surveillance (version 1.11.0)

measles.weser: Measles in the Weser-Ems region of Lower Saxony, Germany, 2001-2002

Description

Weekly counts of new measles cases for the 17 administrative districts (NUTS-3 level) of the Weser-Ems region of Lower Saxony, Germany, during 2001 and 2002, as reported to the Robert Koch institute according to the Infection Protection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz, IfSG). data("measlesWeserEms") is a corrected version of data("measles.weser") (see Format section below). These data are illustrated and analyzed in Meyer et al. (2016, Section 5).

Usage

data("measles.weser")
data("measlesWeserEms")

encoding

latin1

source

Measles counts were obtained from the public SurvStat database of the Robert Koch institute: http://www3.rki.de/SurvStat.

A shapefile of Germany's districts as of 01/01/2009 was obtained from the Service Center (www.geodatenzentrum.de) of the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (www.bkg.bund.de). The map of the 17 districts of the Weser-Ems region (measlesWeserEms@map) is a simplified subset of this shapefile using a 30% reduction via the Douglas-Peucker reduction method as implemented at MapShaper.org.

Population numbers were obtained from the Federal Statistical Office of Lower Saxony (LSN): http://www.statistik.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=25688&article_id=87679&_psmand=40

Vaccination coverage was obtained from the public health department of Lower Saxony: Nieders�{ae}chsisches Landesgesundheitsamt (2005): Impfreport -- Durchimpfung von Kindern im Einschulungsalter in Niedersachsen im Erhebungsjahrgang 2004. Online available from http://www.nlga.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=27093&article_id=19385&_psmand=20, also as an interactive version.

References

Meyer, S., Held, L. and H�{oe}hle, M. (2016): Spatio-temporal analysis of epidemic phenomena using the Rpackage surveillance. Journal of Statistical Software. In press. Preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0416

Examples

## old "disProg" object
data("measles.weser")
measles.weser
plot(measles.weser, as.one=FALSE)

## new "sts" object (with corrections)
data("measlesWeserEms")
measlesWeserEms
plot(measlesWeserEms)