South Africa - ZA011 Excess Mortality: Surveillance Episodes Datasets
Reference ID | ZA011-EXMORTALITY-01 |
Year | 2015 - 2021 |
Country | South Africa |
Producer(s) |
Prof Steve Tollman - Agincourt Prof Kathleen Khan - Agincourt Dr Kobus Herbst - SAPRIN Dr Chodziwadziwa Kabudula - Agincourt Dr Beth Tippett-Barr - Nyanja Health Research Institute |
Sponsor(s) | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA - BMGF - Current Funder South African Population Research Infrastructure Network, South Africa - SAPRIN - Current Funder Wellcome Trust, UK - Wellcome - Previous Funder |
Metadata | Documentation in PDF |
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Dec 22, 2023
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Mar 22, 2024
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Data Collection
Data Collection Dates
Start | End | Cycle |
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2015-01-01 | 2021-12-31 | Agincourt |
Time Periods
Start | End | Cycle |
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2015-01-01 | Agincourt |
Data Collection Notes
In all the HDSS nodes, data are collected from a household proxy respondent, preferably the head of household or any next available senior adult resident household member, after informed consent was obtained by trained fieldworkers. Respondents are informed of the purpose and confidentiality of the interview, their right to refuse participation or withdraw from the study, and that scientists would be given access to anonymised data to analyse and publish information. Informed consent was verbal in all HDSS nodes until 2016. Written informed consent started in 2017 in AHRI, and 2018 in DIMAMO and 2019 in Agincourt. Until 2016 for Agincourt and AHRI, and 2017 for DIMAMO, data collection was field-based 'paper and pen' personal interviews (PAPI), before changing to field-based computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI). Since 2019, all SAPRIN HDSS nodes collect data in 3 annual rounds over a 45-week data collection schedule; one field-based CAPI round, sandwiched on either side by a Call-Centre-based computer assisted telephonic interview (CATI), to create 3 data points at an interval of approximately 4 months in each calendar year. In the past HDSS nodes had different data collection frequencies. AHRI data collection was 2 PAPI rounds per year from inception to 2011, changing to 3 PAPI rounds per year between 2012 and 2016, before becoming 1 PAPI round and 2 CATI rounds from 2017. Agincourt and DIMAMO have been collecting data once annually in a census-type format, over 4-5-month period until 2018.
Questionnaires
The data on this Repository is not the result of a single questionnaire but is a result of harmonised data from three different sites longitudinally collected over more than twenty years using different questionnaires that varied over time and site.