UK-wide COVID-19 case counts stratified by Lower tier local authority

A dataset of the daily count of COVID-19 cases by Lower tier local authority in the UK downloaded from the UKHSA coronavirus API, and formatted for use in ggoutbreak.

Usage

data("ltla_cases")

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 512050 rows and 6 columns.

Source

https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/covid-19-archive-data-download

Originally licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Details

ltla_cases dataframe with 512050 rows and 6 columns

name (chr)

The region name

code (chr)

The region code

codeType (chr)

The ONS geographical region code type (including year)

date (date)

The date

count (dbl)

the test positives for each LTLA

population (dbl)

the population size for this geography

Examples

dplyr::glimpse(ltla_cases)
#> Rows: 512,050
#> Columns: 6
#> $ code       <chr> "S12000033", "S12000033", "S12000033", "S12000033", "S12000…
#> $ date       <date> 2020-03-04, 2020-03-05, 2020-03-06, 2020-03-07, 2020-03-08…
#> $ count      <dbl> 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 3,…
#> $ population <dbl> 228670, 228670, 228670, 228670, 228670, 228670, 228670, 228…
#> $ name       <chr> "Aberdeen City", "Aberdeen City", "Aberdeen City", "Aberdee…
#> $ codeType   <chr> "LAD19", "LAD19", "LAD19", "LAD19", "LAD19", "LAD19", "LAD1…