lopmanlab/globalmix-mozambique-aim1

This contains data from the Mozambique arm of GlobalMix, and scripts that will be used to clean and analyze the data, and prepare output. # Comprehensively profiling social contact patterns in Mozambique: the GlobalMix project Click on this link to access the full text publication *Contributors: Moses C. Kiti 1 , Holin Chen 1 , Sara Kim 1 * Moses C. Kiti 1,a , Charfudin Sacoor 2,a , Obianuju G. Aguolu 3 , Alana Zelaya 1 , Holin Chen 1 , Sara S. Kim 1 , Nilzio Cavele 2 , Edgar Jamisse 2 , Corssino Tchavana 2 , Americo Jose 4 , Ivalda Macicame 5 , Orvalho Joaquim 2 , Noureen Ahmed 6 , Carol Y. Liu 1 , Inci Yildirim 3 , Kristin Nelson 1 , Samuel M. Jenness 1 , Herberth Maldonado 7 , Momin Kazi 8 , Rajan Srinivasan 9 , Venkata R. Mohan 9 , Alessia Melegaro 10 , Fauzia Malik 6 , Azucena Bardaji 11 , Saad B. Omer 6,b , Ben Lopman 1,b *Affiliation* 1 Emory University, USA 2 Manhiça Health and Research Centre (CISM), Mozambique 3 Yale University, USA 4 Polana-Caniço Health and Research Centre (CISPOC), Mozambique 5 National Institute of Health, Mozambique 6 University of Texas SouthWestern Medical College, USA 7 Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala 8 Aga Khan University, Pakistan 9 Christian Medical College, India 10 Bocconi University, Italy 11 ISGlobal, Spain a These first authors contributed equally to this article. b These authors were co-principal investigators *Correspondence to: blopman.emory.edu* ## Abstract There are few sources of empirical social contact data from resource-poor settings. To alleviate this, we recruited 1363 participants from rural and urban areas of Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting the age, sex and relation to the contact. Participants reported a mean of 8.3 (95% CI 8.0–8.6) contacts per person. The mean contact rates were higher in the rural compared to urban site (9.8 vs 6.8, p<0.01), respectively. Using mathematical models, we report higher vaccine effects (VE) in the rural site when comparing empirical to synthetic contact matrices (32% vs 29%, respectively), and lower corresponding VE in urban site (32% vs 35%). These effects wer …