Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi

23 March 2007

journal article
Published by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Demographic Research

Vol. 16, 219-248
https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2007.16.8

Abstract

This paper describes and evaluates the first demographic surveillance system (DSS) in Malawi, covering a rural population of 30,000. Unlike others, the Karonga DSS relies on trained village informants using formatted registers for the primary notificat

Keywords

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
CENSUS
POPULATION
DATA COLLECTION
MIGRATION
RURAL AREAS
DATA QUALITY
DEMOGRAPHY
POPULATION DYNAMICS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
POPULATION STATISTICS
EVALUATION