inSCALE Baseline Cross-Sectional Survey Uganda

Soremekun, S. 2018. inSCALE Baseline Cross-Sectional Survey Uganda. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00000796.

Soremekun, S. inSCALE Baseline Cross-Sectional Survey Uganda [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00000796.

Soremekun, S (2018). inSCALE Baseline Cross-Sectional Survey Uganda. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00000796.

Description

A data collection containing information on 6,501 children under 5 years of age in West Uganda. Data was collected during May - August 2011 as part of a baseline survey prior to implementation of the inSCALE c-RCT in the site. Dataset variables cover socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of households, symptoms of the most recent illness episode for the children during the two weeks preceding the survey, care seeking behaviour, treatments received and details of all self-reported out-of-pocket costs associated with care seeking for the episode of illness. Three datasets are made available: [1] The ‘inSCALE_baseline’ master table covers 1 child per row, and [2] a ‘inSCALE_long_baseline’ table with 1 illness condition per row (if child had more than one illness defined, one row is created for each illness) (5057 - only sick children included hence lower total), and [3] 'inSCALE_baseline_extra_cost' table containing additional data on household direct and indirect costs of care seeking collected in the baseline survey.

Methods

Description of data capture

Data was collected by trained field technicians who visited a list of households pre-selected from a sampling frame provided by the study epidemiologist. Data on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of households, symptoms of the most recent illness episode in children under 5 years of age in the two weeks preceding the survey, care seeking behaviour, treatments received and details of all the self-reported out-of-pocket costs associated with care seeking for the episode of illness, were collected from the primary carer. The survey questionnaires were based on Demographic Health Survey (DHS)/Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) child health and heath economics survey instruments used extensively in low and middle income countries

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face, Questionnaire

Data Collection Period

From	To
May 2011	August 2011

Date (Completed)

April 2018

Geographical area covered

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
3.82608	32.6446	-1.3565	29.6564

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Soremekun, S
Associated roles	Lumumba, P (Data Manager) and Kirkwood, B (Project Leader)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- )
Research Group	Maternal and Child Health Intervention Research
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, University College London, London, United Kingdom, The Malaria Consortium