surveillance (version 1.8-3)

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).

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 are obtained from the Federal Statistical Office of Lower Saxony (NLS): http://www.lskn.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.

Examples

data("measles.weser")
measles.weser
plot(measles.weser, as.one=FALSE)

data("measlesWeserEms")
measlesWeserEms
plot(measlesWeserEms)