Focus Group Counts by Health Zone in the DRC

2021 data enumerates focus group discussions and participant counts across health zones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It contains a small, structured record of qualitative public health activities from that year. The dataset was authored by Ruth Kallay and published on figshare.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of focus group discussions (FGDs) across different health zones.
• Compare the number of participants per FGD across various regions using the parenthetical counts.
• Map qualitative research activity intensity by correlating the count of FGDs with specific geographic zones.

Strengths

• Clear temporal scope limited to activities in 2021.
• Provides dual metrics: count of focus groups and count of participants per group.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Very small dataset at only 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope and few rows.
• Contains only summary counts, lacking the actual qualitative content or transcripts from the discussions.
• Unknown row count and specific column structure beyond the described metrics.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Ruth Kallay.

Collection Method

Focus group discussions conducted within health zones.

Time Range

2021

Geography

Health zones within the Democratic Republic of the Congo.