Information was disaggregated for place of residence (rural, urban) and ethnicity (indigenous, non-indigenous), in order to be able to document differences.
All information was disaggregated by gender and the main variables used in the statistical analysis are presented in Additional file 1: Table S2 (statistical annex).
In addition to those criteria already extracted in phase 1, we closely followed guidelines on economic evaluations and selected additional key aspects according to which the study-specific information was disaggregated [ 5, 6].
Here, data was disaggregated to provide information on health-seeking behaviour according to location, age, ethnicity, socio-economic status, etc.
Additionally, DHS and MICS surveys from conflict-affected countries were reviewed to determine if data were disaggregated for the portion of the population that was internally displaced and found that few countries had that information available.
Necessary daily meteorological and atmospheric data were disaggregated from mean monthly WorldClim datasets (1960 to 1990, 1,000 × 1,000 m: WorldClim 2013, Hijmans et al. 2005) combined with daily information from selected weather stations for one particular year (2009).
Where available, data is disaggregated down to island level.
However, even when data are disaggregated by sex, they are rarely also disaggregated by urban and rural locations.
Feeding data were disaggregated by season based on farmer recall.
Data were not disaggregated between male identified MSM, and transgenders, but was disaggregated by men reporting transactional sex and those not.
Similarly, the labor supply was disaggregated into nine occupation groups.
