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:

• the method of diagnosis (rel = relapse, sn = negative pulmonary smear, sp = positive pulmonary smear, ep = extrapulmonary),

• gender (f = female, m = male), and

• age group (014 = 0-14 yrs of age, 1524 = 15-24, 2534 = 25-34, 3544 = 35-44 years of age, 4554 = 45-54, 5564 = 55-64, 65 = 65 years or older).

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