Bandafassi Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (Bandafassi HDSS)
The Bandafassi HDSS is located in south-eastern Senegal, near the borders of Mali and Guinea. The area is 700 km from the national capital, Dakar. The population under surveillance is rural, and in 2012 it comprised 13,378 inhabitants living in 42 villages. Established in 1970, originally for genetic studies, and initially covering only villages inhabited by one subgroup of the population of the area (the Mandinka), the project was transformed a few years later into a Health and Demographic Surveillance Site and then extended to the two other subgroups living in the area: Fula villages in 1975 and Bedik villages in 1980. Data gathered include births, marriages, migrations, and deaths (including their causes). One specific feature of the Bandafassi HDSS is the availability of genealogies.
Study design
Household panel
Number of participants at first data collection
13,378 (participants as of 2012)
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1970
Primary Institutions
Research Institute for Development (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le SIDA
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
European Union (EU)
French Institute for Demographic Studies (Institut National d'Etudes Démographique, INED)
French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
- Medical birth registry
- Mortality data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
