Economic data for the Afghan refugee malaria control programme in Pakistan 1990-1995 – User Guide

Persistent identifier

10.17037/DATA.260

Description

Costing data for the overall programme and provider totals, provider totals for case management and vector control, household costs, sources of finance, and malaria incidence over a five-year period.

The Afghan refugee programme cost data is comprised of ten tables/files that are labelled as follows:

• cost_per_kg
• outcomes
• patient
• Programme_total
• provider_d&t
• provider_D&T_by_sector
• provider_total
• provider_vc
• provider_vc_by_sector
• sources_of_finance

Data collection methods

Data were collected from provider records.

Geographic regions

Afghan refugee camps NWFP/KPK Pakistan.

Key dates

Data collected between 1990 and 1995 and reported in 1996.

Quality controls

Quality checks by data provider are unknown.

Population

Afghan refugee population

Privacy

The dataset identifies specific organisations that participated in the programme. These organisation have given permission to be identified on condition that the dataset is used for academic research purposes only and the organisations are not named in publications or other outputs that arise from the use of this data.

No individual-level patient or household data are included - the dataset contains only aggregate data.

Ethics

Local ethics approval for operational research was provided by the UNHCR Pakistan office. Approval for retrospective data analysis was provided by the research ethics committee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (reference 5508).

Keywords

Malaria; Indoor Residual Spraying; Case Management; Costing Data

Language of written material

English

Project information

Creators

Associated Roles

File Description

The Afghan refugee programme cost data are held as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (access copy) and a set of tab-delimited text files (preservation copy).