Casual and close contact data for buildings in South Africa and Zambia - Data Codebook

Persistent identifier

10.17037/DATA.28

Description

The dataset contains data on buildings visited during a 24 hour period by 3211 adults from Zambia and Western Cape South Africa. Data includes basic demographic information, building function, visit duration, and number of adults/youths and children (5-12 years) present. Data were collected using a retrospective interviewer-administered questionnaire.

Codebook

Individuals table

The Individuals table contains seven variables.

Variable Name Variable Label Answer Label Answer Code Variable Type
individual_ID Participant ID (unlinked) Open ended   Numeric
sex Participant sex     String
    Female female  
    Male male  
country Country     String
    SA South Africa  
    Zambia Zambia  
comid Community ID number     Numeric
gender Participant gender     Numeric
    Female 2  
    Male 1  
age Participant age Open ended   Numeric
sampling_weight Sampling weight Open ended   String

Buildings

The Buildings table contains nine variables.

Variable Name Variable Label Answer Label Answer Code Variable Type
individual_ID Individual ID number Open ended   Numeric
building_number Order the building was reported by the respondent 1 to 9   Numeric
building_type Type of building     Numeric
    Other home 0  
    Shop 1  
    Church 2  
    Bar/disco/shebeen 3  
    School 4  
    Clinic/hospital 5  
    Hairdresser/Barber 6  
    Your work building 7  
    Other 8  
time_in_building Time spent in building     Numeric
    Less than 5 minutes 0  
    5-10 minutes 1  
    11-59 minutes 2  
    1-4 hours 3  
    5-8 hours 4  
    9-13 hours 5  
    More than 14 hours 6  
adults_present Number of adults/youths present     Numeric
    Less than 5 0  
    5 to 9 1  
    10 to 20 2  
    More than 20 3  
children_present Number of children present     Numeric
    Less than 5 0  
    5 to 9 1  
    10 to 20 2  
    More than 20 3  
community Is this building inside you community?     Numeric
    No 0  
    Yes 1  
    Not recorded .  
visits_number Did you visit this building more than once?     Numeric
    No 0  
    Yes 1  
    Not recorded .  
date_created Date information recorded DD/MM/YY:hh:mm:ss   Date