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Agincourt HDSS Data Section
Sulaimon A. Afolabi
2016-05-19
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Version 1 (May 2016)
CMD2014.V1: i9-May-2016 - Documentation by Sulaimon Afolabi for Public Distribution
Agincourt HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 1993-2014 (Release 2016)
INDEPTH.ZA011.CMD2014.V1
Professor Stephen Tollman
Professor Kathy Khan
Dr Mark Collinson
Professor Samuel Clark
Agincourt Community Members
Xavier Gomez-Olive
Sulaimon Afolabi
Pleasure Ngobeni
Simon Mjoly
Itayi Adam
Rirhandzu Mnisi
Bernard Silaule
Ryan Wagner
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.
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Wellcome Trust
The National Institute of Ageing NIH
Andrew W Mellon Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
South African Medical Research Council
058893/Z/99/A; 069683/Z/02/Z; 085477/Z/08/Z
1R24AG032112-01 and 1R24AG032112-01 , 5R24AG032112-03
2008-1840
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Demographic Surveillance
Rounds 1 to 20 of the annual demographic surveillance rounds
Fertility
Mortality
Migration
ADSS
AHDSS
Migrants
SES
Asset
HIV
Causes of Death
dataset
Surveillance
Demographic
Health
death
survey
wits
Agincourt
MRC
Public Health
Health Sciences
Demography
Data
IShare
Indepth
Demography [N01.224]
Population [N01.600]
The Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system (HDSS), located in rural northeast South Africa close to the Mozambique border, was established in 1992 to support district health systems development led by the post-apartheid ministry of health. The HDSS (90 000 people), based on an annual update of resident status and vital events, now supports multiple investigations into the causes and consequences of complex health, population and social transitions. Observational work includes cohorts focusing on different stages along the life course, evaluation of national policy at population, household and individual levels and examination of household responses to shocks and stresses and the resulting pathways influencing health and well-being. Trials target children and adolescents, including promoting psycho-social well-being, preventing HIV transmission and reducing metabolic disease risk. Efforts to enhance the research platform include using automated measurement techniques to estimate cause of death by verbal autopsy, full 'reconciliation' of in- and outmigrations, follow-up of migrants departing the study area, recording of extra-household social connections and linkage of individual HDSS records with those from sub-district clinics. Fostering effective collaborations (including INDEPTH multi-centre work in adult health and ageing and migration and urbanization), ensuring cross site compatibility of common variables and optimizing public access to HDSS data are priorities.
South Africa
The Agincourt HDSS covers an area of 420km2 comprising a sub-district of 27 villages with traditional and elected leadership. Since the democratic transition in 1994, infrastructure development has proceeded but at a rate below expectations: electricity is available in all villages, but the cost is too high for many households; few gravel roads have been tarred within the sub-district; a dam was constructed nearby, but to-date, there is no piped water to dwellings, and sanitation is rudimentary. Every village has a primary school and most a high school; however, the quality of education remains poor.14 Although almost all children enrol, educational progress is often delayed with few post-secondary opportunities. The area is dry in winter (from May to October), with soil more suited to game farming than agriculture. Households generally purchase maize and other foods, supplementing this with home-grown crops and collection of wild foods.15 South Africa’s non-contributory social grant system is a vital source of household income, notably the old age pension16 and child support grant.17–18 There are two health centres and six clinics within the sub-district, with three district hospitals 25–60km away.
Individual
Event history data
Individual : Residence episodes and Residence Initiating and Terminating Events
Agincourt HDSS
Annually since 1999
Not Applicable
Not applicable
Proxy Respondent [proxy]
Full details can be foud on the link http://www.agincourt.co.za/index.php/data/data-collection-instruments/
Not Applicable
Not applicable
Agincourt (ZA011)
This data is anonymised and no confidentiality agreement in addition to the general data use agreement is required.
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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.
ZA011.CMD2014.V2.NSDstat
617385
14
Nesstar 200801
NULL is used for missing values.
ZA011.CMD2014.V2
Centre Related Variables
This group has identifiers for country and centre.
These are the variables which uniquely identify the centre and country which supplied the data
Individual Related Variables
This group has identifiers for individuals.
Event Related Variables
This group has event related variables
Birth Related Variables
This group contains Birth (BTH) related variables.
RecNr
617385
0
1
617385
308693
178223.842
A sequential number uniquely identifying each record in the data file
CountryId
617385
0
ISO 3166-1 numeric code of the country in which the surveillance site is situated
710
617385
CentreId
617385
0
An identifier issued by INDEPTH to each member centre of the format CCCSS, where CCC is a sequential centre identifier and SS is a sequential identifier of the site within the centre in the case of multiple site centres
ZA011
617385
IndividualId
617385
0
1
227012
111574.321
64483.335
A number uniquely identifying all the records belonging to a specific individual in the data file. This number is not be the same as the identifier used by a contributing centre to identify the individual.
Sex
617385
0
Sex of the individual. 1 for Male and 2 for Female
0
Unknown
0
1
Male
255696
2
Female
361689
DoB
617385
1800-01-01
2014-12-31
The date of birth of the individual. Format: YYYY-MM-DD
EventCount
617385
0
The total number of events associated with this individual in this data set
2
159792
3
362403
4
56600
5
24590
6
7902
7
3766
8
1360
9
594
10
190
11
88
12
60
13
26
14
14
EventNr
617385
0
A number increasing from 1 to EventCount for each event record in order of event occurrence
1
221891
2
221891
3
141995
4
21194
5
7044
6
2126
7
809
8
271
9
101
10
35
11
16
12
8
13
3
14
1
EventCode
617385
0
A code identifying the type of event that has occurred.
BTH
Birth
41350
DLV
Delivery
39536
DTH
Death
14220
ENT
Location Entry
2568
ENU
Enumeration
76072
EXT
Location Exit
2565
IMG
In-Migration
105240
OBE
Observation End
221891
OBL
Last Observation
5
OBS
Observation
0
OMG
Out-Migration
113938
EventDate
617385
1993-01-01
2015-01-01
The date on which the event occurred. Format: YYYY-MM-DD
ObservationDate
617385
1992-03-16
2100-12-31
Date on which the event was observed (recorded), also known as surveillance visit date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD
LocationId
617385
0
1
22136
10846.312
6258.069
Unique identifier associated with a residential unit within the site and is the location where the individual was or became resident when the event occurred. This identifier is not be the same as the identifier used internally by the contributing centre.
MotherId
80517
536868
The IndividualId of the mother. Only provided for BTH events.
DeliveryId
80517
536868
The RecNr of the delivery event associated with this birth