Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland. Data and analyses

Analysis scripts, anonymized data, and questionnaire scripts for: "Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland". The following questionnaires are available: A household survey asking about household-level risk factors and household demographics; A contact survey asking about social contacts within the 24 hours before the survey, and individual-level risk factors for respiratory infections; A form to enter anthropometric measures; A form to ask neighbours of shelters that were absent on all visits about the status of these shelters. Only a subset of the data collected with these questionnaires during the survey has been used for this analysis. Data has been anonymized, and links between household-, contact-, and nutrition- data have been removed. The anonymized data can be used to replicate all analyses, figures, and tables in the manuscript. The following datasets are included: Reported household-level risk-factors collected with the s1_household form; Age-group and sex of household members collected with the s1_household form; Age of people reported to have left surveyed households in the six months preceding the survey collected with the s1_household form; Age of people reported to have died in surveyed households in the six months preceding the survey collected with the s1_household form; Status of shelters where no individual was present on repeat visits, according to their neighbours collected with the s4_missing_houses form; Non-contact related individual-level risk factors collected with the s2_contacts form; Contact-related information from contactors (participants in the contact survey) collected with the s2_contacts form; Information about contactees reported by contactors collected with the s2_contacts form; Anthropometric assessments of children aged 6 to 59 months old, who were included in the contact survey collected with the s3_anthropometry form and; Combined (aggregated) datasets of contact, participant, nutrition, and household level data, used for logistic regression analysis. Social contact data for internally displaced people (IDP) living in Digaale IDP camp in Somaliland has been uploaded to Zenodo. Participants reported all their direct contacts in the 24 hours preceding the survey. This survey was conducted in 2019. Data is formatted to be used in the socialmixr package in R.

Contact patterns, Acute Respiratory Infection, Internally displaced people, Humanitarian crises