The Household Registration System

James Phillips, Bruce MacLeod and Brian Pence
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James Phillips: Columbia University
Bruce MacLeod: University of Southern Maine
Brian Pence: Population Council

Demographic Research, 2000, vol. 2, issue 6

Abstract: Although longitudinal experimental community health research is crucial to testing hypotheses about the demographic impact of health technologies, longitudinal demographic research field stations are rare, owing to the complexity and high cost of developing requisite computer software systems. This paper describes the Household Registration System (HRS), a software package that has been used for the rapid development of eleven surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Features of the HRS automate software generation for a family of surveillance applications, obviating the need for new and complex computer software systems for each new longitudinal demographic study.

Keywords: demographic surveillance; automated software generation; longitudinal survival studies; longitudinal community health research; experimental trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2000.2.6

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