Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
WBCA Colloquium
May 5, 2009
Goals
1) Identify meaningful and efficient indicators of
social connection in the Children’s Well Being and
Social Connection (CWSC) data
2) Manipulate the AHDSS database to represent
children’s social connections in light of the
analysis of the CWSC
3) Assess the explanatory power and
representativeness of the new social connections
database
Three Types of Social Connection
1) Household – addressed elsewhere (e.g. Madhavan
and Schatz)
2) Interhousehold kinship relationships
3) Extra-familial relationships (we will save these for
a rainy day)
Provisional kinship model
Grand
parents
Maternal Paternal
Aunties, Mother Father Aunties,
Uncles Uncles
Date Step
January 2009 Extraction of AHDSS data with
preliminary Migrant Reconciliation (MR)
Throughout 2009 Construction of Social Connections
Database using preliminary data
Second half 2009 Extended Migrant Reconciliation
2010 Preparation and analysis of social
connections database with full MR
TODAY Preliminary analysis of Father Status
Circumscribed kinship model
Grand
parents
Maternal Paternal
Aunties, Mother Father Aunties,
Uncles Uncles
Personal contact
Formal/informal support
100%
Dead
80%
Elsewhere
Agincourt Area
40%
Same Village
* - Informal financial support or formal child support order paid in past month
Any paternal support if father alive,
by father location and child sex
0%
0-3 4-7 8-11 12-15 16-17
Simplified mother’s location
1,610
2,084 7%
9% Mother same household,
non-migrant
Mother same household,
4,476 temporary migrant
18% Mother elsewhere
181
11%
579 Father same household,
36% 221 non-migrant
14% Father same household,
temporary migrant
Father elsewhere
Father dead
629
39%
Articulating to qualitative model of
functional kinship connections
What specific pathways can be measured?
What general relationships can be summarized (e.g.
we lose rich content but capture general pathway)
What patterns can be captured with modest
improvements to existing AHDSS?
Typesof relationships
Dimensions of functional connection
9,689
40% 12,084
50%
2,448
10%
Father’s household membership history
Current DSA Resident
Former DSA Resident
Never DSA Resident
2,834 3,699
12% 15%
17,400
73%
Biomarkers and social markers…
Sustained health and mortality like HIV/AIDS
necessitates a reordering of social connections, with
implications for social continuity (de Waal)
An impact evaluation of ART interventions could
and should address impacts not merely on the
AIDS-infected, but also on the AIDS-affected
Whatever we achieve through retrospective
manipulation, the Health, Demographic, and Social
Surveillance System (HDSSS) remains in sight