Dengue Surveillance Data from Caldas, Colombia, 2015–2024
Description
This dataset contains 8,294 dengue-related administrative surveillance records from Caldas, Colombia, covering the years 2015 to 2024. The records were obtained from the Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS) and originate from the SIVIGILA public-health surveillance system. The raw microdata were officially retrieved from the INS Sivigila Web 4.0 Search Portal (https://portalsivigila.ins.gov.co/Paginas/Buscador.aspx). The repository includes the original Spanish CSV, an English-US representation of the 46 source variables, three date-derived care-timing variables, and an R script that reproduces the cleaning steps, descriptive tables, and figures used in the associated Data article. No predictive or survival model is fitted in the repository script.
Files
Steps to reproduce
1. Download all repository files into the same directory. 2. Open R or RStudio and set the working directory to that folder. 3. Confirm that the required R packages are installed. 4. Run: source("Reproduce_Dengue_Caldas_Data_Article.R") 5. The script creates a folder named reproduced_outputs. 6. Compare the generated tables and figures with those reported in the associated Data article.