Data for the paper on "Early school failure predicts teenage pregnancy and marriage: a large population-based cohort study in Northern Malawi"

Sunny, B; Glynn, JR; Crampin, AC and Kanjala, C (2018). Data for the paper on "Early school failure predicts teenage pregnancy and marriage: a large population-based cohort study in Northern Malawi". [Dataset]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 10.17037/DATA.285.
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THIS DATASET IS EMBARGOED UNTIL MAY 31 2018. The data originate from a demographic surveillance site (DSS) in Karonga district in northern Malawi covering a population of >35,000 individuals from approx. 8000 households since 2002. This is run by MEIRU (Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit). Annual individual and household-level socio-demographic and schooling data were combined with data on participants’ sexual behaviour, including age at sexual debut, pregnancy and marriage to examine the relationship between school progression (drop-out and age-for-grade) and sexual debut, pregnancy and marriage.

Keywords

School progression; School performance; Sexual debut; Pregnancy; Marriage; Malawi; Sub-Saharan Africa

Item Type Dataset
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Dataset
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Description of data capture Surveys were administered by field staff using paper questionnaires in the local language (Chitumbuka). Data collection was supervised and managed on site by a team of scientists, field enumerators and data entry personnel. Data were then double-entered into MS Access by the data entry office for further analysis. To examine the relationship between school progression and sexual debut, pregnancy and marriage, data was combined from (1) individual-level surveys (including schooling histories), (2) household-level socio-economic surveys (data on household assets and consumption) and (3) sexual behaviour data, including the approximate timing of sexual debut, pregnancy and marriage. Participant IDs are used to link individuals within and across households over time. Further details on the methods used for data capture and analyses have been elaborated in the methods section of the paper.
Capture method Questionnaire: Fixed form - Paper
Collection Period
From
To
2007
2016
Date 30 April 2018
Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)
North Latitude
East Longitude
South Latitude
West Longitude
-9.91591
33.9572
-9.98794
33.9155
Language(s) of written materials English
Creator(s) Sunny, B; Glynn, JR; Crampin, AC and Kanjala, C
LSHTM Faculty/Department Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (-2023)
Participating Institutions London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU)
Funders
Project
Funder
Grant Number
Funder URI
Understanding the causes of school drop-out in Malawi
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust (079828/Z/06/C; 098610/Z/12/Z); UK Economic and Social Research Council (ES/L013967/1)
UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED
Economic & Social Research Council
UNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIED
Date Deposited 25 Apr 2018 10:21
Last Modified 28 Sep 2018 21:20
Publisher London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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