General Population Cohort (GPC)


SUMMARY OF ROUND 15 (Nov 2003 – Sept 2004): population enumeration and survey participation
Round (Period) Items Notes
02 Jan 2007 to 05 Dec 2008 Protocol Title
Objectives in summary
Summary of the house-to-house Census
Characteristic Population(Male + Female) Females Males
Start and end date 02 Jan 2007 to 05 Dec 2008
#Households at end of round 675
#Residents present at round between 02 Jan 2012 – 29Jan2013 18,121 9,326 (51.5%) 8,795 (48.5%)
#New births 505 259 (51.3%) 246 (48.7%)
#In-migrants 2,452 1,338 (54.6%) 1,114 (45.4%)
#Out-migrants 1,669 942 (56.4%) 727 (43.6%)
#Deaths 153 66 (43.1%) 87 (56.9%)
Age range (in years) 0 – 107 0 – 107 0 – 103
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