A 'linelist' is a (tidy) data format used in public health data collection with each row representing an individual (patient, participant, etc) and each column representing a variable associated with said individual.
Details
df_ll is an example linelist dataset containing data for a fake measles
outbreak in Yemen. The data contains temporal, demographic, and geographic
information for each patient, as well as other medical indicators.
Examples
df_ll
#> # A tibble: 1,000 × 30
#> case_id date_notification date_symptom_start date_hospitalisation_start
#> <chr> <date> <date> <date>
#> 1 P0001 2022-10-07 2022-10-03 NA
#> 2 P0002 2022-09-18 2022-09-12 NA
#> 3 P0003 2022-04-11 2022-04-01 2022-04-14
#> 4 P0004 2022-04-16 2022-04-11 2022-04-20
#> 5 P0005 2022-08-05 2022-07-29 2022-08-09
#> 6 P0006 2022-10-06 2022-09-30 NA
#> 7 P0007 2022-08-01 2022-07-29 NA
#> 8 P0008 2022-08-06 2022-07-30 2022-08-11
#> 9 P0009 2022-05-06 2022-04-30 2022-05-09
#> 10 P0010 2022-10-13 2022-10-11 NA
#> # ℹ 990 more rows
#> # ℹ 26 more variables: date_sample_occurred <date>,
#> # date_sample_lab_result_occurred <date>, date_hospitalisation_end <date>,
#> # sex_id <chr>, age_years <dbl>, age_group <fct>, adm1_origin <chr>,
#> # adm2_origin <chr>, adm3_origin <chr>, adm4_origin <chr>, adm1_pcode <chr>,
#> # adm2_pcode <chr>, fever <chr>, rash <chr>, cough <chr>, oral_lesions <chr>,
#> # muac <chr>, oedema <chr>, hospitalised_yn <chr>, measles_stage <chr>, …