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 complete details, methodologies, and findings associated with this dataset are available in our research paper (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03120-7).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).File descriptorGlobal 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 nameadm_1_name : administrative level 1 nameadm_2_name : administrative level 2 namefull_name : full place nameISO_A0 : ISO country codeFAO_GAUL_code : Food and Agricultural Organization Global Administrative Unit Layer CodeRNE_iso_code : RNaturalEarth ISO codeIBGE_code : Brazilian Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) codecalendar_start_date : the start date in calendar time with the format YYYY-mm-ddcalendar_end_date : the end date in calendar time with the format YYYY-mm-ddYear : yeardengue_total : the total dengue case count relating to the period and place (see dengue classification protocol and dengue double count protocol)case_definition_standardised : case definition after standardisationS_res : spatial resolutionT_res : temporal resolutionUUID : Universal Unique Identifier relating to the source file from which the data originates