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Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS)

MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Unit, University of Witwatersrand

HDB-0205

A longitudinal health and demographic surveillance system established in 1992 covering 120,000 people across 31 villages in rural northeast South Africa, collecting detailed health, mortality, migration and socioeconomic data. The platform supports observational studies, interventional research, health systems evaluation, and policy assessments, with individual-level data accessible through the data portal at data.agincourt.co.za.

Category

Open dataset

Access

By application

Region

Africa — South Africa

Coverage

120,000 people in 31 villages, longitudinal since 1992

Size

120,000 individuals

Data types

mortality, morbidity, socioeconomic, demographic, clinic records, life course

surveillance longitudinal rural health transitions South Africa

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Record HDB-0205 · last verified 2026-08-06 · listed in Open datasets

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