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    • GHANA - Navrongo Health Reseah Centre INDEPTH Core Dataset 1993-2014 (Release 2017)

    Africa-2017
    Reference ID INDEPTH.GH011.CMD2014.v1
    Year 1993 - 2014
    Country GHANA
    Producer(s) Dr. Abraham ODURO - Navrongo Health Research Centre
    Sponsor(s) Navrongo Health Research Centre - NHRC - Current funder
    Rockefeller Foundation - - Prior funder
    Population Council USA - - Prior funder
    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - - Prior funder
    Doris Duke Charitable Foundation - - Prior fund
    Collection(s)
    Africa Region – Release 2017
    Metadata PDF Documentation in PDF
    Created on
    Jun 30, 2017
    Last modified
    Jun 30, 2017
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    Overview
    Identification
    Country
    GHANA
    Title
    Navrongo Health Reseah Centre INDEPTH Core Dataset 1993-2014 (Release 2017)

    Study Type
    Demographic Surveillance
    Series Information
    This dataset contain data from round 1 to 79 of demographic survellamce starting from 01/07/1993 to 31/12/2014.

    ID Number
    INDEPTH.GH011.CMD2014.v1
    Version
    Version Description
    CMD2014.V1: Edited dataset for public distribution

    Production Date
    2017-05-23
    Overview
    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

    Units of Analysis
    Individual

    Scope
    Notes
    The scope is a description of the datasets covered by the demographic surveillance survey. It can be viewed as a summary of the modules that are included in the various datasets.

    Locaion:

    Observations & Date

    Individual:

    Demographics

    Events:

    Migration (Origin and Destination) (Internal and External)

    Pregnanccy

    Births

    Deaths

    Verbal Autopsy:

    Cause of Deaths

    Topics
    TopicVocabularyURI
    Demography [NO1.224] MeSHhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/meshw
    Emigration and Immigration [N01.224.625.350] MeSHhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/meshw
    Mortality [N01.224.935.698] MeSHhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/meshw
    Birth Rate [N01.224.935.849.500] MeSHhttp://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 (2) Districts, Kassena-Nankana West (KNW) and the Kassena-Nankana East Municipality (KNEM). The Micro Data set covers only the KNEM.

    Producers and Sponsors
    Primary Investigator(s)
    NameAffiliation
    Dr. Abraham ODURO Navrongo Health Research Centre
    Other Producer(s)
    NameAffiliationRole
    Daneil Azongo NHRCHead of Fieldwork
    Peter Wontuo NHRCHead of the Data Management Unit
    Charles Manful NHRCData Manager
    Funding
    NameAbbreviationRole
    Navrongo Health Research Centre NHRCCurrent 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 Acknowledgements
    NameAffiliationRole
    The Chiefs & People of the KNDs Residents of the Study AreaSupport
    Kasena Nankana District Assemblies Government AgencySupport
    Metadata Production
    Metadata Produced By
    NameAbbreviationAffiliationRole
    iSHARE2 Technical TeamiS2TTINDEPTH NetworkDocumentation of the study
    INDEPTH Networkint.indepthINDEPTH Networkagency
    Peter WONTUOPWNavrongo Health Research CentreDDI Author
    Dr. Abraham ODURODONavrongo Health Research CentreDDI Co Author
    Date of Metadata Production
    2017-05-23
    DDI Document Version
    Version CMD2014.v1: 2017-05-23

    DDI Document ID
    DDI.INDEPTH.GH011.CMD2014.v1