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A research dataset combining Demographic and Health Survey data on early childhood development with retrospective NASA temperature exposure for 19,407 children aged 24–59 months. The study investigates associations between non-optimal ambient temperature and developmental delay across Jordan, Kenya, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Tanzania. The dataset was authored by Miriam Sophia Meier and last updated on 2026-05-01.

Use Cases

• Modeling exposure–lag–response associations between temperature and developmental outcomes based on distributed lag non-linear models mentioned in the description.
• Conducting subgroup analyses for specific age ranges or neural domains based on the study's methodology.
• Investigating geographic variation in climate-health impacts across the five specified low- and middle-income countries.
• Adjusting for confounding factors like stunting in climate-health analyses as described in the methods.

Strengths

• Includes data for 19,407 individual children, providing a substantial sample size.
• Combines survey data from Demographic and Health Surveys with retrospective NASA temperature exposure data.
• Covers five distinct low- and middle-income countries (Jordan, Kenya, Mozambique, the Philippines, Tanzania), enabling cross-country comparison.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary file format is DOCX, which may require conversion for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Demographic and Health Surveys and NASA temperature data.

Collection Method

Case–control design combining survey and temperature exposure data.

Time Range

Retrospective temperature exposure; specific years not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 13:06:17; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jordan, Kenya, Mozambique, the Philippines, Tanzania.