Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (IMHDSS)
IMHDSS collects data on all households in the Iganga and Mayuge districts in eastern Uganda. The IMHDSS study site includes 65 villages in 7 sub-counties. The cohort includes participants of any age as long as they reside within the study area. Migrants are also included in the cohort provided they reside in the study area for at least four consecutive months. At baseline in 2005, the cohort included 11,742 households. As of 2017, the study included over 94,000 individulas living in 18,634 households.
Study design
Cohort - open
Number of participants at first data collection
94,568 (participants as of 2017)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
All residents in the Iganga and Mayuge districts in eastern Uganda.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2004
Primary Institutions
Makerere University
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Karolinska Institute (Karolinska Institutet, KI)
Makerere University
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Styrelsen för internationellt utvecklingssamarbete, SIDA)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- None
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
