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INDEPTH Network adds more health and demographic data to its publicly available online data archives
- INDEPTH strengthens data management systems in health research and improves access to information for better science and health policy.
- The freely accessible INDEPTH Data Repository (www.indepth-ishare.org ) now has datasets from 26 member health research centres in Africa and Asia, which include 30 HDSS field sites
- The freely accessible INDEPTHStats (www.indepth-ishare.org/indepthstats) now has datasets from 26 member research centres in Africa and Asia, which include from 34 HDSS field sites
Accra, Ghana, 1st July 2017 – The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Population and Their Health (INDEPTH) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) announces IMPORTANT UPDATES to the Core Micro Datasets and Documentation on the INDEPTH Data Repository (www.indepth-ishare.org) and on its associated data visualization website, INDEPTHStats (www.indepth-ishare.org/indepthstats). These are two unique online data archives that continue to build and strengthen capacity for research data management, health and scientific research in LMICs as well as improving access to fully documented high quality longitudinal datasets by the scientific community and health policy makers worldwide. Moreover, these datasets also represent a valuable teaching resource..
At the completion of this year’s updates, the INDEPTH Data Repository, launched in 2013, would hold data on over 1.9 million individuals and more than 31 million person-years of observation representing the first harmonised database of longitudinal population-based data from LMICs (for a total of 85 published datasets since inception).
The INDEPTH Resource and Training Centre has shared the newly designed INDEPTH Strategic Plan 2017-2021. Please see it at this link: INDEPTH Strategic Plan 2017 - 2021
The INDEPTH Data Repository is an online archive of fully documented high-quality longitudinal datasets from INDEPTH member Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) centres. It is the first repository that specializes in longitudinal population-based data from LMICs.
INDEPTH adds Cause of Death data to its freely available online data archives.
Indepth added Cause of Death Data based on VA on its freely avaialbe online data archives on 29thOctober 2014. The launch of the dataset has been highlighted in:
- South Africa Mail & Guardian
- INDEPTH Network
- The Wellcome Trust
- Wits
- MRC The Gambia
- Agincourt
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, US)
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