Data containing information on malaria prevalence in Africa. Data was
extracted using the malariaAtlas
package. If using this data, please
cite:
data(malaria_africa_ts)
An object of class tbl_ts
(inherits from tbl_df
, tbl
, data.frame
) with 1046 rows and 15 columns.
Pfeffer, D.A., Lucas, T.C., May, D., Harris, J., Rozier, J., Twohig, K.A., Dalrymple, U., Guerra, C.A., Moyes, C.L., Thorn, M., Nguyen, M., et al. 2018. malariaAtlas: an R interface to global malariometric data hosted by the Malaria Atlas Project. Malaria Journal, 17(1), p.352.
Format: a 'tsibble' data frame with 1,117 observations on the following 15 variables.
who_region
A character of WHO region, the largest region size.
who_subregion
A character of WHO subregion, the second largest region size.
country
A character of countries, the smallest region size.
country_id
A three letter character code adhering to the standard, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3. For more detail see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3.
continent_id
A character of continent name
year
integer of year data recorded
month
integer of month data recorded
date
date class of year+month recorded. Defaults to day = 1 as day was not provided.
lower_age
lower age range
upper_age
upper age range
examined
integer, number of people examined
positive
numeric, number of positive cases
pr
positive rate - given from positive/examined
species
Mosquito species
method
method of measurement