Age reporting for the oldest old in the Brazilian COVID-19 vaccination database

What can we learn from it?

Age reporting for the oldest old in the Brazilian COVID-19 vaccination database.

Authors

Affiliations

Cássio M. Turra

Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (Cedeplar), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Fernando Fernandes

Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (Cedeplar), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Júlia Almeida Calazans

Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (Cedeplar), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Marília R. Nepomuceno

Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung, Rostock, Germany

vac·ci·na·tion AmE /ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃən/ · BrE /ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃən/ noun The administration of a vaccine to stimulate immunity — and, at population scale, a source of administrative data that reveals demographic structure.

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This page accompanies the paper:

Turra, Cássio M., Fernando Fernandes, Júlia Almeida Calazans, and Marília R. Nepomuceno. 2023. “Age Reporting for the Oldest Old in the Brazilian COVID-19 Vaccination Database: What Can We Learn from It?” Demographic Research 48 (28): 829–48. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.28.

The openDataSUS extract of Brazil’s national COVID-19 vaccination database dated 14 March 2022 holds 387,750,333 dose records. This study examines the quality of age reporting in that database, comparing it with census data, demographic projections, and high-quality data from Sweden.

This project provides the R code and reference data for the first study comparing population estimates for the oldest old using administrative vaccination data and census data in Brazil.

Figures

Age-quality indicators: Brazil vs. Sweden

Proportion of individuals aged 90+ (90+/80+) by the proportion of centenarians (100+/80+) and life expectancy at age 50. Men and women. Brazil and its regions (vaccination records) and Sweden.

Data

The R code and reference data files are available for download from the project repository.

The main microdata file — 387,750,333 vaccination records, approximately 190 GB — is archived at .

Variables

Script	Purpose	Output
1-covid-19-datasus-vaccine.R	Read, clean, tabulate, and analyze data	data-treated/
2-covid-19-datasus-vaccine-plots.R	Reproduce figures	output/

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Brasil. 2021b. Plano nacional de operacionalização da vacinação contra a COVID-19. 9th ed. Brasília, DF.

CONASS (Conselho Nacional de Secretários de Saúde). 2021. “Painel de análise do excesso de mortalidade por causas naturais no Brasil.” https://www.conass.org.br/indicadores-de-obitos-por-causas-naturais/.

Human Mortality Database. 2021. HMD. University of California, Berkeley (USA) and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). https://www.mortality.org.

IBGE. 2018. Projeções da população: Brasil e unidades da federação - revisão 2018. 2nd ed. Série relatórios metodológicos, volume 40. IBGE, Coordenação de População e Indicadores Sociais. https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/sociais/populacao/9109-projecao-da-populacao.html?=&t=resultados.

Minnesota Population Center. 2020. “Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International: Version 7.3.” Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. https://doi.org/10.18128/D020.V7.3.

United Nations. 2019. World Population Prospects 2019: Online Edition. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.

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