General Population Cohort (GPC)


SUMMARY OF ROUND 22 (2009-2010): population enumeration and survey participation
Round (Period) Items Notes
18 Nov 2009 to 17 Seo 2010 Protocol Title
Objectives in summary
Summary of the house-to-house Census
Characteristic Population(Male + Female) Females Males
Start and end date 18 NOV 2009 to 17 SEP 2010
#Households at end of round 725
#Residents present at round between 02 Jan 2012 – 29Jan2013 18,122 9,369 (51.7%) 8,753(48.3%)
#New births 505 259 (51.3%) 246 (48.7%)
#In-migrants 2,740 1,455 (53.1%) 1,285 (46.9%)
#Out-migrants 1,632 898 (55.0%) 734 (44.9%)
#Deaths 142 67 (47.2%) 75 (52.8%)
Age range (in years) 0 – 105 0 – 100 0 – 105
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 14 DEC 2009 to 27 OCT 2010
Eligibility criteria GPC Residents ≥13 years ≥13 years
#Eligible for medical survey*
#Households participating (%) 643/725 (88.7%)
#participants 7,343 4,054 (55.2%) 3,289 (44.8%)
Age range (in years) 13 - 99 13 - 99 13 - 98
HIV prevalence (95% CI) 8.5% 9.2% 7.4%
Median age at first sex (IQR) 17 (16 , 18) 17 (15 ,18) 18 (16 , 20)
Median number of sexual partners in the last 12 months (IQR) 1 (1 - 1) 1 (1,1) 1 (1,2)
Median number of lifetime sexual partners (IQR) 3 (2,5) 2 (1,3) 5 (3,10)
Total Depression Score (Hopkins symptom checklist scale) Expected range (0- 60 ) Median score (IQR) 15 ( 15,17) 15(15,17) 15 (14,16)
Alcohol users (AUDIT ) n=1,414 111 (7.8%) 97 (11.5%) 14 (2.4%)
Hepatitis C 12(0.2%) 4(0.1%) 8(0.3%)
Summary of child medical survey
Characteristic Population(Male + Female) Females Males
Eligibility criteria GPC Residents ≤12 years ≤12 years
#Households participating (%) 502
#participants 2,226 1,126 (50.6%) 1,100 (49.4%)
HIV positive (95% CI) 31/1843 (1.7%) 15 /937 (1.6%) 16 /906 (1.8%)
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