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Dabat Health and Demographic Surveillance System Core Dataset 2008-2011

Ethiopia, 2008 - 2012
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ETH_2008-2011_INDEPTH-DB_v01_M
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Prof. Yigzaw Kebede, Dr. Gashaw Andargie, Prof. Mengesha Admassu, Dr. Sisay Yifru, Dr. Shitaye Alemu, Prof. Afework Kassu, Mr. Tadesse Awoke, Mr. Tesfahun Melese, Mr. Temesgen Azimeraw
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    Survey ID number

    ETH_2008-2011_INDEPTH-DB_v01_M

    Title

    Dabat Health and Demographic Surveillance System Core Dataset 2008-2011

    Country
    Name Country code
    Ethiopia ETH
    Study type

    Demographic Surveillance

    Series Information

    Round 1 to 7 of our demographic surveillance

    Abstract

    Introduction
    Dabat Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS), also called the Dabat Research Center (DRC), was established at Dabat District in 1996 after conducting initial census. Later re-census was done in 2008. The surveillance is run by the College of Medicine and Health Sciences which is one of the colleges/faculties of the University of Gondar. Dabat district is one of the 21 districts in North Gondar Administrative Zone of Amhara Region in Ethiopia. According to the report published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2007, the district has an estimated total population of 145,458 living in 27 rural and 3 urban Kebeles (sub-districts). The altitude of the district ranges from about 1000 meters to over 2500 meters above sea level. The district population largely depends on subsistence agriculture economy. There are two health centers, three health stations, and twenty-nine health posts providing health services for the community. An all-weather road runs from Gondar town through Dabat to some towns of Tigray. Dabat town, the capital of Dabat District, is located approximately 821 km northwest of Addis Ababa and 75 kms north of Gondar town. The surveillance is funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through Ethiopian Public Health Association.

    Objectives
    Dabat HDSS/ Dabat Research Centre was established to generate longitudinal data on health and population at district level and provide a study base and sampling frame for community-based research.

    Methods
    Dabat district was initially selected purposively as a surveillance site for its unique three climatic conditions, namely Dega (high land and cold), Woina dega (mid land and temperate) and Kolla (low land and hot). The choice was made with the assumption that there would be differences in morbidity and mortality in the different climatic areas. Accordingly, seven kebeles from Dega, one kebele from Woina dega, and two kebeles from Kolla were selected randomly after stratification of the kebeles by climatic zone.

    After the re-census, update has been done regularly every 6 months. During each round, data has been collected using a semi-structured questionnaire which included information related to birth and other pregnancy outcomes, death, migration, and marital status change. Interviews are administered to the heads of the household but in the absence of the head, the next elder family member is interviewed. This is only done after repeated trial of getting the head. While the regular update round is every six months, deaths that occur in the surveillance site are reported immediately to the data collectors by the local guides. After the mourning period, usually 45 days, the trained data collectors administer Verbal Autopsy (VA) questionnaire to the close relative of the deceased to get information on the possible cause(s) of death. Three VA questionnaires are prepared for the age groups 0-28 days, 29 days to 15 years, and greater than 15 years. To assign cause(s) of death, the VA data collected by data collectors is given to physicians who have got training on VA. These physicians independently assign causes of death using the standard International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10).

    Kind of Data

    Event history data

    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01: First Version for internal use
    Version 03: Edited dataset for public distribution

    Version Date

    2014-06-28

    Version Notes

    Developed during iShare 2 workshop

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope covers individuals attributes such as individuals identifier, sex, date of birth, mother id, number of birth, start and end event types (codes), and start and end dates.

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    Demography [N01.224] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
    Keywords
    Dabat HDSS

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Dabat Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) included seven rural kebeles (sub districts) and three urban kebeles in Dabat district which is located 75 km North of Gondar town in Ethiopia. There are highlands, midlands and few low land households in the HDSS site.

