Restricted to 6 countries: Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Germany. Weekly death counts provide the most objective and comparable way of assessing the scale of short-term mortality elevations across countries and time. Extraction date from the Human Mortality Database (HMD): 09/21/2020.
stmf_smallA data frame with 88146 rows and 19 variables:
Mortality database country code
Year
Week number
Gender ('m': male, 'f': female, 'b': both)
Age range 0-14
Age range 15-64
Age range 65-74
Age range 75-84
Age range 85-+
Count of deaths for all ages combined
Crude death rate for age range 0-14
Crude death rate for age range 15-64
Crude death rate for age range 65-74
Crude death rate for age range 75-84
Crude death rate for age range 85-+
Crude death rate for all ages combined
Indicates if data were split from aggregated age groups (0 if the original data has necessary detailed age scale). For example, if the original age scale was 0-4, 5-29, 30-65, 65+, then split will be equal to 1
Indicates if the original data are available by sex (0) or data are interpolated (1)
Equals 1 for all years where forecasted population exposures were used to calculate weekly death rates