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African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) Microdata Portal

African Population and Health Research Center

HDB-0083

APHRC's microdata portal provides access to 134+ documented datasets from research studies conducted across African countries, particularly Kenya, with detailed metadata on study design, sampling procedures, and data dictionaries. The portal hosts data from the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) and numerous longitudinal studies on population, health, and education issues in sub-Saharan Africa.

Category

Open dataset

Access

Free registration

Region

Africa

Coverage

Multiple African countries, concentrated in Kenya; NUHDSS covers two Nairobi informal settlements (Korogocho, Viwandani)

Size

134+ datasets

Data types

population data, health indicators, education, household surveys, demographic surveillance

microdata repository demographic surveillance sub-Saharan Africa

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Record HDB-0083 · last verified 2026-08-05 · listed in Open datasets

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