who: World Health Organization TB data
Description
A subset of data from the World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis
Report, and accompanying global populations.Format
A dataset with the variables
- country
- Country name
- iso2,iso2
- 2 & 3 letter ISO country codes
- new_sp_m014 - new_rel_f65
- Counts of new TB cases recorded by group.
Column names encode three variables that describe the group (see details).
Details
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).