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South African Population Research Infrastructure Network
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South African Population Research Infrastructure Network

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The objective of SAPRIN is to draw together and harmonise a network of South Africa’s health and demographic surveillance sites (HDSS) situated in rural and urban setting, each with a population of at least 100 000 individuals under surveillance.
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Members

Affiliated Members
Investigators Contacts
  • Dr. Kobus Herbst
    University of Witwatersrand
  • Prof. Mark Collinson
    University of Witwatersrand

General Information

Year created
2016
Types of cohorts
  • Population cohort
Countries
  • South Africa
Setting
National
Funding
This project has received funding from the Department of Science and Technology, Republic of SouthAfrica
Criteria of cohort's to be included
Standardised, population-based data in geographically-defined sections of impoverished communities.
Health topic
  • Public health
Socio-environmental context
  • Climate change
  • Urbanization
  • Migration

Participants

Number of participants

Total
315,000
With harmonized data
315,000

Age range of the samples

Minimum age
0
Maximum age
120

Methodology for harmonization and integration

Strategy of harmonization
Ex-post
Data processing methods
  • Algorithmic
  • Standardisation
    • Type of infrastructure
    Some centrally, other locally
    Integrative data analysis
    • Pooled analyses
    Software
  • Other
    • Supplementary information
    Datasets are organized in http://saprindata.samrc.ac.za/index.php/auth/login/?destination=catalog/14/get_microdata. To obtain the data, you need to be registered. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736134/pdf/nihms925335.pdf

    Number of cohorts

    Total
    5
    With harmonized data
    3
    Will more cohorts be harmonized?
    Number of harmonized variables (max.)
    52

    Access

    Availability of metadata
    Availability of individual data

    Individual Studies

    Acronym Name Study design Participants Countries
    AHRI HDSS Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) Population Cohort Population cohort 168,000
    Agincourt HDSS MRC/Wits-Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Unit (Agincourt) Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System Population cohort 115,000
    DIMAMO HDSS Dikgale Health and Demographic Surveillance System (DHDSS) Population cohort 35,000