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Autism-Screening-Adult-Data Description

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Abstract: Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopment condition associated with significant

healthcare costs, and early diagnosis can significantly reduce these. Unfortunately, waiting times for an ASD
diagnosis are lengthy and procedures are not cost effective. The economic impact of autism and the increase in
the number of ASD cases across the world reveals an urgent need for the development of easily implemented and
effective screening methods. Therefore, a time-efficient and accessible ASD screening is imminent to help health
professionals and inform individuals whether they should pursue formal clinical diagnosis. The rapid growth in
the number of ASD cases worldwide necessitates datasets related to behaviour traits. However, such datasets are
rare making it difficult to perform thorough analyses to improve the efficiency, sensitivity, specificity and
predictive accuracy of the ASD screening process. Presently, very limited autism datasets associated with clinical
or screening are available and most of them are genetic in nature. Hence, we propose a new dataset related to
autism screening of adults that contained 20 features to be utilised for further analysis especially in determining
influential autistic traits and improving the classification of ASD cases. In this dataset, we record ten behavioural
features (AQ-10-Adult) plus ten individuals characteristics that have proved to be effective in detecting the ASD
cases from controls in behaviour science.

Attribute Information:
Table 1: Features and their descriptions
Attribute Type Description
Age Number Age in years
Gender String Male or Female
Ethnicity String List of common ethnicities in text format
Born with jaundice Boolean (yes or no) Whether the case was born with jaundice
Family member with PDD Boolean (yes or no) Whether any immediate family member has a PDD
Who is completing the test String Parent, self, caregiver, medical staff, clinician ,etc.
Country of residence String List of countries in text format
Used the screening app before Boolean (yes or no) Whether the user has used a screening app
Screening Method Type Integer (0,1,2,3) The type of screening methods chosen based on age category
(0=toddler, 1=child, 2= adolescent, 3= adult)
Question 1 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 2 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 3 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 4 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 5 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 6 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 7 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 8 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 9 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Question 10 Answer Binary (0, 1) The answer code of the question based on the screening
method used
Screening Score Integer The final score obtained based on the scoring algorithm of the
screening method used. This was computed in an automated
manner

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