EXT event and the IMG event is less than 180 days, the IMG event was changed to an homestead entry event (ENT) with a date equal to the day following the EXT event.
e. If the last recorded event for an individual is homestead exit (EXT) and this event is more than 180 days prior to the end of the surveillance period, then the EXT event is changed to an out-migration event (OMG)
In the case of the village that was added (enumerated) in 2006, some individuals may have outmigrated from the original surveillance area and setlled in the the new village prior to the first enumeration. Where the records of such individuals have been linked, and indivdiual can legitmately have and outmigration event (OMG) forllowed by and enumeration event (ENU). In a few cases a homestead exit event (EXT) was followed by an enumeration event in these cases. In these instances the EXT events were changed to an out-migration event (OMG).
Data appraisal
Not Applicable
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SN013 MicroDataCleaned SexValues 32 241938 241970 0 2017-05-19 15:12
SN013 MicroDataCleaned DoBValues 241970 2017-05-19 15:12
Access policy
IRD: Niakhar (SN013)
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| yes | This data is anonimised and no confidentiality agreement in addition to the general data use agreement is required |
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| iSHARE2 Helpdesk | INDEPTH | help-data@indepth-network.org | http://indepth-ishare.org/howtouse |