inSCALE Baseline Cross-Sectional Survey Uganda - User Guide

Permanent Identifier

10.17037/DATA.00000796

Data 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. ‘inSCALE_baseline’ master table covers 1 child per row,
  2. ‘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).
  3. ‘inSCALE_baseline_extra_cost’table containing additional data on household direct and indirect costs of care seeking collected in the baseline survey.

Data Collection Methods

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

Geographic regions

West Uganda

Key dates

Data collection was performed between May & August 2011

Species:

Human population

Ethics

LSHTM Ethics ID: ref 5762 (2010, amendment 2011)

Keywords

inSCALE, Integrated community case management, Appropriate treatment, Child health, Malaria, Diarrhoea, Pneumonia, Community health workers, Uganda

Language of written material

English

Project title

Innovations at Scale for Community Access and Lasting Effects (inSCALE Trial)

Funder/Sponsor

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Grant Number

EPNPVW25

Data Creators

Forename Surname Faculty / Dept Institution Role
Seyi Soremekun Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health / Dept. of Population Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Data Creator / Contact person

Associated Roles

Forename Surname Faculty / Dept Institution Role
Betty Kirkwood Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health / Dept. of Population Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Project Leader
Patrick Lumumba     Data Manager

File Description

Filename Description Access status Licence
inSCALE_baseline.csv Master table covers 1 child per row Request access to all Data Transfer Agreement
inSCALE_long_baseline.csv 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). Request access to all Data Transfer Agreement
inSCALE_baseline_codebook.html Data dictionary for the inSCALE baseline dataset Open Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
inSCALE_long_baseline_codebook.html Data dictionary for the inSCALE long baseline dataset Open Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)