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CRS Cleaned residency episodes

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MWI-MEIRU-CRSresidency-2002-v1
Producer(s)
Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
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Karonga HDSS
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  • Access policy
  • Data Access
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    MWI-MEIRU-CRSresidency-2002-v1
    Title

    CRS Cleaned residency episodes
    Country
    Name Country code
    Malawi MWI
    Study type

    Demographic Surveillance
    Abstract

    crs_residency_episodes_clean datasets consist of episodes (with a start and a stop date) when people were resident in the CRS. Each individual may have multiple records, and records should be unique on ident, crshse and startdate.

    The cleaning process first cleans data errors which result in overlapping episodes in the same house (e.g. when the dates of someone's episode overlap with another of their episodes in the same household) and then cleans the overlapping episodes in different houses: the latter may be data errors or they may be correct due to some men being head of multiple households if they are married polygamously. To distinguish between the errors and the polygamous episodes the dataset polyheads is merged in (a derived table made by house_head_list.do). The overlapping head episodes are kept for the _poly version of the output but not for the _nopoly version. The data cleaning may have resulted in some of the other variables not making sense, so they are altered as well.
    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Version

    Version Date

    2020-06-17

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit London School of Hygein and Tropical Medicine
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name
    MEIRU Core datamanagement team

    Data collection

    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Abbreviation
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit MEIRU

    Access policy

    Archive where study is originally stored

    Chilumba

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
    Access conditions

    These data are 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-crsresidency-2002-v1
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Chifundo Kanjala CK MEIRU Documentation planning and supervision
    Elizabeth Munthali EM MEIRU Metadata entry and editing
    Estelle McLean EM LSHTM Production of the documentation used to create this DDI document
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-06-17
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