Clinical and sociodemographic data on congenital syphilis cases, Brazil, 2013-2022

This data set presents clinical and sociodemographic data regarding antenatal care, pregnant women's outcomes, the result of the mother's first syphilis test, and their children's Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test results, which is a screening test for congenital syphilis at childbirth, from the cities served by the Mãe Coruja Pernambucana Program (PMCP) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, between the years of 2013 and 2022. There are 47,604 records and 27 attributes in the data set, including 1002 positive cases and 46,602 cases of congenital syphilis.

The PMCP is a social program created by the Brazilian government of the state of Pernambuco that aims to offer support to pregnant women before and after the birth of their children through Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), the Brazilian public healthcare system, monitoring the evolution of children up to the age of 5 years and ensuring their healthy and harmonious development during the first years of life.

This data set contains two CSV files: the "data_set.csv" file contains the pre-processed data set, and the "attributes.csv" file contains information about each attribute.