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Data now publicly available:
The Kagera Health and Development Survey (KHDS) is a study into the long-run wealth dynamics of households and individuals within North West Tanzania. This study entails the resurvey of the panel of households, communities and service providers in the Kagera Health and Development Survey (KHDS) undertaken in 1991-1994. It involves retracing all individuals from the initial 919 households. Collection of community and service provider data augments this and enables the tracking of how service provision has developed in the region over the past ten years. The novel feature of this survey is its long time period (11-13 years) combined with locating even respondents who reside outside their original place of residence. Teams were sent across the whole of Tanzania and into neighbouring countries to collect data.
One of the prime motivations for conducting KHDS was that, despite the widely held view that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a major threat to social and economic development in Africa, household-level socioeconomic data and research which examine the dynamics of the impact of adult mortality on the survivors are scarce for short-run impacts and even less available for long-run implications. Moreover, studies are often anecdotal and results for the general population are speculative. This project hopes to address many of these concerns in its assessment of the impact of adult mortality.
This project was funded by the Knowledge for Change Partnership Trust Fund at the World Bank and DANIDA
The full 13-year panel data set, the questionnaires and a basic information document for data users are now publicly available.
Go to the 1991-94 data download site
Go to the 2004 data download site
More information on the survey and the data can be found in the following two documents
User's Guide to the KHDS Datasets
KHDS Basic Information Document
Researchers using the data may benefit from the following additional constructed data sets:
Price, Consumption and Assets Aggregates (1991-2004)
GPS data: distance of KHDS communities to Rwanda border (from Javier Baez)
GPS data: distance of KHDS communities to Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda borders (from Monica Fisher)
GPS data: distance of KHDS communities to refugee camps (from Jean-Francois Maystadt)
