Example data dictionary for fictional Ebola Virus Disease data simulating properties from the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014

Incomplete data dictionary used for demonstrating cleaning of raw version of fictional Ebola Virus Disease data simulating properties from the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014

Usage

cleaning_dict

Format

A data frame with 9 rows and 3 columns

Source

This has been created as an example for use with linelist_raw, which is cleaned using code in the epiRhandbook cleaning chapter.

The original dataset is cleaning_dict.csv

This is version 1.0.

This dataset is English.

This dataset is licensed under MIT

Details

This is fictional data dictionary which contains recoding information.

References

WHO Ebola Response Team. 2014. Ebola virus disease in West Africa–the first 9 months of the epidemic and forward projections. The New England journal of medicine 371:1481–1495 doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1411100