Ballabgarh Contact Mixing Dataset

This data set contains contact diary data with 24 hour recall period from respondents from villages of Ballabgarh collected in three waves from October 2015 to October 2016.
Respondents completed a structured questionnaire regarding their contacts in the past 24 hours during a face-to-face interview. A caregiver responded on behalf of children under 6 years of age, while children aged 6-10 responded in the presence of a caregiver. An interviewer of the same gender interviewed all respondents aged 11-18 years. A contact was defined as a face-to-face conversation within a distance of three feet, which may or may not have involved a physical touch. Respondents were asked about the age and sex of their contacts, the place of contact (home, school, work, transport, or other), and whether the contacts were conversational or physical. In addition, the respondents were provided the option for reporting simultaneous encounters with more than one individual encounters with multiple individuals as "group" contacts, including the group size, duration of encounter, and the age range of individuals in the group. Details such as the age and gender of each individual in the group were not recorded. Respondents were interviewed three times in a period of 13 months. The data were gathered over three phases: October 2015 - February 2016 (winter); March - June 2016 (summer); and July - October 2016 (monsoon) and henceforth we refer to the three phases as seasons.
Data dictionary, all contacts data and aggregated data are provided as .csv files