World Health Organization TB data
A subset of data from the World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis Report, and accompanying global populations.
who population
who
: a data frame with 7,240 rows and the 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 (see details).
population
: a data frame with 4,060 rows and three columns:
Country name
Year
Population
The data uses the original codes given by the World Health
Organization. The column names for columns five through 60 are made by
combining new_
to a code for method of diagnosis (rel
=
relapse, sn
= negative pulmonary smear, sp
= positive
pulmonary smear, ep
= extrapulmonary) to a code for gender
(f
= female, m
= male) to a code for age group (014
=
0-14 yrs of age, 1524
= 15-24 years of age, 2534
= 25 to
34 years of age, 3544
= 35 to 44 years of age, 4554
= 45 to
54 years of age, 5564
= 55 to 64 years of age, 65
= 65 years
of age or older).
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