population

The dataset contains results from survey aimed to understand community knowledge and perception of participants in Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya. Topic areas explored in the survey include: the awareness and prevention of coronavirus, concerns over coronavirus, and information and misinformation on coronavirus.

non-collection specific

(Complex) Released

XLSX

Country

First-order administrative division

Federal Republic of Nigeria

Republic of South Africa

Republic of Kenya

English

CC BY 4.0

Mobile Accord, Inc. (GeoPoll)

Community Knowledge and Perceptions of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sub-Saharan Africa

A census that is the specific outcome of a population demographic survey.

population demographic census

A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some gender.

gender identity information content entity

age-stratified

A census of infectious disease control strategies put into place to reduce infection acquisitions that are part of an infection in an ecosystem.

control strategy census

Counts of cases, deaths, etc. Often includes multiple types of counts as not compatible with more specific labels. Information about diagnostic tests, results, including serology tests, PCR, and other tests. Can include various methods of estimation, including the COVID-19 Forecast and Scenario Hubs.

case counts

Includes social, economic, also mental health impact.

socio-economic impact

Information about media, coverage about a topic.

media

Datasets discussing outbreaks on social media sites.

social media

Actions of groups of people in response to outbreaks.

behavior

A data set that is about one or more potentially infectious contact processes in a population of host organisms.

potentially infectious contact data set

Rates of compliance with policies/interventions including mask wearing, facility closures, large events, etc.

policy adherence

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder.

infectious disease

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.

Identifier	URL:https://data.humdata.org/dataset/coronavirus-in-sub-saharan-africa
Type	data set
Biological Scale	population
Collection End Date	2020/03/18
Language	English
Topics	behavior policy adherence potentially infectious contact data set case counts control strategy census disease infectious disease COVID-19 host organism Homo sapiens media social media pathogen Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 population demographic census age-stratified gender identity information content entity socio-economic impact
Geographical Scope	Federal Republic of Nigeria, Republic of South Africa, Republic of Kenya
Geographical Resolution	Country, First-order administrative division
Start Date	2020/03/10
End Date	2020/03/13
Version	unspecified
Accessible For Free	TRUE
License	CC BY 4.0
Rights	unspecified
HTTP Status Code	202
HTTP Checked On	2025/06/16