GG-HDSS: Causes of Death by Age in Southwest Ethiopia, 2009-2016

2009-2016 data from the GG-HDSS site in Southwest Ethiopia shows the distribution of causes of death across different age groups. The dataset was authored by Desalegn Shiferaw and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It is a small dataset, stored in a 5.5 KB XLS file.

Use Cases

• Analyze age-specific mortality patterns based on the cause-of-death distribution.
• Study temporal trends in public health outcomes based on the 2009-2016 time range.
• Compare cause-of-death profiles across demographic groups based on the age-stratified data.

Strengths

• Data covers an 8-year period from 2009 to 2016.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• Specific geographic focus on the GG-HDSS site in Southwest Ethiopia.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 5.5 KB file size suggests a very limited scope of data.

Provenance

Source

Desalegn Shiferaw via figshare

Time Range

2009-2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 17:33:41; freshness should be verified.

Geography

GG-HDSS, Southwest Ethiopia