French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), 9 cours des Humanités, CS 50004, 93322, Aubervilliers, Cedex, France.
Department of Demography, University of California-Berkeley, 2234 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2120, United States.
Sci Data. 2022 Mar 22;9(1):93. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01191-y.
National authorities publish COVID-19 death counts, which are extensively re-circulated and compared; but data are generally poorly sourced and documented. Academics and stakeholders need tools to assess data quality and to track data-related discrepancies for comparability over time or across countries. "The Demography of COVID-19 Deaths" database aims at bridging this gap. It provides COVID-19 death counts along with associated documentation, which includes the exact data sources and points out issues of quality and coverage of the data. The database - launched in April 2020 and continuously updated - contains daily cumulative death counts attributable to COVID-19 broken down by sex and age, place and date of occurrence of the death. Data and metadata undergo quality control checks prior to online release. As of mid-December 2021, it covers 21 countries in Europe and beyond. It is open access at a bilingual (English and French) website with content intended for expert users and non-specialists ( https://dc-covid.site.ined.fr/en/ ; figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5807027 ). Data and metadata are available for each country separately and pooled over all countries.
国家当局发布 COVID-19 死亡人数，这些数据被广泛传播和比较；但数据的来源和记录通常很差。学者和利益攸关方需要工具来评估数据质量，并跟踪与数据相关的差异，以实现随时间或跨国家的可比性。“COVID-19 死亡人口统计学”数据库旨在弥合这一差距。它提供了 COVID-19 死亡人数，以及相关的文件记录，其中包括确切的数据来源，并指出了数据的质量和覆盖范围方面的问题。该数据库于 2020 年 4 月推出，并持续更新，包含按性别和年龄、发生地点和日期细分的归因于 COVID-19 的每日累计死亡人数。在发布到网上之前，数据和元数据要经过质量控制检查。截至 2021 年 12 月中旬，它涵盖了欧洲和其他地区的 21 个国家。它在一个双语（英语和法语）网站上开放获取，内容面向专家用户和非专业人士（https://dc-covid.site.ined.fr/en/；figshare：https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5807027）。每个国家的数据和元数据单独提供，并在所有国家之间汇总。
