TY  - JOUR
A1  - Madhavan, Sangeetha
A1  - Collinson, Mark
A1  - Townsend, Nicholas W.
A1  - Kahn, Kathleen
A1  - Tollman, Stephen
T1  - The implications of long term community involvement for the production and circulation of population knowledge
Y1  - 2007/11/27
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 369
EP  - 388
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.13
VL  - 17
IS  - 13
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/13/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/13/17-13.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/13/17-13.pdf
N2  - Demographic surveillance systems (DSS) depend on community acceptance and involvement to produce high quality longitudinal data.  Ensuring community support also exposes power relations usually concealed in the research process.  We discuss the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa to argue that: 1) long-term presence and community involvement contribute to high response rates and data quality, 2) to maintain community support the project must demonstrate its usefulness, 3) reporting to community members provides valuable checks on the local relevance and comprehension of questions, and 4) community opinion can modify both wording and content of research questions.

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