Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi
This paper describes and evaluates the first demographic surveillance system (DSS) in Malawi, covering a rural population of 30,000. Unlike others, the Karonga DSS relies on trained village informants using formatted registers for the primary notification of vital events and migrations. Seven proj...
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| author | Basia Zaba Venance Mwinuka Elenaus Mwaiyeghele Johnbosco Mwafilaso Nuala McGrath Judith R. Glynn Paul EM Fine Amelia C. Crampin Keith Branson Andreas Jahn |
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| description | This paper describes and evaluates the first demographic surveillance system (DSS) in Malawi, covering a rural population of 30,000. Unlike others, the Karonga DSS relies on trained village informants using formatted registers for the primary notification of vital events and migrations. Seven project enumerators subsequently collect detailed data on events notified by the village informants, using stringent identification procedures for households and individuals. Internal movements are traced systematically to augment event registration and data quality. Continuous evaluation of data collection is built into the methods. A re-census conducted after 2 years indicated that the routine system had registered 97% of 1,588 births, 99% of 521 deaths and 92% of 13,168 movements. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6b5cff77d563444eaf378105ab20bc542022-12-22T02:47:07ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712007-03-01168Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern MalawiBasia ZabaVenance MwinukaElenaus MwaiyegheleJohnbosco MwafilasoNuala McGrathJudith R. GlynnPaul EM FineAmelia C. CrampinKeith BransonAndreas JahnThis paper describes and evaluates the first demographic surveillance system (DSS) in Malawi, covering a rural population of 30,000. Unlike others, the Karonga DSS relies on trained village informants using formatted registers for the primary notification of vital events and migrations. Seven project enumerators subsequently collect detailed data on events notified by the village informants, using stringent identification procedures for households and individuals. Internal movements are traced systematically to augment event registration and data quality. Continuous evaluation of data collection is built into the methods. A re-census conducted after 2 years indicated that the routine system had registered 97% of 1,588 births, 99% of 521 deaths and 92% of 13,168 movements.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol16/8/demographic surveillance systemevaluationINDEPTH networkKarongaMalawimethodsmigrationvillage informantvital registration |
| spellingShingle | Basia Zaba Venance Mwinuka Elenaus Mwaiyeghele Johnbosco Mwafilaso Nuala McGrath Judith R. Glynn Paul EM Fine Amelia C. Crampin Keith Branson Andreas Jahn Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi Demographic Research demographic surveillance system evaluation INDEPTH network Karonga Malawi methods migration village informant vital registration |
| title | Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi |
| title_full | Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi |
| title_fullStr | Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi |
| title_short | Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi |
| title_sort | evaluation of a village informant driven demographic surveillance system in karonga northern malawi |
| topic | demographic surveillance system evaluation INDEPTH network Karonga Malawi methods migration village informant vital registration |
| url | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol16/8/ |
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