Sickle Cell Disorder Burden by Age and Sex in Sierra Leone, 2023

Monalisa M. J. Faulkner estimated the age and sex distribution of sickle cell disorders burden in Sierra Leone for 2023. The data uses non-overlapping age groups, with the 5-to-19-year and 20-and-older groups derived by subtraction. Male-to-female ratios are presented with approximate 95% uncertainty intervals estimated by the delta method.

Use Cases

• Modeling disease burden distribution across age groups based on the described non-overlapping age categories.
• Analyzing sex disparities in sickle cell disorder prevalence based on the reported male-to-female ratios.
• Estimating uncertainty in demographic health metrics based on the provided 95% uncertainty intervals.

Strengths

• Dataset provides specific uncertainty metrics (approximate 95% UIs) for the male-to-female ratios.
• Focuses on a single country and year (Sierra Leone, 2023), offering a clear geographic and temporal snapshot.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (9.5 KB), indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Monalisa M. J. Faulkner via figshare

Collection Method

Derived estimates using non-overlapping age groups and subtraction methods.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 17:22:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sierra Leone