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Navrongo Health Reseach Centre INDEPTH Core Dataset 1993 - 2014 (Release 2017)

Ghana, 1993 - 2014
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GHA_1993-2014_INDEPTH-NHDSS_v01_M
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Dr.Abraham Oduro
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data appraisal
  • Access policy
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    GHA_1993-2014_INDEPTH-NHDSS_v01_M
    Title

    Navrongo Health Reseach Centre INDEPTH Core Dataset 1993 - 2014 (Release 2017)
    Country
    Name Country code
    Ghana GHA
    Study type

    Demographic Surveillance
    Series Information

    This dataset contains data from rounds 1 to 79 of demographic surveillance, from 01/07/1993 to 31/12/2014.
    Abstract

    The Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NHDSS) site is located in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East region of Ghana. The district covers an area of 1675 km2 along the Ghana-Burkina Faso border. It measures roughly 55 km x 50 km and has an altitude of 200-400 m above sea level. The land is fairly flat, and passing through it from Burkina Faso is the White Volta River, which feeds Lake Volta (the world's largest artificial lake) in southern Ghana. Located in the Guinea savannah belt, the district is typically Sahelian (hot and dry).

    Set up in 1993, the NHDSS was established to support research on the determinants of morbidity, mortality and fertility in Ghana's northern regions. One of the most important recent changes that the NHDSS has introduced in its data collection system, is to reconfigure the system from the compound as the unit of analysis to the household level as happens in many other HDSS sites and also to conform to demographic and health surveys worldwide. To this end, during the last quarter of 2004, the NHDSS started introducing these changes, which became operational in early 2006. Due to some operational and financial challenges In 2009, there were only two updates rounds done in that year.
    Kind of Data

    Event history data
    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Version

    Version Description

    CMD2014.v1: Edited dataset for public distribution
    Version Date

    2017-05-23

    Scope

    Notes

    Locaion: Observations and Date
    Individual: Demographics
    Events: Migration (Origin and Destination) (Internal and External), Pregnancy, Births, Deaths
    Verbal Autopsy: Cause of Deaths
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    Demography [NO1.224] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/meshw
    Emigration and Immigration [N01.224.625.350] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/meshw
    Mortality [N01.224.935.698] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/meshw
    Birth Rate [N01.224.935.849.500] MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/meshw
    Keywords
    Migration Fertility Mortality

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NHDSS) site is located in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East region of Ghana. The district covers an area of 1675 km2 along the Ghana-Burkina Faso border. It measures roughly 55 km x 50 km and has an altitude of 200-400 m above sea level. The land is fairly flat, and passing through it from Burkina Faso is the White Volta River, which feeds Lake Volta (the world's largest artificial lake) in southern Ghana. Located in the Guinea savannah belt, the district is typically Sahelian (hot and dry).
    Universe

    All resident population. The NHDSS now covers two districts, Kassena-Nankana West (KNW) and the Kassena-Nankana East Municipality (KNEM). The dataset covers only the KNEM.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Dr.Abraham Oduro Navrongo Health Research Centre
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Daneil Azongo NHRC Head of Fieldwork
    Peter Wontuo NHRC Head of the Data Management Unit
    Charles Manful NHRC Data Manager
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Navrongo Health Research Centre Current funder
    Rockefeller Foundation Prior funder
    Population Council USA Prior funder
    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Prior funder
    Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Prior funder
    Wellcome Trust Prior funder
    National Institute of Health, USA Prior funder
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Affiliation
    The Chiefs & People of the KNDs Residents of the study area
    Kasena Nankana District Assemblies Government agency

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    This dataset is not based on a sample, but contains information for all individuals resident in the demographic surveillance system area.
    Deviations from the Sample Design

    None
    Response Rate

    100% response rates on an average over the years for all rounds
    Weighting

    Not applicable

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Register Book:
    Household Registration Book (HRB)

    Event Forms:
    Death
    Inmigration
    Outmigration
    Pregnancy Registration
    Pregnancy Outcome List
    Birth
    Marriage Registration

    Others:
    Location Registration
    Household Registration

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    1993-01-01 2014-12-31 Release Coverage
    Frequency of Data Collection

    Round 1 to Round 50: 4 times a year
    Round 51 to Round 59: 3 times a year
    Round 60 to Round 61: 2 times a year
    Round 62 to Round 79: 3 times a year
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Navrongo Health Research Centre Ghana Health Service
    Supervision

    Field workers leave a note at where they are residing indicating where they will be working. A team from the Field Headquarters visit them at these locations on schedule visit to supervise their work. Other quality control measures include re-interviews of about 2% - 5% of households, spot checks and manual checking of completed registers and event forms.
    Data Collection Notes

    Routine/Round visit to all households by fieldworkers to update household census and capture all events applicable/qualified on that visit in that household using a register book and event forms.

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Not Applicable
    Data Appraisal

    CentreId MetricTable QMetric Illegal Legal Total
    GH011 MicroDataCleaned Starts 18 192999 193017 0 2017-05-23 22:57
    GH011 MicroDataCleaned Transitions 0 653366 653366 0 2017-05-23 22:57
    GH011 MicroDataCleaned Ends 193017 2017-05-23 22:57
    GH011 MicroDataCleaned SexValues 27956 625410 653366 4 2017-05-23 22:57
    GH011 MicroDataCleaned DoBValues 28016 625350 653366 4 2017-05-23 22:58

    Access policy

    Archive where study is originally stored

    Navrongo (GH011)

    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 anonymized 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:

    "Navrongo Health Reseah Centre INDEPTH Core Dataset 1993-2014 (Release 2017). Release by the INDEPTH Network Data Reposirory www.indepth-network.org http://www.indepth-network.org doi:10.7796/INDEPTH.GH011.CMD2014.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 helpdata@indeoth-network.org http://indepth-isharerk.org
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