Extent of infectious diseases

README for extent of infectious diseases (disarea.*)

Variables in the data set: disease extent by country for: yellow fever (1952 and 1996); plague (1952); leprosy (1952); visceral leishmaniasis (1954 and 1984); helminthiasis (1952); dengue fever (1951 and 1975 to 1995); schistosomiasis (1987); and lymphatic filiriases (1984).

Stata do file is a program (disarea.do) written in Stata to load the data in disarea.csv and create the variable labels etc. in disarea.dta. It can be used as a model to load the data into other statistical packages besides Stata.

Stata data file is the Stata data set with the infectious disease data by country (disarea.dta).

ASCII file is a comma separated value file (disarea.csv) of the infectious disease data that can be opened as a spreadsheet in Excel, or used in conjunction with the Stata do file (disarea.do).

These data sets were created as part of The Center for International Development’s ongoing research into the role of geography in economic development (see www.cid.harvard.edu/economic.htm). They have been created between 1998 and 1999. Please reference CID if you use this data in a publication.

Notes for disarea.dta

Contents: disease extent by country: yellow fever (1952 and 1996); plague (1952); leprosy (1952); visceral leishmaniasis (1954 and 1984); helminthiasis (1952); dengue fever (1951 and 1975 to 1995); schistosomiasis (1987); and lymphatic filiriases (1984).

Variable Description Creation/Source of Data & notes wbcode World Bank (ISO) country code ESRI, 1996. Arcworld Supplement Data Reference and User’s Guide. Redlands, Calif. country country name ESRI, 1996. Arcworld Supplement Data Reference and User’s Guide. Redlands, Calif. disa1 land area with yellow fever (% country area), Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. 1952 “Distribution of Dengue and Yellow Fever: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 5.” The American Geographical Society, The Geographic Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1952. disa2 land area with plague (% country area), 1952 Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. “Distribution of Plague 1900-1952: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 6.” The American Geographical Society, The Geographic Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1952. disa3 land area with leprosy (% country area), 1952 Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. “Distribution of Leprosy 1952: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 7.” The American Geographical Society, The Geographic Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, 1953. disa4 land area with oriental sore leishmaniasis (% Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. country area), 1954 “Distribution of Leishmaniases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 14.” The American Geographical Society. 1954. disa5 land area with kala azar leishmaniasis (% Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. country area), 1954 “Distribution of Leishmaniases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 14.” The American Geographical Society. 1954. disa6 land area with american leishmaniasis (% Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. country area), 1954 “Distribution of Leishmaniases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 14.” The American Geographical Society. 1954. disa7 land area with helminthiasis schistosoma Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. haematobium (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa8 land area with helminthiasis schistosoma Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. mansoni (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Variable Description Creation/Source of Data & notes Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa9 land area with helminthiasis filariid mansonella Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. ozzard (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa10 land area with helminthiasis paragoniumus Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. westermani (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa11 land area with helminthiasis fasciolapsis buski Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa12 land area with helminthiasis opisthorchis Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. felineus (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa13 land area with helminthiasis diphyllobothrium Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. latum (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa14 land area with helminthiasis clonorchis sinensis Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa15 land area with helminthiasis hookworm group Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa16 land area with helminthiasis filarid loa loa (% Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa17 land area with helminthiasis filariid wucheria Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. bancrofti & malayii (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa18 land area with helminthiasis filariid onchocerca Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. volvulus (% country area), 1952 “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa19 land area with helminthiasis filariid Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. acanthocherlonema perstons (% country area), “Distribution of Helminthiases: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 4.” The American Geographical Society. The 1952 Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952. disa20 land area with dengue fever (% country area), Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. 1951 “Distribution of Dengue and Yellow Fever: Atlas of Diseases – Plate 5.” The American Geographical Society, The Geographic Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1952. disa21 land area with schistosomiasis (% country area), Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. 1987 Doumenge, J. P., et al. 1987. Atlas de la Répartition Mondiale des Schistosomiases. Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. disa22 land area with yellow ever (% country area), Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. 1996 WHO. www.who.int/ith/english/map1.htm disa23 land area with dengue fever (% country area), Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. 1975 to 1995 WHO. 1995. “Key Issues in Dengue Vector Control Toward the Operationalization of a Global Strategy.” Geneva: WHO. Page 4. disa24 land area with lymphatic filiariases (% country Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. area), 1984 WHO. 1984. Lymphatic Filiriases. Technical Report Series 702. Geneva: WHO. disa25 land area with visceral leishmaniasis (% country Calculated in equal-area cylindrical projection. area), 1984 WHO. 1984. The Leishmaniases. Technical Report Series 701. Geneva: WHO. Page 49. Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max ------+------wbcode | 164 country | 164 disa1 | 164 .2156098 .3905701 0 1.04 disa2 | 164 .0043293 .0419484 0 .53 disa3 | 164 .0346341 .0861472 0 .51 disa4 | 164 .4571341 .4280585 0 1.01 disa5 | 164 .104939 .2643559 0 1 disa6 | 164 .0452439 .135454 0 .99 disa7 | 164 .0352439 .1439003 0 .98 disa20 | 164 .1191463 .291142 0 1 disa21 | 164 .2145732 .3917811 0 1.02 disa22 | 164 .3209146 .4413446 0 1.01 disa23 | 164 .247622 .393184 0 1.02 disa24 | 164 .1337195 .2771993 0 .99 disa8 | 164 .2034756 .3527014 0 1 disa9 | 164 .0861585 .2110837 0 1 disa10 | 164 .1136585 .2840959 0 1 disa11 | 164 .0266463 .1240882 0 .93 disa12 | 164 .0028659 .0211847 0 .22 disa13 | 164 .122622 .2936043 0 1.04 disa14 | 164 .0038415 .0347365 0 .43 disa15 | 164 .4344512 .4100804 0 1 disa16 | 164 .0361585 .1623312 0 .99 disa17 | 164 .2609146 .3826447 0 1 disa18 | 164 .1031707 .2608475 0 1 disa25 | 164 .0054268 .0314545 0 .24 disa19 | 164 .1269512 .3092627 0 1