Simulated Varicella outbreak

varicella_sim_berlin

Format

A data frame with 500 rows and 13 columns

sex

The gender of the simulated persons

ethnicity

Simulated ethnical origin

firstname

First names of the simulated persons

lastname

Last names of the simulated persons

age

Age of the simulated persons

center1

Name of the first center where the simulated persons stay

arrival1

Date of arrival at the first center

leave1

Date of departure at the first center

center2

Name of the second center where the simulated persons stay

arrival2

Date of arrival at the second center

leave2

Date of departure at the second center

onset

Date of onset of the disease

disease

Name of the disease

Background

This dataset is useful to compute incidence rates.

This dataset simulates an outbreak of varicella in german centers for foreigners. It is loosely based on the situation in 2015, when the numbers of foreigners seeking asylum exeded the available places in the center for foreigners. Varicella was the most frequent disease in these centers at that time. comparable with kindergartens and other shelters.

Description of infectious diseases in people seeking asylum in Germany in 2017 of Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Gesundheitsmonitoring/Gesundheitsberichterstattung/GesundAZ/Content/A/Asylsuchende/Asylsuchende.html

The dataset was created by the package outbreakcreator https://github.com/jakobschumacher/outbreakcreator/.

Author

Data simulated by Jakob Schumacher (jakob.schumacher@web.de).

Examples

head(varicella_sim_berlin)
#> sex ethnicity firstname lastname age center1 arrival1 #> 1 female arabic Saleema al-Ismael 16 Oranienburger Str 2015-05-06 #> 2 male hispanic Domonic Jaramillo 25 Platz der Luftbruecke 2015-01-19 #> 3 female arabic Haaniya el-Mitri 34 Platz der Luftbruecke 2015-04-11 #> 4 female asian Erica Tanghal 11 Platz der Luftbruecke 2015-01-20 #> 5 male asian Fermin Joshua Kikuchi 34 Platz der Luftbruecke 2015-06-15 #> 6 male arabic Muslim al-Moussa 5 Bizetstr 2014-11-18 #> leave1 center2 arrival2 leave2 onset disease #> 1 2015-06-20 Bizetstr 2015-06-27 2015-08-19 <NA> <NA> #> 2 2015-01-21 Bizetstr 2015-01-30 2015-03-02 <NA> <NA> #> 3 2015-07-09 Platz der Luftbruecke 2015-07-18 2015-10-03 2015-07-06 varicella #> 4 2015-03-30 Oranienburger Str 2015-04-08 2015-07-13 2015-08-20 varicella #> 5 2015-08-17 Platz der Luftbruecke 2015-08-22 2015-11-01 <NA> <NA> #> 6 2015-02-03 Platz der Luftbruecke 2015-02-17 2015-04-27 <NA> <NA>