{"doc_desc":{"title":"OVC v1.1","idno":"APHRC-OVC-2007-1.1","producers":[{"name":"African Population & Health Research Center","abbreviation":"APHRC","affiliation":"APHRC","role":"Documentation of the Study"}],"prod_date":"2013-10-15","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.1"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"APHRC-OVC-2007-1.1","title":"The Plight of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nairobi Urban Slums in the Face of HIV\/AIDS","alt_title":"OVC","translated_title":"ENGLISH"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"African Population & Health Research Center","affiliation":"APHRC"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Residents of Korogocho and Viwandani Slums","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Study Subjects"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Elizabeth Kimani","affiliation":"African Population and Health Research Center ","role":""},{"name":"Nyovani Madise","affiliation":"African Population and Health Research Center ","role":""},{"name":"Adama Konseiga","affiliation":"African Population and Health Research Center ","role":""}],"copyright":"\u00a9 APHRC, 2013","prod_date":"2007-02-28","funding_agencies":[{"name":"WORLD BANK","abbreviation":"","role":"FUNDER"}],"grant_no":"7139065"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Head, Statistics and Survey Unit","affiliation":"African Population & Health Research Center","email":"datarequests@aphrc.org","uri":"www.aphrc.org"}]},"version_statement":{"version_notes":"Version 1.1, November 2014. Anonymized with DOI and Recommended Citation added."},"holdings":[{"text":"","location":"","callno":"","uri":"doi:11239\/176-2007-003-1.1"}],"study_info":{"abstract":"There are a range of questions that had not been unanswered regarding interventions to address the prevalence and vulnerability of OVCs in African countries including Kenya. Questions have been raised as to whether interventions should focus specifically on OVCs, or whether they should address poverty and vulnerability in general. Similarly, the choice of the type of intervention, be it cash transfers, education-enhancing measures, or health care is also very important to ensure that scarce resources are utilized in a most effective manner. \n\nThis project aimed to provide evidence to inform current and future initiatives for OVCs in poor urban areas. Data from the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) and an additional module to assess the psychosocial wellbeing of OVCs were used, a work program comprising the identification of qualifying beneficiaries and assessment of their economic welfare as well as of the targeting methods was carried out. \n\nThe specific objectives of the project were to: conduct regression analyses to explain child welfare indicators (including the psycho-social wellbeing of OVC, a research area that had been untouched) and applied a reliable and valid method of proxy means testing (PMT) to identify households for interventions based on their income or other related socio-economic status indicator.","time_periods":[{"start":"2007-03-28","end":"2007-05-14","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2007-02-20","end":"2007-04-20","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"KENYA","abbreviation":"KEN"}],"geog_coverage":"Two informal settlements, Korogocho and Viwandani, in Nairobi City (the capital city) of Kenya.","analysis_unit":"The unit of analysis is the child","universe":"The survey covered  children aged 6-14 years and resident in the APHRC demographic surveillance area (DSA) were eligible for participation in the study.","notes":"The scope of the psycho-social wellbeing survey includes:\n\nCHILD: Background characteristics, behavoir, abuse, fears, shelter and care, physical health, childs attitude towards school and anthropomentric measurements.\n\nCHILDS CAREGIVER:Background, Respondent details, Schooling details, health status and health seeking behaviour, food intake, involvement in income generating activity, household relationships,","study_scope":"The scope of the psycho-social wellbeing survey includes:\n\nCHILD: Background characteristics, behavoir, abuse, fears, shelter and care, physical health, childs attitude towards school and anthropomentric measurements.\n\nCHILDS CAREGIVER:Background, Respondent details, Schooling details, health status and health seeking behaviour, food intake, involvement in income generating activity, household relationships,"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"All children 6-14 years from the NUHDSS database, a total of 9,029; 1218 orphans and 7811 non-orphans have been targeted","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"The questionnaires used were structured questionnaires named Child questionnaire and Caregiver , The questionnaires were developed in English and were translated into Kiswahili. The questionnaires included the following Sections:\n\n\n\nCHILD: Background, Introduction, Freedon from exploitation, Behavour, Abuse, Fears, Shelter and care, Physical health, Childs attitude towards school, Anthropometric measurements.\n\n\n\nCAREGIVER: Background, Schooling details, Health status and seeking behaviour, Food intake, Involvement in income generating activities, Household relationships\n\n\n\nNB: All questionnaires and modules are provided as external resources","act_min":"The field supervisors and team leaders participated in data collection in addition to the supervisory role as stipulated in the field worker's manual.\n\nAdditional tasks included quality control through spot checks of interviews and scripts, data cleaning, work assignments, follow-up cases, community liaison.\n\nThe team also consisted of editors, who were primarily invloved in the data cleaning.