The Africa Centre has built up, since January 2000, an extensive longitudinal database of demographic, social, medical and economic information about the members of its Demographic Surveillance Area, which is situated in a rural area of northern KwaZulu Natal where HIV prevalence is extremely high.  It has developed from this database, the following suite of datasets which can be used both internally within the organisation, and by other researchers.

A good introduction to the data, plus references to numerous publications using the data, is available here.  An excellent non-technical introduction is also provided by the ACDIS fieldwork manual, available here (8Mb pdf).

To obtain the actual data a Data Use Agreement form (available here), plus accompanying motivation, and an Analysis Plan etc, must have been received and approved/authorised by senior Africa Centre staff.

If you might need ad hoc datasets, beyond those listed below, please discuss your requirements with Africa Centre.

Core Datasets

 1% sample downloadable datasets

 Documentation

1. Individuals
2. Households
3. Bounded Structures
4. Pregnancies
5. Deaths
6. Household Memberships (who belongs to which household(s)
7. Individual Residencies (who resides where)
8. Household Residencies (which households resides where)
9. Conjugal Relationships
10. Household Head Relationships
11. Member Status Observations (one per individual per round)
12. Bounded Structure States (Under construction / Usable / Broken down)
13. Bounded Structure Type (Homesteads, School, Clinic etc)
14. Migrations
15. Vaccinations

Demography Dataset

1.     Demography

Module Datasets

General Health
A. Women 15-49 years
1.     2000-2002 ("WHL")
2.     2003-2004
3.     2005
4.     2006
5.     2007
6.     2008
7.     2009  (ages 15 and over)
8.     2010  (ages 15 and over)

B. Men 15-54 years
1.     2003-4
2.     2005
3.     2006
4.     2007
5.     2008
6.     2009  (ages 15 and over )
7.     2010  (ages 15 and over)

C. Women 50 years and over
1.     2007
2.     2008  

D. Men 55 years and over
1.     2007
2.     2008

HIV Surveillance
1.     2002-2004
2.     2005
3.     2006
4.     2007
5.     2008
6.     2009
7.     2010

HSE (Household Socio-Economic Status)
A.  Household-level data (Assets, Facilities, Economic shocks, Grants, Crime, etc.)
1.     2001
2.     2003
3.     2005
4.     2006
5.     2007
6.     2009
7.     2010

B.  Individual-level data (Education, Employment, Income, Religion, etc.)
1.     2001
2.     2003
3.     2005
4.     2006
5.     2007
6.     2009
7.     2010

Illness and Death
        Illness and Death

Verbal Autopsies
1.     Questionnaire Chapter 1 Identification & Disease History
2.     Questionnaire Chapter 2 Injuries, Tetanus & Rabies
3.     Questionnaire Chapter 3 Adults and children of 5 years & more
4.     Questionnaire Chapter 4 Maternal Deaths
5.     Questionnaire Chapter 5 Neonates (<29 days)
6.     Questionnaire Chapter 6 Children >28 days & less than 5 years
7.     Narrative
8.     Checklist