Tanzania - Rufiji HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 1999-2014 (Release 2017)

Tanzania Rufiji HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 1999-2014 (Release 2017)

Demographic Surveillance Rounds 0 is baseline.

Three rounds per year from 1998 to 2012.

Two round per year from 2013 onwards.

Completed 44 rounds till December 2013.

Completed 48 rounds till December 2015.

ID Number INDEPTH.TZ012.CMD2014.V1

Homestead: In this subject the following information are collected: Latitude, longitude, altitude, village name, village code, name of hamlet and location identifier (Location ID). Household: Rufiji HDSS define household as a as a group of individuals sharing, or who eat from, the same cooking pot. In this subject the following in are collected: Household name and household head.

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

To residency, the following information such as residency status (resident, died, out-migrated), marital status to members with =13 years of age, pregnancy status for women aged 13-49 years, location ID and Individual ID are collected.

Pregnancy outcome: In this theme, the following information are collected; live birth, number of babies, still birth, abortion, date of birth, place of birth, names (3), sex of child, mother's personal identity number (link), father's personal identity number.

Death: In this theme information collect are, date of death, place of death, individual ID, Age at Death and field worker collected.

Verbal Autopsy is 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 (3), 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.

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 Demographic Surveillance Area (DSA) is located in Rufiji District, Coastal Region Tanzania about 178 km south of Dar es Salaam city and extends between south latitude -7.47° and -8.03°S and east longitude 38.62° and 39.17°E. The Rufiji HDSS covers 1,813 km2 that comprising 38 villages of Rufiji district. The district is largely rural though population is clustered around Utete (outside the DSA, District headquarters), Ikwiriri, Kibiti and Bungu townships (Figure 2). The population density of Rufiji HDSS is about 53 people per kilometer square and the average population per village is about 2,552 inhabitants.

As a district observatory, information which is collected by Rufiji HDSS can be used by nearby districts with similar ecological characteristics for planning purposes

All residents in HDSS area

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

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

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