OpenDengue: data from the OpenDengue database

The OpenDengue project aims to build and maintain a database of dengue case counts for every dengue-affected country worldwide since 1990 or earlier. We collate data from a range of publicly available sources including ministry of health websites, peer-reviewed publications and other disease databases.

The latest database is available on our OpenDengue website (https://opendengue.org/data.html). Past and current versions are also available in the Opendengue Github repository (https://github.com/OpenDengue/master-repo).

Global summaries of data: We provide three global summaries of the data in OpenDengue. We provide the best national estimate ("National_extract.csv"), the best temporal resolution ("Temporal_extract.csv") and the best spatial resolution ("Spatial_extract.csv"). This allows users to customise their data extraction based on their research question. Each row in the data table contains a unique, non-overlapping location and time period with the associated dengue case data. The below codebook describes each variable.
adm_0_name : administrative level 0/country name
adm_1_name : administrative level 1 name
adm_2_name : administrative level 2 name
full_name : full place name
ISO_A0 : ISO country code
FAO_GAUL_code : Food and Agricultural Organization Global Administrative Unit Layer Code
RNE_iso_code : RNaturalEarth ISO code
IBGE_code : Brazilian Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) code
calendar_start_date : the start date in calendar time with the format YYYY-mm-dd
calendar_end_date : the end date in calendar time with the format YYYY-mm-dd
Year : year
dengue_total : the total dengue case count relating to the period and place
case_definition_standardised : case definition after standardisation
S_res : spatial resolution
T_res : temporal resolution
UUID : Universal Unique Identifier relating to the source file from which the data originates

The source data and source files can be found here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24259573.