Data for: "Fertility desire for men and women: Magu Health and Demographic surveillance system" - User Guide

Permanent identifier

https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002883

Description

Dataset containing measurements collected in a 2012 and 2016 sero-survey, conducted as part of the Magu Health and Demographic System. The aim was to assess the association between fertility desire level and HIV infection before and after earlier antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation programme implementation. The study population was comprised of men and women, aged 15 years and above, who were located in one of nine villages in three wards in North-West Tanzania.

Keywords

Fertility, Fertility desire, HIV, antiretroviral therapy, Tanzania, population survey

Data collection methods

All data were collected on computer tablets or personal digit assistants (PDA), using standardised questionnaires captured by CSPro, and loaded into a SQL database. The primary outcome was the desire to bear one or more child (ren) in the next two years while exposure of interest was HIV infection. HIV status information was obtained from field HIV testing using Tanzanian standards of HIV test.

Data analysis and preparation

Data were cleaned and analysed using STATA version 16.1.

Geographic regions

The study was conducted at Magu Health and Demographic surveillance system site. The site is located in Magu District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania and consists of all residents in nine villages in three wards in North-West Tanzania.

Key dates

We collected two sets of data:

• Fertility desire_2012_Magu HDSS_Tanzania: start date (December 2012) end date (July 2013)
• Fertility desire_2017_Magu HDSS_Tanzania: start date (September 2016) end date (February 2017)
• Date of submission to repository: 9 May 2022

Population

The study population comprised of men and women, aged 15 years or over, who were living in the catchment area of Magu HDSS.

Geographic regions

North-West Tanzania.

Privacy

Study participants were assigned a study number, no names were used.

Ethics

Ethical approvals were obtained from the following organisations.

All participants who contributed data for analysis provided written informed consent for study participation, data use and publication of the results. Parents/care giver consented on behalf of study participants who were aged less than 18 years.

Language of written material

English

Project information

This research was funded  in part, by the Wellcome Trust 107742/Z/15/Z and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, with support from the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science in Africa (DELTAS Africa) programme. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

The data from Magu HDSS site was obtained from the funding received from the Netherlands Government and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (TNZ- 405-G04-H and TNZ-911-G14-S).

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