whoR Documentation

World Health Organization TB data

Description

A subset of data from the World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis Report, and accompanying global populations. who uses the original codes from the World Health Organization. The column names for columns 5 through 60 are made by combining new_ with:

who2 is a lightly modified version that makes teaching the basics easier by tweaking the variables to be slightly more consistent and dropping iso2 and iso3. newrel is replaced by new_rel, and a ⁠_⁠ is added after the gender.

Usage

who

who2

population

Format

who

A data frame with 7,240 rows and 60 columns:

country

Country name

iso2, iso3

2 & 3 letter ISO country codes

year

Year

new_sp_m014 - new_rel_f65

Counts of new TB cases recorded by group. Column names encode three variables that describe the group.

who2

A data frame with 7,240 rows and 58 columns.

population

A data frame with 4,060 rows and three columns:

country

Country name

year

Year

population

Population

Source

https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/data