The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System

Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS) is a population framework linked real-time with hospital morbidity surveillance and longitudinal community-based cohort studies. It covers an area of 891km² and a resident population of 260,000 (March 2011). It aims at defining rates of mortality, fertility and migration over time, evaluating the impact of health interventions of national public health importance, as well as, providing data for epidemiological studies of diseases of local importance.

The KHDSS became a full member of the INDEPTH Network of demographic surveillance sites in 2005.

Basic demographic data, ethnicity, household structure and location are collected for new structures/residents and updated for existing structures/residents every 3-4 months. 

Tools and Data Access

Anonymous individual record level data are available to potential investigators on a collaborative basis, subject to ethical committee review, if appropriate. Proposals for new analyses or data use, including an analysis plan, need to be specified in a data request form which is considered and approved by the KHDSS management committee.

Data Request Form click here                                                                                              Census Tools

Steps 

1. Download form
2. Fill it out
3. email to: hdss_datakilifi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org 

Data Collection Process Flow click here

KHDSS Anniversary Brochure