Ghana - Dodowa HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 2006-2011 (Release 2018)

Reference ID

INDEPTH.GH031.CMD2011.v1

Year

2006 - 2011

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Dr. John Williams - Dodwa Health Research Centre

Sponsor(s)

Ghana Health Service - -
INDEPTH Network - -

Collection(s)

Africa Region – Release 2018

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Jun 30, 2018

Last modified

Jun 30, 2018

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Overview

Identification

Country

Ghana

Title

Dodowa HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 2006-2011 (Release 2018)

Study Type

Demographic Surveillance

Series Information

This dateset contains round 1 to 16 of demographic surveillance covering the perion from Jan 2005 to December 2015.

Two round data collection was conducted yearly, but one round in 2012 and 2013. The information on every individual under surveillance was updated every update round except for one part of the surveillance area (Ningo Prampram District) where the first up date round we done in 2006.

ID Number

INDEPTH.GH031.CMD2011.v1

Version

Version Description

CMD2011.v1

Production Date

2018-06-30

Notes

CMD2011.v1: First extracted micro dataset for Release 2018

Overview

Abstract

The Dodowa Health and Demographic Surveillance System (DHDSS) operates in the south-eastern part of Ghana. It was established in 2005 after an initial attempt in 2003 by the Dodowa Health Research Centre (DHRC) to have an accurate population base for piloting a community health insurance scheme.

The surveillance area of 1,528.9 sq km currently covers two districts in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana namely the Shai-Osudoku and Ningo-Prampram. These two districts were until 2012 one district .

As at 2012, the DHDSS had registered 115, 754 residents in 23 647 households. The district is fairly rural, with scattered settlements. Information on pregnancies, births, deaths, migration and marriages using household registration books administered by trained fieldworkers is obtained biannually. Education, immunization status and household socioeconomic measures are obtained annually and verbal autopsies (VA) are conducted on all deaths. Community key informants (CKI) complement the work of field staff by notifying the field office of events that occur after a fieldworker has left a community.

The centre has very close working relationships with the district health directorate and the local government authority.

The DHDSS subscribes to the INDEPTH data-sharing policy and in addition, contractual arrangements are made with various institutions on specific data-sharing issues.

Kind of Data

Event history data

Units of Analysis

Individual

Scope

Notes

This study respondents are all the respondets in the Dodowa HDSS from 2005 to 2012.

It specifically includes the events defining the resident exposure of individuals under surveillance as well as the delivery events of respondents women. Each type of event contains minimal attributes describing the events.

Attributes common to each event:

Event type

Event Date

Observation Date

Migration:

Origin and Destination

Delivery:

Live born and still born counts

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Demography [N01.224]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Age Distribution [N01.224.033]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Ethnic Groups [N01.224.317]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Emigration and Immigration [N01.224.625.350]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Residential Mobility [N01.224.791.700]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Sex Distribution [N01.224.803]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Birth Rate [N01.224.935.849.500]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Life Tables [N01.224.935.530]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Marital Status [N01.224.361.500]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Life Expectancy [N01.224.935.464]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Pregnancy Rate [N01.224.935.849]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh

Keywords

Fertility, Mortality, Migration, Population

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The Dodowa HDSS operates within the boundaries of the Shai-Osudoku and Ningo-Prampram districts, formerly the Dangme West district. It is one of 10 districts in the Greater Accra Region located in the south-eastern part of Ghana and lies between latitude 5° 45' south and 6° 05' north and longitude 0° 05' east and 0° 20' west. With a land area of 1528.9 sq km, the district covers about 41.5% of the Region. It is about 41 km from the national capital, Accra.

Universe

Resident household members of househlds resident within the demographic surveillance area. Inmigrants are defineed by intention to become resident but actual residence episodes of less than 3 months is censored, Outmigrants are defined by intention to become resident elsewhere, but actual period of non-residence less than 3 months are censored.

Children born to resident woemen are considered resident by default, irrespective of actual place birth.

The dateset contains the events of all individuals ever resident during the study period (Jan 2006-Dec 2015)

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Dr. John Williams	Dodwa Health Research Centre

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
Gabriel Odonkor	GH031	Data Manager
Solomon Narh-Bana	GH031	Head of Information & Data Processing
Richard Afedi Nagai	GH031	Data Manager HDSS

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
Ghana Health Service
INDEPTH Network

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Dangme West district (now Shai-Osudoku and Ningo-Prampram districts)	Dangme West District Assembly
Greater Accra Regional Health Directorates
Research and Development Division of the Ghana Health services

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
iSHARE2 Technical Team	iS2TT	INDEPTH Network	Documentation of the study
INDEPTH Network	int.indepth	INDEPTH Network	agency
Gabriel Odonkor	GO	Dodowa HDSS - Ghana Health Service	DDI Author

Date of Metadata Production

2018-06-30

DDI Document Version

Version GH031.CMD2011.v1 (June 2018)

DDI Document ID

DDI.INDEPTH.GH031.CMD2011.v1