Dataset: COVID-19 case counts in The Netherlands

❗ ❗ ❗ Data changes by RIVM - 31 March 2020 #44 ❗ ❗ ❗

CoronaWatchNL collects COVID-19 disease count cases in The Netherlands. Numbers are collected from the RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) website on a daily basis. This project standardizes, and publishes data and makes it Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). We aim to collect a complete time series and prepare a dataset for reproducible analysis and academic use.

Dutch:

CoronalWatchNL verzamelt ziektecijfers over COVID-19 in Nederland. Dagelijks worden de cijfers verzameld van de website van het RIVM. Dit project standaardiseert en publiceert de gegevens en maakt ze vindbaar, toegankelijk, interoperabel en herbruikbaar (FAIR). We streven ernaar om een dataset beschikbaar te stellen voor reproduceerbare analyses en wetenschappelijk gebruik.

Datasets

The following datasets are available for reuse. ❗ Daily updates ❗

Dataset	Source	Variables
COVID-19 reported case counts by date in NL	RIVM	Date, Type (Total, hopitalized and deceased patients), Count (the reported numbers for that day)
COVID-19 case counts by date in NL (NEW)	RIVM	Date, Type (Total, hopitalized and deceased patients), Count (the actual numbers for that day)
COVID-19 case counts in NL per province	RIVM	Date, Province, COVID-19 case counts
COVID-19 hospitalizations in NL per municipality	RIVM	Date, Number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients in NL, Municipality of residence, Municipality code (2019), Province
COVID-19 case counts in NL per age	RIVM	Date, Age group, Type, Number of positive COVID-19 disease cases in NL
COVID-19 case counts in NL per gender	RIVM	Date, Gender group, Type, Number of positive COVID-19 disease cases in NL
COVID-19 tests in NL by date (NEW)	RIVM	Publication Date, Date, Included labs, Type (Total and positive tests), Number of tests
COVID-19 per municipality (PDF maps)	RIVM	Date, Type, Number of positive COVID-19 disease cases, hospitalizations and fatalities per 100.000 people, Municipality, Province
RIVM press releases	RIVM	Date and Time, Content of press release
COVID-19 intensive care patient counts in NL (EXPERIMENTAL)	Stichting NICE	Date, New intake of positive IC patients, Total of positive patients currently in IC, Total of positive patients ever in IC, Total of ICUs with currently at least one positive patient, Total of fatal IC cases, Total of survived IC cases

Deprecated (pending)

The following datasets are awaiting deprecation. They are replaced by new datasets.

Dataset	URL	Source	Variables	Alternative
COVID-19 disease case counts in NL	RIVM	Date, Number of positive COVID-19 disease cases in NL	rivm_NL_covid19_national.csv	COVID-19 case counts in NL
COVID-19 fatalities in NL	RIVM	Date, Number of COVID-19 fatalities in NL	rivm_NL_covid19_national.csv	COVID-19 case counts in NL
COVID-19 hospitalizations in NL	RIVM	Date, Number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients in NL	rivm_NL_covid19_national.csv	COVID-19 case counts in NL

Inactive

The following datasets are no longer appended with new data (because RIVM is no longer providing the data).

Dataset	URL	Source	Variables	Expire date
COVID-19 disease case counts in NL	[long format] [wide format]	RIVM	Date, Number of positive COVID-19 disease cases in NL, Municipality of residence, Municipality code (2019), Province	2020-03-30

Raw data

CoronaWatchNL collects copies of the raw data such that data collection is verifiable. Copies of the collected data can be found in the folder raw_data/. The data isn't standardised.

Data collection sources

The following sources are used for data collection.

Source	Institute	Collected variables
https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/actuele-informatie-over-coronavirus	RIVM	Positively tested patients, Fatalities (total), Hospitalized (total)
https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-kaart-van-nederland-per-gemeente	RIVM	Positive tests per municipality
https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/actuele-informatie-over-coronavirus/data	RIVM	Epidemiological reports
https://www.stichting-nice.nl/	Stichting NICE	Postively tested patients admitted to IC, Number of ICUs with positively tested patient(s), Number of fatal IC cases, Number of survived IC cases

Remarks

Since 3 March 2020, RIVM reports the number of diagnoses with the coronavirus and their municipality of residence on a daily base. The data contains the total number of positively tested patients. It is not a dataset with the current number of sick people in the Netherlands. The RIVM does not currently provide data on people who have been cured.

Graphs

The following graphs visualize the development of the COVID-19 disease outbreak. The underlying data can be found in the data folder. The graphs can be found in the plots folder. See the license section for information about sharing the graphs.

Interesting links

License and academic use

The graphs and data are licensed CC0. The original data is copyright RIVM.

For academic use, use presistent data from . This is a persistent copy of the data. Version number refer to the date. Please cite:

De Bruin, J. (2020). Number of diagnoses with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in The Netherlands (Version v2020.3.15) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3711575

Image from iXimus via Pixabay

CoronaWatchNL

CoronaWatchNL is collective of researchers and volunteers in The Netherlands. We aim to make the reported number on COVID-19 disease in The Netherlands FAIR.

Help on this project is appreciated. We are looking for new datasets, data updates, graphs and maps. Please report issues in the Issue Tracker. Want to contribute? Please check out the help wanted tag in the Issue Tracker.

Please send an email to jonathandebruinos@gmail.com

jpvandervelden/CoronaWatchNL