Analysis

Analysis

Open research

Open research is research that is openly accessible and reusable by others. We aim to develop the RAAB repository to support the open research agenda on research conduct, outputs and dissemination. Making these components of research open access improves transparency and reproducibility, stimulates new knowledge creation and helps minimise avoidable waste in research.

The global eye health community can benefit from open research and to support this we encourage all RAAB datasets to be deposited with the International Centre for Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for safekeeping and dissemination via the repository.

The chart on this page demonstrates the availability of anonymous participant level survey data from completed RAABs across the Global Burden of Disease super regions. It will automatically update when new data are added to the repository. Available and unavailable categories are disaggregated by the age of the data - availability of more recent data is important to support efforts to advance eye health within broader universal health coverage and sustainable development goal monitoring frameworks.

RAAB data format

Open access data includes historic versions of RAAB (RACSS, RAAB5 and RAAB6), each with minor differences in methodology. To facilitate cross-RAAB analyses, the variable names and response options from all historic RAAB datasets have been mapped to the terminology used in RAAB7.

Use the link below to access a codebook that explains each variable in the downloadable RAAB survey data and population data csv files and maps RAAB7 terminology to the variable names used in previous RAAB version datasets.

Download codebook

Select or deselect available or unavailable counts per region by clicking on the series listed on the right hand side of the chart.

Abbreviations: CE, EE, CA = Central Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, HI = High Income, LAC = Latin America & Caribbean, NAME = North Africa & Middle East, SA = South Asia, SEA, EA, O = Southeast Asia, East Asia & Oceania, SSA = Sub Saharan Africa