General Population Cohort (GPC)


SUMMARY OF ROUND 7 (OCT 1995-NOV 1996): population enumeration and survey participation
Round (Period) Items Notes
Oct 1995 - Oct 1996 Protocol Title Population dynamics of HIV-1 transmission in the General Population Cohort in rural Uganda
Objectives in summary
  • To assess the health status and common medical conditions among adults, including chronic symptoms, family planning use, and HIV risk
Summary of the house-to-house Census
Characteristic Population(Male + Female) Females Males
Start and end date Oct 1996 - Oct 1997
#Households at end of round 352
#Residents by the end of the round 11,032 5,512 (50.0%) 5,520 (50.0%)
#Residents during the round 10,131 5,029 (49.6%) 5,102 (50.4%)
#New births 322 158 (49.1%) 164 (50.9%)
#In-migrants 1,767 824 (46.6%) 943 (53.4%)
#Out-migrants 940 437 (46.5%) 503 (53.5%)
#Deaths 130 64 (49.2%) 66 (50.8%)
Age range (in years) 0-96 0-96 0-93
Figure 1: Overall population pyramid (age-sex distribution, counts and percent)
Summary of the adult medical survey
Characteristic Population(Male + Female) Females Males
Start and end date 02 Jan 2007 to 25 Oct 2008
Eligibility criteria GPC Residents ≥13 years ≥13 years
#Eligible for medical survey*
#Households (participation % - % of all HHs with eligible participants that attended medical survey) 611
#participants (participation % - % of all eligible participants) 6,223 3,578 (57.5%) 2,645 (42.5%)
Age range (in years) 13 - 98 13 - 91 13 - 98
HIV prevalence (95% CI) n=4,789 160 (3.3%) 113 (4.1%) 47 (2.3%)
Summary of the child medical survey
Characteristic Population(Male + Female) Females Males
Start and end date
Eligibility criteria <13 years old
#Households (HHs) with eligible participants that attended medical survey 520
# of participants that attended the medical survey 5,660 2,805 (49.6%) 2,855 (50.4%)
Age range (in years) 0 - 12 0 - 12 0 - 12
HIV prevalence (95% CI) 24 (0.5%) 11(0.5%) 13 (0.5 %)
How to request for data

Meta data for the GPC data can be accessed using the Persistent identifier https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00003702