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.
whowho2
population
who
A data frame with 7,240 rows and 60 columns:
Country name
2 & 3 letter ISO country codes
Year
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 name
Year
Population