Data set for all Canadian provinces and territories containing COVID-19 case rates (COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people) derived from COVID-19 case counts as reported by the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group (CCODWG). Data is available both through the archived ccodwg/Covid19Canada GitHub repository and the newer ccodwg/CovidTimelineCanada GitHub repository, which also reports vaccine-related signals.
Format
An epiprocess::epi_archive. The DT attribute contains the data formatted as a data.table::data.table (object of class c("data.table", "data.frame")) with 65299 rows and 4 columns.
Source
This object contains a modified part of the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group's Covid19Canada data repository (archived). This data set is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license by the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group. The COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group collected the data from publicly available sources such as government datasets and news releases.
Modifications:
The case rate signal are calculated using the case count taken directly from the CCODWG ccodwg/Covid19Canada GitHub repository and population data.
Furthermore, the data has been limited to a very small number of rows, the signal names slightly altered, some province names replaced with abbreviations, and formatted into an
epi_archive.
The population data used (but not included in the dataset itself) is from the mountainMath/BCCovidSnippets GitHub repository.
Details
This dataset contains versioned data snapshots from February 1, 2021 to December 1, 2021 covering the period from April 2, 2020 to December 1, 2021. It is used in the epipredict slide vignette.
Data dictionary
The data in the epi_archive$DT attribute has columns:
- version
the time value specifying the version for each row of measurements.
- geo_value
the province or territory associated with each row of measurements.
- time_value
the time value associated with each row of measurements.
- case_rate
number of new confirmed cases due to COVID-19 per 100,000 population, daily