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Health Poverty and Place: Modeling Inequalities in Accra Using RS and GIS (ICPSR 36015)

Released/updated on: 2015-06-22

Geographic coverage: Africa, Ghana

This project collects data on geographic differentials in health and mortality in urban Accra, Ghana. It uses remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) technology to measure the association of adverse health outcomes with neighborhood ecology, collects observations of physical features and build structures visible from satellite imagery, and assesses additional community-level variables such as social organization and institutions. This study also uses census and survey data on the area. The respondents to the 2003 Accra Women's Health Survey are also re-interviewed on health outcomes.

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Integrated Samples of Eurasian Censuses (ICPSR 36008)

Released/updated on: 2015-06-19

Geographic coverage: Asia

This project preserves, integrates, and freely disseminates large-scale Eurasian population microdata samples. It covers Asia, prepares 40 additional census microdata samples for release, improves the geographic variables in the database, and recovers data at risk of destruction. In addition to adding new partner countries, the expansion of the database adds new samples from the 2010 round of censuses for countries already incorporated into the integrated data series, and increases the size of several existing samples.

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Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses (ICPSR 35983)

Released/updated on: 2015-06-18

Geographic coverage: Latin America

This project develops and supports a vast archive of large-scale microdata from over 100 censuses of 23 Latin American countries enumerated over the past half century. These data are a vital component of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS). The project expands the database and adds data for four new countries, new 2010 round samples for countries currently in the database, and new higher-density versions of several existing samples.

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National Spatiotemporal Population Research Infrastructure (ICPSR 35986)

Released/updated on: 2015-06-18

Geographic coverage: United States

This project expands and improves the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), which is the nation's most comprehensive source for statistical data, geographic data, and metadata describing spatial characteristics of the American population. It expands the NHGIS database by adding all new American Community Survey summary files, new historical census data, new health data sets, and additional integrated time series tables.

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TAZAMA Health and Demographic Surveillance System, 1994-2012 (ICPSR 29541)

Released/updated on: 2014-11-18

Geographic coverage: Africa, Tanzania

Time period: 1994-01-01--2012-01-01

The TAZAMA Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) study site is located in the Kisesa and Bukandwe rural electoral wards in the Magu district of the Mwanza Region in Northern Tanzania. The two wards are comprised of six villages. There is one health center and five dispensaries (3 public and 2 private) in the study area. The two wards have eleven government primary schools (at least one in each village) and two secondary schools. Both Mwanza city and Magu town are accessible to residents; buses run along the main road and take about an hour and a half to get to Mwanza. Most of the residents are subsistence farmers; a lot of surplus agricultural produce is traded in Mwanza, which is Tanzania's second city. In the year 2012, the research study covered a population of about 30,000 people who live in the Kisesa and Bukandwe wards. The majority of the residents (about ninety five per cent) belong to the Sukuma ethnic group.

The DSS collects information on births and deaths and movements in and out of the households. It helps researchers to understand the population dynamics in the study area including fertility, mortality and migration patterns. It provides information on the structure of families that live together. The DSS study is also used to identify people who are eligible to participate in the serological surveys (the right age group, and continuously resident rather than just visiting). It provides the data for calculating the denominators for demographic rates.

The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to improve understanding of the dynamics of the HIV epidemic; (2) to assess the demographic, social and economic impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic; (3) to evaluate the effects of national prevention, treatment and care interventions as implemented in Kisesa Ward; (4) to measure child and adult mortality and fertility in the general population and by HIV status; (5) to asses the leading causes of death through verbal autopsy; (6) to assess changes in the family structure due to HIV epidemic; and (7) to provide reliable data for district health planning.