    Universe

    All individuals residing in Dabat HDSS site.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Prof. Yigzaw Kebede Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Dr. Gashaw Andargie Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Prof. Mengesha Admassu Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Dr. Sisay Yifru Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Dr. Shitaye Alemu Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Prof. Afework Kassu Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Mr. Tadesse Awoke Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Mr. Tesfahun Melese Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Mr. Temesgen Azimeraw Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention US government Training
    Ethiopian Public Health Association Professional association Training
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    CDC, Atlanta Funding
    Ethiopian Public Health Association Manage the funding on behalf of CDC
    University of Gondar Contribution in kind and monitoring and evaluation
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Affiliation Role
    Mr. Tesfahun Melese Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar Data Management
    Mr. Temesgen Azmeraw Dabat HDSS, University of Gondar Data Management

    Sampling

    Response Rate

    100% response rate

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    All questionnaires are prepared in Amharic language. The surveillance questionnaires are related to birth and other pregnancy outcomes, death, and migration.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2008-01-10 2008-07-07 0
    2008-10-12 2009-04-08 1
    2009-04-09 2009-10-10 2
    2009-10-11 2010-04-08 3
    2010-04-09 2010-10-10 4
    2010-10-11 2011-04-08 5
    2011-04-09 2011-10-11 6
    2011-10-12 2012-04-08 7
    Frequency of Data Collection

    Two rounds per year

    Time periods
    Start date End date Cycle
    2008-02-10 2011-12-31 7
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Dabat HDSS University of Gondar
    Supervision

    The center has four field supervisors. In addition, research team members supervise data collection process every month during the cycle data collection period. Supervisors check about five percent of the filled questionnaire for consistencies.

    Data Collection Notes

    During establishment of the surveillance ethical clearance was secured from the University of Gondar institutional review board and CDC. Then informed consent was obtained from each household head included in the surveillance.

    Data collectors were trained during census and re-census. Refresher trainings were also given at least once a year. Additionally, any newly recruited data collectors and supervisors received training before they start their actual work. Physicians were also trained on verbal autopsy. After 2008 three trainings were given for physicians untill 2011. Besides, supervisions were done about three times during each update cycles.

    All interviews are conducted in Amharic language, a national language also spoken by people in the surveillance area. The interview takes averagely 15 minutes for the surveillance while around 30 minutes for the verbal autopsy questionnaires.

    There are 34 local guides, 17 data collectors, and 4 field supervisors.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    The filled questionnaire is checked by filled supervisors, document clerk, data entry clerks for missings and other violations. In addition, DRC Software, a software developed from Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, checks violations against set of rules for data quality during data entry.

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Not applicable

    Data Appraisal

    <pre>CentreId MetricTable QMetric Illegal Lega Total Metric RunDate
    ET051 MicroDataCleaned Starts 0 59082 0 0.0 2014-06-27 19:33
    ET051 MicroDataCleaned Transitions 0 129938 129938 0.0 2014-06-27 19:33
    ET051 MicroDataCleaned Ends 0 59082 0 0.0 2014-06-27 19:33</pre>

    Access policy

    Location of Data Collection

    INDEPTH Data Repository

    Archive where study is originally stored

    INDEPTH Data Repository
    http://www.indepth-ishare.org/index.php/catalog/38
    Cost: None

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    iSHARE2 INDEPTH www.indepth-network.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. 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

    Dabat HDSS Core Dataset 2008-2011. June 2014. Provided by the INDEPTH Network Data Repository. www.indepth-network.org http://www.indepth-network.org. doi:10.7796/INDEPTH.ET051.CMD2011.V3 http://dx.doi.org/10.7796/INDEPTH.ET051.CMD2011.V3

    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.

    Contacts

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

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ETH_2008-2011_INDEPTH-DB_v02_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Dabat HDSS University of Gondar Documentation of the study
    iSHARE2 Technical Team INDEPTH Network Technical Support
    INDEPTH Network INDEPTH Network Agency
    Date of Metadata Production

    2014-06-27

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Edited version, the original DDI (DDI.INDEPTH.ET051.CMD2011.V4) was downloaded from INDEPTH Data Repository (http://www.indepth-ishare.org/index.php/catalog/central) on October 2014. The following DDI elements have been modified: DDI Document ID, survey ID and title of the study.

    Version notes

    DDI.INDEPTH.ET051.CMD_2011.V1 2014-03-04 First Document
    DDI.INDEPTH.ET051.CMD-2011.V2 2014-3-6 document updated to template version 5 and the center code also updated
    DDI.INDEPTH.ET051.CMD-2011.V3 2014-3-7 diocument updated MD5Hash
    DDI.INDEPTH.ET051.CMD2011.V4 2014-3-27 document updated to template version 6 and dataset update

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