Weekly cholera cases by governorate and district in Yemen between 2016 and 2020

These datasets have been digitised from publicly available official WHO data on cholera cases in Yemen. They are provided in xlsx and csv formats.More information on cholera surveillance in Yemen is available in the report Cholera in Yemen:<br>a case study of epidemic preparedness and response by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health.EOC dashboard dataThe dataset "YEM-CHOLERA-EOC-DIS-WEEK-20170424-20200621" contains weekly cholera case counts by district (administrative level 2) in Yemen from 2017-04-24 to 2020-06-21.These data were automatically extracted from the cholera dashboard developed by the emergency operations center (EOC) led by WHO. The EOC brought the efforts of all UN agencies, Humanitarian partners, government ministries and other stakeholders together in one place. The EOC concept worked at national and governorate levels led by the incident management cell of WHO. This unified platform provided Operations, technical, logistics and Information Management support during the cholera epidemic in Yemen.WHO Epi Bulletin dataThe dataset "YEM-CHOLERA-WHO-GOV-WEEK-20160926-20170423" contains weekly cholera case counts by governorate (administrative level 1) in Yemen from 2016-09-26 to 2017-04-23.The EOC dashboard does not contain data on the first wave of the cholera epidemic in Yemen, which occurred in 2016. For this period, the only publicly available data comes from the WHO Epidemiological Bulletin, which was published regularly on the WHO website as well as on Relief-Web. The report for the week 26 of 2016 (see file "WHO-YEM-CHOLERA-EPI-BULLETIN-2018-W26.pdf") contains time series graphs of weekly cholera cases by governorate, which have been digitised using PlotDigitizer. Due to the limited resolution of the graphs, we have decided to round the value obtained to the nearest 50.Combined dataThe dataset "YEM-CHOLERA-WHOEOC-GOV-WEEK-20160926-20200621" contains weekly cholera case counts by governorate (administrative level 1) in Yemen from 2016-09-26 to 2020-06-21.This dataset was created by aggregating district-level EOC dashboard data at governorate level and combining it to data from the first wave of the WHO Epi Bulletin.Dictionary of variablesgovernorate_en (text) : name of governorate in Englishgovernorate_ar (text) : name of governorate in Arabicdistrict_en (text) : name of district in Englishdistrict_ar (text) : name of district in Arabicdate_monday (date) : start date of the week (Monday)date_sunday (date) : end date of the week (Sunday)cases (integer) : number of cholera cases reported on that week<br><br>