Cape Town social contact data

McCreesh, N, Middelkoop, K and Mohlamonyane, M. 2022. Cape Town social contact data. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002756.

McCreesh, N, Middelkoop, K and Mohlamonyane, M. Cape Town social contact data [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2022. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002756.

McCreesh, N, Middelkoop, K and Mohlamonyane, M (2022). Cape Town social contact data. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002756.

Description

Social contact data collected from 1115 adults (aged 15+ years) located in Western Cape Province, South Africa. It is comprised of five data tables: [1] 'Main data' contains information on participant age, religion, education level, employment status, household income, duration lived in home, number of people in household, places worked in past 4 weeks; [2] 'Household data' contains information on the participants’ household members; [3] 'Close contacts data' contains detailed information on participants’ close contacts; [4] 'Building data' contains information on time spent and people present in indoor locations that the participants visited; and [5] 'Transport data' contains information on time spent and people present on transport used by the participants. The ODK questionnaire is also included.

Methods

Description of data capture

The study team conducted a social contact survey in a community in Western Cape, South Africa, between May and October 2019. In total, 1530 adults (aged 15+ years) were selected using age- and sex-stratified random sampling, based on a census conducted in the study population in February and March 2019. Of the 1530 people sampled, 1214 (93%) were successfully contacted, 117 (8%) had moved or died, 193 (13%) had had incorrect information listed in the census, and 6 were uncontactable. Of the 1214 people contacted, 77 (6%) refused to be interviewed and 14 were ineligible (due to disability or lack of English and isiXhosa). Of 1123 people interviewed, technical issues meant that data from 8 interviews were lost, leaving 1115 (92%) completed interviews. Participants were assigned a day at random in the previous week, and were asked for information on the people they spoke to (face to face) or touched on that day, the indoor locations they visited, and the transport they used. Basic demographic information and more detailed information on visits to certain types of location were also collected.

Data capture method

Unknown

Data Collection Period

From	To
14 May 2019	15 October 2019

Date (Completed)

24 March 2022

Geographical area covered

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
-33.8406	18.8529	-34.3694	18.316

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	McCreesh, N, Middelkoop, K and Mohlamonyane, M
Associated roles	Middelkoop, K (Co-Investigator) and Mohlamonyane, M (Data Manager)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Research Centre	Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases TB Centre
Research Group	TB Modelling Group
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa