TY - JOUR AU - Bocquier, Philippe AU - Ginsburg, Carren AU - Herbst, Kobus AU - Sankoh, Osman AU - Collinson, Mark A. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/06/26 TI - A training manual for event history data management using Health and Demographic Surveillance System data JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 224 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - The objective of this research note is to introduce a training manual for event history data management. The manual provides a first comprehensive guide to longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) data management that allows for a step-by-step description of the process of structuring and preparing a dataset for the calculation of demographic rates and event history analysis. The research note provides some background information on the INDEPTH Network, and the iShare data repository and describes the need for a manual to guide users as to how to correctly handle HDSS datasets. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2541-9 DO - 10.1186/s13104-017-2541-9 ID - Bocquier2017 ER -