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All Bioimpedance and Hand-grip Data (Karonga and Lilongwe combined data)

Malawi, 2016 - 2019
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MWI-MEIRU-bioimp-handgrip-combined-v01
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Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS Lilongwe HDSS
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  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    MWI-MEIRU-bioimp-handgrip-combined-v01

    Title

    All Bioimpedance and Hand-grip Data (Karonga and Lilongwe combined data)

    Country
    Name
    Malawi
    Abstract

    Data on bio-impedance and hand-grip were collected in several studies in Karonga and Lilongwe, and these data are combined into one dataset using the do-file bioimp_handgrip_combine.do

    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Version

    Version Date

    2020-06-16

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Karonga and Lilongwe

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2016-06-26 2019-06-01 1
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]

    Access policy

    Archive where study is originally stored

    MEIRU

    Data Access

    Access conditions

    This data is made available for licensed access under the following conditions:

    1. Data and other material provided by MEIRU will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions or organisations without MEIRU's written agreement.

    2. In the case of multi-centre datasets, data originating from a single contributing member centre of the collaboration may not be analysed or reported on in isolation without the express permission of the member centre concerned.

    3. No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and there will be no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery will be reported immediately to MEIRU.

    4. No attempt will be made to produce links between datasets provided by MEIRU or between MEIRU data and other datasets that could identify individuals.

    5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports or other publications employing data obtained from MEIRU will cite the source, in line with the citation requirement provided with the dataset.

    6. An electronic copy of all publications based on the requested data will be sent to MEIRU.

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI-MWI-MEIRU-bioimp-handgrip-combined-2020-v01

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Themba Chirwa TC MEIRU Metadata entry and editing Officer
    Elizabeth Munthali EM MEIRU Metadata Supervisor
    Chifundo Kanjala CK MEIRU Data Documentation project management
    Estelle McLean EM LSHTM and MEIRU Production of the documentation used to create this DDI document
    Mia Crampin MC LSHTM and MEIRU Study level metadata
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit MEIRU Agency
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-06-16

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    version 1 (June 2020)

    Version notes

    v1: Edited data, first version, for internal use only

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