NEWS.md
In Bisaloo/contactdata: Social Contact Matrices for 177 Countries

contactdata (development version)

age_df_countries() now pads single-digit ages with a leading 0 to ensure correct ordering. The new behaviour also produces age bin labels that are consistent with the labels for the contact matrices

Before:

country age population 945 France 70_74 3611581 946 France 65_69 3915473 947 France 60_64 4123982 948 France 5_9 4179215 949 France 55_59 4344144 950 France 50_54 4445007 951 France 45_49 4490632 952 France 40_44 3991502 953 France 35_39 4097635 954 France 30_34 4036630 955 France 25_29 3920126 956 France 20_24 3959154 957 France 15_19 4100855 958 France 10_14 4201067 959 France 0_4 4070454 960 France 75+ 6352464

After:

country age population 945 France 00_04 4070454 946 France 05_09 4179215 947 France 10_14 4201067 948 France 15_19 4100855 949 France 20_24 3959154 950 France 25_29 3920126 951 France 30_34 4036630 952 France 35_39 4097635 953 France 40_44 3991502 954 France 45_49 4490632 955 France 50_54 4445007 956 France 55_59 4344144 957 France 60_64 4123982 958 France 65_69 3915473 959 France 70_74 3611581 960 France 75+ 6352464

contactdata 1.0.0

The updated data from Prem et al. (2021) has been added (#4). This results in a large number of cascading changes, including some breaking changes, detailed below.

The new default returns data from the updated dataset. This means that any re-run of code written with previous versions of contactdata will return a different result
Arguments in contact_df_countries() have been removed and replaced by ... to increase flexibility. This is only an interface change and does not modify the behaviour since all arguments were already forwarded to contact_matrix().

list_countries() and contact_matrix() now have two additional arguments:
geographic_setting, which specifies if you'd like to get the contact data from a "rural", "urban" setting, or from "all" settings.
data_source, which indicates if the data should be extracted from Prem et al. (2017) or Prem et al. (2021)

contactdata 0.2

Addition of a new function age_df_countries() to get population by age for all the countries for which we provide contact data. This is motivated by the fact that models using contact data by age will almost surely need population data by age as well.