Data for: Assessing reporting delays and the effective reproduction number: The 2018 Ebola epidemic in DRC, May-November, 2018

Data set made available contains data on the reporting delays for the submitted manuscript "Assessing reporting delays and the effective reproduction number: The 2018-19 Ebola epidemic in DRC, May 2018-January 2019". Data set contains 7 variables and 661 observations in total. Data has been extracted from the epidemic curves of the WHO situation reports and disease outbreak news using an online software, WebPlotDigitizer.