7,217 children aged five across 177 Brazilian municipalities were examined for untreated dental caries, with a prevalence of 48.2%. The data originates from the Brazilian Oral Health Survey (SBBrasil 2010) Project and includes individual-level survey responses and municipal-level contextual data. The study was authored by Thiago Machado Ardenghi.
Use Cases
- Modeling the association between municipal mean income and untreated dental caries prevalence.
- Analyzing racial disparities in oral health outcomes based on child ethnicity data.
- Investigating the effect of water fluoridation on dental decay rates across different regions.
- Conducting multilevel regression analysis linking individual socioeconomic status to health outcomes.
Strengths
- Data is from a nationally representative epidemiological survey (SBBrasil 2010).
- Includes 7,217 individual records linked to 177 municipal units.
- Integrates individual survey data with contextual municipal statistics like mean income and water fluoridation.
Limitations
- Row count for the underlying dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Brazilian Oral Health Survey (SBBrasil 2010) Project and Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística.
- Collection Method
- Epidemiological survey with clinical examinations and parent/guardian questionnaires, supplemented by official municipal statistics.
- Time Range
- 2010
- Geography
- Brazil, with specific focus on the North and Northeast regions.