Maternal Health in Ecuador, 2012–2024: national master database of morbidity, mortality, hospital burden, and reproducible indicators (ectopic pregnancy, abortion, hypertensive disorders, obstetric hemorrhage, diabetes in pregnancy, complications of labor and delivery)

This dataset provides a curated, structured, and reproducible master database for the study of maternal health in Ecuador between 2012 and 2024. It integrates national-level information on hospital morbidity, maternal mortality, hospital resource use, population denominators, ICD-10 diagnostic classifications, analytical indicators, methodological parameters, source traceability, and quality-control documentation. The dataset focuses on six major maternal health conditions: ectopic pregnancy, abortion-related conditions, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, obstetric hemorrhage, diabetes in pregnancy, and complications of labor and delivery. Diagnostic groups are defined using ICD-10 codes and are documented separately to preserve transparency and reproducibility. The database consolidates information derived from official Ecuadorian sources, primarily the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC), including hospital discharge statistics, mortality data, live-birth denominators, and population estimates and projections. Hospital discharge analyses cover 2012–2024, while maternal mortality analyses cover 2019–2024. The master database includes hospital discharge events, estimated unique cases, hospital days, mean length of stay, hospitalization ratios, maternal mortality ratios, cause-specific mortality ratios, temporal trends, annual percent changes, regression outputs, interrupted time-series measures, excess hospitalizations, and conservative burden-of-disease estimates expressed as years of life lost (YLL), years lived with disability (YLD), and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The deposited dataset contains aggregate analytical results and documentation rather than individual patient-level records. Diagnostic groups may overlap and should not be interpreted as mutually exclusive categories or summed as counts of unique women. Hospitalization ratios based on live births should also be interpreted as contextual hospital-use measures rather than incidence estimates for conditions such as ectopic pregnancy and abortion-related disorders. The package includes the master database in XLSX format, interoperable CSV tables, a data dictionary, methodological documentation, source metadata, quality-control records, ICD-10 definitions, analytical parameters, population denominators, FAIR documentation, ethics and privacy information, and citation metadata. The dataset was designed to support transparency, auditability, reproducibility, secondary analysis, and future updates of maternal health research in Ecuador.