Restricted to 6 countries: Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Germany. Weekly death counts provide the most objective and comparable way of assessing the scale of short-term mortality elevations across countries and time. Extraction date from the Human Mortality Database (HMD): 09/21/2020.
Format
A data frame with 88146 rows and 19 variables:
- CountryCode
Mortality database country code
- Year
Year
- Week
Week number
- Sex
Gender ('m': male, 'f': female, 'b': both)
- D0_14
Age range 0-14
- D15_64
Age range 15-64
- D65_74
Age range 65-74
- D75_84
Age range 75-84
- D85p
Age range 85-+
- DTotal
Count of deaths for all ages combined
- R0_14
Crude death rate for age range 0-14
- R15_64
Crude death rate for age range 15-64
- R65_74
Crude death rate for age range 65-74
- R75_84
Crude death rate for age range 75-84
- R85p
Crude death rate for age range 85-+
- RTotal
Crude death rate for all ages combined
- Split
Indicates if data were split from aggregated age groups (0 if the original data has necessary detailed age scale). For example, if the original age scale was 0-4, 5-29, 30-65, 65+, then split will be equal to 1
- SplitSex
Indicates if the original data are available by sex (0) or data are interpolated (1)
- Forecast
Equals 1 for all years where forecasted population exposures were used to calculate weekly death rates