Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
46 lines (35 loc) · 2.99 KB

nytimes-excess-deaths.md

File metadata and controls

46 lines (35 loc) · 2.99 KB

Summary of New York Times dataset of excess deaths during the Coronavirus pandemic

The excess deaths dataset documents the number of deaths from all causes that have occurred during the Coronavirus pandemic for 24 countries. The totals in this data include deaths from Covid-19 as well as those from other causes, likely including people who could not be treated or did not seek treatment for other conditions.

Update Frequency: weekly. Dataset stats: One CSV file of 271 KB.

Dataset Profile: Pandas-profile for the dataset

Data Sources:

National and municipal health departments, Vital statistics offices and other official sources

Codebook

The data columns for the file are as follows:

# Column Description
0 deaths The total number of confirmed deaths recorded from any cause.
1 expected_deaths The baseline number of expected deaths, calculated from a historical average. See expected deaths.
2 excess_deaths The number of deaths minus the expected deaths.
3 frequency Weekly or monthly, depending on how the data is recorded.
4 start_date The first date included in the period.
5 end_date The last date included in the period.
6 month Numerical month.
7 week Epidemiological week, which is a standardized way of counting weeks to allow for year-over-year comparisons. Most countries start epi weeks on Mondays, but others vary.
8 baseline The years used to calculate expected_deaths.

Projects:

New York Times has used this data to create graphics tracking the outbreak’s toll with the dataset.

License:

The data is publicly available for broad, noncommercial public use including by medical and public health researchers, policymakers, analysts and local news media.

  • If you use this data, you must attribute it to “The New York Times” in any publication. If you would like a more expanded description of the data, you could say “Data from The New York Times, based on reports from national and municipal health agencies.”
  • If you use it in an online presentation, we would appreciate it if you would link to our graphic tracking these deaths https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html.
  • If you use this data, please let us know at [email protected].

More information about usage of content can be found at nytimes github page

Authors:

Data Collection Leads: Allison McCann and Jin Wu.