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Weekly England COVID test positives by age group including testing effort

Source: R/data.R
england_covid_test_positives.Rd

An age group stratified dataset from

Usage

data(england_covid_test_positives)

Format

A dataframe containing the following columns:

  • class (character) - the age group

  • date (date) - the start date of a week

  • count (numeric) - the count of COVID positives

  • denom (numeric) - the number of COVID tests performed for that age group that week

  • population (numeric) - the size of the population in this age group

  • time (time_period) - the time column (weekly)

Must be grouped by: class (and other groupings allowed).

No default value.

1050 rows and 6 columns

Details

  • the coronavirus.gov.uk site for positive cases aggregated to 10 year age groups and by weekly time.

  • NHS test and trace date which reported regional by age group testing effort aggregated to country level.

  • ONS 2021 census population aggregated to 10 year age groups.