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covus_ethnicity

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COVID-19 case and death counts for the USA by Hispanic/Non-Hispanic ethnicity and state current as of Sunday, January 22, 2023

Description

The COVID Racial Data Tracker advocates for, collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic across the United States. It’s a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

Usage

covus_ethnicity

Format

A tibble with 15,960 rows and 7 columns

date: date Data reported as of this date
state: character State
group: character Ethnic group
cases: integer Total cases, count
deaths: integer Total deaths, count
hosp: integer Total hospitalizations, count

Details

Table: Data summary


Name	covus_ethnicity
Number of rows	15960
Number of columns	7
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Column type frequency:
Date	1
character	2
numeric	4
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Group variables	None

Variable type: Date

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	median	n_unique
date	0	1	2020-04-12	2021-03-07	2020-09-23	95

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
state	0	1	2	2	0	56	0
group	0	1	7	12	0	3	0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
cases	3080	0.81	73357.18	166184.31	0	5529	21920.5	70265.5	2619476	▇▁▁▁▁
deaths	3144	0.80	1645.64	3463.93	-1	63	291.5	1401.0	32664	▇▁▁▁▁
hosp	11662	0.27	5079.37	8831.52	0	556	1556.0	4959.5	56406	▇▁▁▁▁
tests	14271	0.11	892566.44	2376098.22	0	58933	224156.0	537668.0	21633943	▇▁▁▁▁

The group variable is coded as "Hispanic", "Non-Hispanic", or "Unknown". Hispanics may be of any race. State-level counts should be handled with care, given the widely varying population distribution of people of different ethnic backgrounds by state.