Malaria {MLGdata}

Malaria Transmission in the Western Kenyan Highlands

Description

The dataset contains information on 8204 individuals enrolled in concurrent school and community cross-sectional surveys, conducted in 46 school clusters in the western Kenyan highlands. Malaria was assessed by rapid diagnostic test (RDT).

Usage

Malaria

Format

The data frame has 8204 observations on the following variables

Cluster

unique ID for each of the 46 school clusters

Long

longitude coordinate of the household location

Lat

latitude coordinate of the household location

RDT

binary variable indicating the outcome of the RDT (1, positive; 0, negative)

Gender

factor variable indicating the gender of the sampled individual (Female, Male)

Age

age of the sampled individual (in years)

NetUse

binary variable indicating whether the sampled individual slept under a bed net the previous night (1, yes; 0, no)

MosqCntl

binary variable indicating whether the household has used some kind of mosquito control, such as sprays and coils (1, yes; 0, no)

IRS

binary variables in indicating whether there has been indoor residual spraying (IRS) in the house in the last 12 months (1, yes; 0, no)

Travel

binary variable indicating whether the sampled individual has travelled outside the village in the last three months (1, yes; 0, no)

SES

ordinal variable indicating the socio-economic status (SES) of the household. The variable is an integer score from 1 (poor) to 5 (rich)

District

factor variable indicating the village of the sampled individual (Kisii Central, Rachuonyo)

Survey

factor variables indicating the survey in which the participant was enrolled (community, school)

Source

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtYmdnbG9iYWxoZWFsdGh8Z3g6NjZhNzc4YzdkOWViNTRjNw

References

Stevenson, J.C., Stresman, G.H., Gitonga, C.W., Gillig, J., Owaga, C., Marube, E., Odongo, W., Okoth, A., China, P., Oriango, R. e Brooker, S.J. (2013). Reliability of school surveys in estimating geographic variation in malaria transmission in the western Kenyan highlands. PLoS One, 8, e77641.