The COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group is collecting publicly available information on confirmed and presumptive positive cases during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in Canada. Data are entered in a spreadsheet with each line representing a unique case, including age, sex, health region location, and history of travel where available. Sources are included as a reference for each entry. All data are exclusively collected from publicly available sources including government reports and news media. We aim to continue making updates daily.
Detailed information about our data collection methodology and sources, answers to frequently asked data questions, specific data notes, and more information about the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group is available on our website.
We have also created an interactive dashboard for up-to-date visual analytics and epidemiological analyses. This is available for public use at: https://art-bd.shinyapps.io/covid19canada/
Berry I, Soucy J-PR, Tuite A, Fisman D. Open access epidemiologic data and an interactive dashboard to monitor the COVID-19 outbreak in Canada. CMAJ. 2020 Apr 14;192(15):E420. doi: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.75262
The full dataset may be downloaded in CSV format from this repository. The full dataset is also available in JSON format from our API. A subset of the data are available on our public case spreadsheet (direct download link) and our public mortality, testing, recovery spreadsheet.
- Codebook: codebook.csv
- Cases: cases.csv
- Mortality: mortality.csv
- Date and time of update: update_time.txt
- Daily and cumulative cases: timeseries_hr/cases_timeseries_hr.csv
- Daily and cumulative mortality: timeseries_hr/mortality_timeseries_hr.csv
- Daily and cumulative cases: timeseries_prov/cases_timeseries_prov.csv
- Daily and cumulative mortality: timeseries_prov/mortality_timeseries_prov.csv
- Daily and cumulative recovered: timeseries_prov/recovered_timeseries_prov.csv
- Daily and cumulative testing: timeseries_prov/testing_timeseries_prov.csv
- Current and change in active cases: timeseries_prov/active_timeseries_prov.csv
- Daily and cumulative cases: timeseries_canada/cases_timeseries_canada.csv
- Daily and cumulative mortality: timeseries_canada/mortality_timeseries_canada.csv
- Daily and cumulative recovered: timeseries_canada/recovered_timeseries_canada.csv
- Daily and cumulative testing: timeseries_canada/testing_timeseries_canada.csv
- Current and change in active cases: timeseries_canada/active_timeseries_canada.csv
- Correspondence between health region names used in our dataset and HRUID values given in Esri Canada's health region map, with 2018 population values: other/hr_map.csv
- Correspondece between province names used in our dataset and full province names and two-letter abbreviations: prov_map.csv
- Correspondence between ages given in the individual-level case data and age groups displayed on the data dashboard: other/age_map_cases.csv
- Correspondence between ages given in the individual-level mortality data and age groups displayed on the data dashboard: other/age_map_mortality.csv
- Data update (script used to prepare the data update each day): scripts/data_update.R
- Data update validation (script used to help check the data update each day prior to release): scripts/data_update_validation.R
- Functions for data update validation: scripts/data_update_validation_funs.R
- API testing (verify consistency between GitHub data and data returned by API): scripts/api_test.R
We want to thank all individuals and organizations across Canada who have been willing and able to report data in as open and timely a manner as possible.
Please see below for a recommended citation of this dataset. A number of individuals have contributed to the specific data added here and their names and details are listed below, as well as on our [website] (https://opencovid.ca/about/).
| Name | Role | Organization | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isha Berry | Founder | University of Toronto | isha.berry@mail.utoronto.ca | @ishaberry2 |
| Jean-Paul R. Soucy | Founder | University of Toronto | jeanpaul.soucy@mail.utoronto.ca | @JPSoucy |
| Meghan O'Neill | Data Lead | University of Toronto | meghan.oneill@utoronto.ca | @_MeghanONeill |
| Shelby Sturrock | Data Lead | University of Toronto | shelby.sturrock@mail.utoronto.ca | @shelbysturrock |
| James E. Wright | Data Lead | SickKids | jamese.wright@sickkids.ca | @JWright159 |
| Kamal Acharya | Contributor | University of Guelph | acharyak@uoguelph.ca | @Kamalraj_ach |
| Gabrielle Brankston | Contributor | University of Guelph | brankstg@uoguelph.ca | @GBrankston |
| Vinyas Harish | Contributor | University of Toronto | v.harish@mail.utoronto.ca | @VinyasHarish |
| Kathy Kornas | Contributor | University of Toronto | kathy.kornas@utoronto.ca | |
| Nika Maani | Contributor | University of Toronto | nika.maani@mail.utoronto.ca | |
| Thivya Naganathan | Contributor | University of Guelph | tnaganat@uoguelph.ca | |
| Lindsay Obress | Contributor | University of Guelph | lobress@uoguelph.ca | |
| Tanya Rossi | Contributor | University of Guelph | rossit@uoguelph.ca | @DrTanyaRossi |
| Alison Simmons | Contributor | University of Toronto | alison.simmons@mail.utoronto.ca | @alisonesimmons |
| Matthew Van Camp | Contributor | University of Guelph | vancampm@uoguelph.ca | |
| Wendy Xie | Contributor | University of Guelph | xxie03@uoguelph.ca | @XiaotingXie |