Tanzania - Ifakara Rural INDEPTH Core Dataset 1997-2014 (Release 2017)

Tanzania Ifakara Rural INDEPTH Core Dataset 1997-2014 (Release 2017)

Demographic Surveillance Round 1 to 54 from July 1997 to December 2015

ID Number INDEPTH.TZ011.CMD2014.V1

The Ifakara HDSS collects and updates detailed information from the study area of Kilombero and Ulanga districts. Some of these include Homestead information: such as Latitude, longitude, altitude, village name, village code, name of hamlet and location identifier (Location ID). Other related issues are Household Information like household names and household heads.

The term household is referred by HDSS as a group of individuals who share, or eat from, the same cooking pot.

On Individuals, information like names (Given name, Middle name and Family name), sex, birth date, marital-status, relation to household head, occupation, education level and individual ID.

While on residency, the information of residency status is also captured for instance; resident, died or out-migrated), marital status to members equal to 13 years of age, pregnancy status for women aged 13-49 years, location ID and Individual ID.

Pregnancy outcome related information: In this theme information of live birth, number of babies, still birth, abortion, date of birth, place of birth, names, sex of child, mother's personal identity number (link), father's personal identity number are collected. Death: In this theme information collected are date of death, place of death, age at Death and individual ID are collected.

Verbal Autopsy is also done to identify the probable cause of death.

In-migration: In this theme the following information are collected: Date of in-migration, Individual ID, names, sex, date of birth of migrant, reason for in-migration, relation to household head, origin of migration episode and whether the migrant had a previous residence within the Rufiji HDSS.

Out-migration: Date of out-migration, Individual ID, reason for out-migration and destination of migration episode. Finally, the social economic status information is updated once per year.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Demography [N01.224]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Emigration and Immigration [N01.224.625.350]	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

Fertility, Mortality, Migration The Ifakara Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) area is located in southern Tanzania in parts of two districts, Kilombero and Ulanga both in Morogoro region (latitude 8° 00.'to 8° 35'S, altitude 35° 58 to 36° 48'E). Cover a total of 25 villages in rural area of Ulanga nd Kilombero districts, with a population of about 124,000 people in 28,000 households.

The Ifakara Rural DSS covered a total of 25 villages in Ulanga and Kilombero districts comprising 127,450 people residing in 22,670 households. In 2007, the Ifakara HDSS extended its area of coverage by including 5 villages of Ifakara town which comprised by 45000 people residing in approximately 12000 households. This is a home of about 25% of the African population with social, economic and demographic importance.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
iSHARE2 Technical Team	iS2TT	INDEPTH Network	Documentation of the study
INDEPTH Network	int.indepth	INDEPTH Network	agency
Imani Irema	II	Ifakara Health Institute	DDI Author

2017-05-20 CMD2014.v1: 2017-05-20

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