\n\nThe field co-ordinator, research officer and\/or project managers visited the field and field teams regularly to monitor and review progress and support field operations","weight":"Not weighted","cleaning_operations":"Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:\n\na) Office editing and coding\n\nb) During data entry\n\nc) Structure checking and completeness\n\nd) Secondary editing","method_notes":"Data entry was performed manually at APHRC's headquarters on desktop computers and was done using an in-house built system with a Microsoft Visual Basic and MS SQL softwares. \n\n\n\nData were processed the following steps:\n\n\n\n1) Questionnaire reception\n\n2) Office editing and coding\n\n3) Data entry\n\n4) Structure and completeness checking\n\n7) Back up of raw data\n\n8) Export to STATA 10 in 12 files\n\n9) Recoding of variables needed for analysis\n\n10) Structural checking of STATA 12 files\n\n11) Data quality tabulations\n\n12) Production of analysis tabulations"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"There were 9,029 children aged 6-14 years, including 1,218 orphans, 7,609 non-orphans and 202 with unknown status. For the psychosocial survey a  random sample of 2,402; 1,202 of these orphans and 1,202 non-orphans was selected from the NUHDSS data"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"African Population and Health Research Center","affiliation":"APHRC","email":"info@aphrc.org","uri":"www.aphrc.org"}],"cit_req":"African Population and Health Research Center, The Plight of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nairobi Urban Slums in the Face of HIV\/AIDS, October 2013. APHRC, Nairobi - Kenya. doi:11239\/176-2007-003-1.1","conditions":"DATA ACCESS CONDITIONS\n\nAll non-APHRC staff seeking to use data generated at the Center must obtain written approval to use the data from the Director of Research. This form is developed to assess applications for data use and facilitate responsible sharing of data with external partners\/collaborators\/researchers. By entering into this agreement, the undersigned agrees to use these data only for the purpose for which they were obtained and to abide by the conditions outlined below:\n\n1.\tData Ownership: The data remain the property of APHRC; any unauthorized reproduction and sharing of the data is strictly prohibited. The user will, therefore, not release nor permit others to use or release the data to any other person without the written authorization from the Center.\n\n2.\tPurpose: The provided data must be used for the purpose specified in the Data Request Form; any other use not specified in the form must receive additional or separate authorization.\n\n3.\tRespondent Identifiers: The Center is committed to protecting the identity of the respondents who provide information in its research. All analytical data sets (both qualitative and quantitative) released by the Data Unit MUST are stripped of respondent identifiers to protect the identity of the respondents. By accepting to use APHRC data, the user is pledging that he\/she will not, under any circumstance, regenerate the identifiers or permit others to use the data to learn the identity of any individual, household or community included in any data set.\n\n4.\tConfidentiality pledge: The user will not use nor permit others to use the data to report any information in the data sets that could identify, directly or by inference, individuals or households.\n\n5.\tReporting of errors or inconsistencies: The user will promptly notify the Head of the Statistics and Survey Unit any errors discovered in the data as soon as the errors are discovered.\n\n6.\tPublications resulting from APHRC data: The Center requires external collaborators to work with APHRC staff on all publications resulting from its data. In order to facilitate this, lead authors should send a detailed concept note of the paper (including the background, rationale, data, analytical methods, and preliminary findings) to the Principle Investigator (or Theme Leader) for the project (with a copy to the Director of Research), who will circulate the abstract to concerned researchers for possible expression of interest in participating in the publication as co-authors. Any exception to the involvement of APHRC staff should be approved by the Director of Research, APHRC.\n\n7.\tSecurity: The user will take responsibility for the security of the data by ensuring that the data are used and stored in a secure environment where access is password protected. This will ensure that non-authorized people should not have access to the data.\n\n8.\tLoss of privilege to use data: In the event that APHRC determines that the data user is in violation of the conditions for using the data, or if the user wishes to cancel this agreement, the user will destroy the data files provided to him\/her. APHRC retains the right to revoke this agreement or informs publishers to withhold publication of any work based wholly or in part on its data if the conditions for using the data are violated.\n\n9.\tAcknowledgement: Any work\/reports from this data must acknowledge APHRC as the source of these data. For example, the suggested acknowledgement for NUHDSS data is: \n\n\u201cThis research uses livelihoods data collected under the longitudinal Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) since 2006. The NUHDSS is carried out by the African Population and Health Research Center in two slums settlements (Korogocho and Viwandani) in Nairobi City.\u201d\n\nAdditionally all funders, the study communities that provided the data, and staff who collected and analyzed or processed the data should be acknowledged.\n\n10.\tDeposit of Reports\/Papers: The user should submit electronic and paper copies of all publications generated using APHRC data to the Policy Engagement and Communications Department, with copies to the Director of Research.\n\n11.\tChange of contact details: The user will promptly inform the Director of Research of any change in your personal details as contained on this data request form.","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that APHRC and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}}}