lisaphall/WHS-harmonisation-pipeline

Reproducible R pipeline for harmonising restricted-access WHO World Health Survey (WHS) micro-data across 16 African countries (2002–2004). # WHS Harmonisation Pipeline: Reproducible R Workflow for Restricted-Access WHO World Health Survey Microdata ## Project Summary This project provides an open and reproducible R pipeline for harmonising restricted-access WHO World Health Survey (WHS) microdata across 16 countries. The surveys were conducted between 2002 and 2004. The pipeline merges household, respondent, insurance, health occupation, birth history, sibling survivorship, and survey weight files into an analysis-ready dataset. The raw WHO micro-data are not included and cannot be redistributed. Researchers must request access directly from WHO and run the pipeline locally using their authorised copies of the data. ## Countries Covered Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. All surveys were fielded between October 2002 and June 2004. Most countries were surveyed in 2003; Kenya in 2004; Burkina Faso, Malawi, and South Africa span 2002–2003. Some raw WHO file names and internal country codes may use historical or shortened names, such as `Swaziland` and `Congo`. These are kept where needed for reproducibility with the original WHS filenames, but public-facing documentation should use the current or clearer country names: Eswatini and Republic of the Congo. ## Data Sources Required The pipeline expects the following restricted WHO files in the local raw data folder: - `WHS-[Country]_F2.dta`: household questionnaire - `WHS-[Country]_F3.dta`: household insurance roster - `WHS-[Country]_F4.dta`: health occupation roster - `WHS-[Country]_F5.dta`: individual respondent questionnaire - `WHS-[Country]_F6.dta`: birth history module - `WHS-[Country]_F7.dta`: sibling survivorship module - `[Country]-ID.dta`: WHO identification and survey weight file These files are restricted and are not part of this open deposit. ## What The Pipeline Does The R script: - standardises coun …