Canine Rabies Burden in Chilga District, Ethiopia, 2017-2019

1576.5 disability-adjusted life years per 100,000 population were estimated as the annual public health burden of canine rabies in this study. The research by Tewodros Birhan Engida, published on figshare, analyzes retrospective household survey data from 768 households in Northwest Ethiopia collected between September 2017 and September 2019. It estimates an annual human rabies death rate of 37 per 100,000 and an economic burden of 887.3 Ethiopian Birr per household over two years.

Use Cases

• Modeling the economic burden of zoonotic diseases based on aggregated cost data for humans and livestock.
• Estimating public health impact using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) based on survey-derived mortality and morbidity.
• Analyzing the distribution of rabies burden between livestock and human populations based on the described cost contributions.
• Supporting dog vaccination intervention planning based on district-level burden estimates.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a structured survey of 768 households using multistage cluster sampling.
• Provides specific quantitative estimates with 95% confidence intervals for death rates, DALYs, and economic burden.
• Covers a defined two-year period from September 2017 to September 2019 in a specific geographic district.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.
• The dataset's 130.9 KB size suggests a limited scope, likely containing aggregated results rather than raw household-level records.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Tewodros Birhan Engida.

Collection Method

Retrospective household survey using multistage cluster sampling.

Time Range

September 2017 to September 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 17:50:30; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chilga district, Northwest Ethiopia.