HDSS-Dogs_SA_2012-2013

• Main Authors: Conan, Anne, Akerele, Oluyemisi, Simpson, Greg, Reininghaus, Bjorn, Van Rooyen, Jacques, Knobel, Darryn
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dryad Digital Repository 2015
• Subjects: health and demographic surveillance system; population ecology; demography; demographics; rabies; rabies virus; rabies control; dog; domestic dog; mortality rate; birth rate; migration rate; vaccination coverage; critical vaccination threshold; population growth rate; non-specific effects of vaccines; herd immunity; Hluvukani settlement S 24°39’; E 31°20’; Bushbuckridge Local Municipality; Mpumalanga Province; South Africa; Canis familiaris; Canis lupus familiaris; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vq58f/1; http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.vq58f/1

This dataset presents data from a Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Dogs (HDSS-Dogs) in Hluvukani settlement in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, from 1st January 2012 through 1st January 2014. Each row represents one residence episode for a dog in a household or ‘stand’ (a plot or parcel of land). Residence episodes within households begin with birth or in-migration (e.g. purchase or receipt of a dog), and terminate with death or out-migration (e.g. sale or gifting of dog to another household). Data collected are all owner-reported, collected by the study team during regular, repeat visits every 4-6 months (‘rounds’) to all households in the demographic surveillance area.