1. The demography of COVID-19 deaths database, a gateway to well-documented international data
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Arianna Caporali, Jenny Garcia, Étienne Couppié, Svitlana Poniakina, Magali Barbieri, Florian Bonnet, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Emmanuelle Cambois, Iris Hourani, Daria Korotkova, France Meslé, Olga Penina, Jean-Marie Robine, Markus Sauerberg, Catalina Torres, Institut national d'études démographiques (INED), University of California [Berkeley], University of California, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy (USMF), Federal Institute for Population Research, Éco-Anthropologie (EAE), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Statistics and Probability ,Databases, Factual ,EPIDEMICS ,Library and Information Sciences ,[SHS.DEMO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Demography ,INTERNATIONAL_COMPARISON ,Education ,STATISTICAL_DATA ,Database ,PLACE_OF_DEATH ,[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,DEMOGRAPHIC_STATISTICS ,Humans ,DEFECTIVE_DATA ,DIFFERENTIAL_MORTALITY ,Demography ,[SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,[INFO.INFO-DB]Computer Science [cs]/Databases [cs.DB] ,Pandemic ,MORTALITY ,DEATH ,COVID-19 ,Covid 19 ,AGE_DISTRIBUTION ,Computer Science Applications ,Europe ,UNITED_STATES ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,Information Systems - Abstract
National authorities publish COVID-19 death counts, which are extensively re-circulated and compared; but data are generally poorly sourced and documented. Academics and stakeholders need tools to assess data quality and to track data-related discrepancies for comparability over time or across countries. “The Demography of COVID-19 Deaths” database aims at bridging this gap. It provides COVID-19 death counts along with associated documentation, which includes the exact data sources and points out issues of quality and coverage of the data. The database — launched in April 2020 and continuously updated — contains daily cumulative death counts attributable to COVID-19 broken down by sex and age, place and date of occurrence of the death. Data and metadata undergo quality control checks prior to online release. As of mid-December 2021, it covers 21 countries in Europe and beyond. It is open access at a bilingual (English and French) website with content intended for expert users and non-specialists (https://dc-covid.site.ined.fr/en/; figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5807027). Data and metadata are available for each country separately and pooled over all countries.
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- 2022