R/data.R
covus_race.RdThe COVID Racial Data Tracker advocates for, collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic across the United States. It’s a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
covus_raceA tibble with 47,880 rows and 7 columns
datedate Data reported as of this date
statecharacter State
groupcharacter Racial group
casesinteger Total cases, count
deathsinteger Total deaths, count
hospinteger Total hospitalizations, count
https://covidtracking.com/race
Table: Data summary
| Name | covus_race |
| Number of rows | 47880 |
| Number of columns | 7 |
| _______________________ | |
| Column type frequency: | |
| Date | 1 |
| character | 2 |
| numeric | 4 |
| ________________________ | |
| Group variables | None |
Variable type: Date
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | min | max | median | n_unique |
| date | 0 | 1 | 2020-04-12 | 2021-03-07 | 2020-09-23 | 95 |
Variable type: character
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | min | max | empty | n_unique | whitespace |
| state | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 0 |
| group | 0 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
Variable type: numeric
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | mean | sd | p0 | p25 | p50 | p75 | p100 | hist |
| cases | 15684 | 0.67 | 30240.68 | 103176.64 | 0 | 568 | 3661 | 21026 | 2619476 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| deaths | 17686 | 0.63 | 708.93 | 1836.84 | -1 | 12 | 68 | 440 | 24402 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| hosp | 37253 | 0.22 | 2077.78 | 4654.37 | 0 | 67 | 345 | 1716 | 41099 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| tests | 43549 | 0.09 | 349773.42 | 1269936.08 | 0 | 6298 | 36108 | 199214 | 18567612 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
The group variable is coded as follows:
| groups |
| White |
| Black |
| Latino |
| Asian |
| AI/AN |
| NH/PI |
| Multiracial |
| Other |
| Unknown |
AI/AN is American Indian/Alaska Native. NH/PI is Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. State-level counts should be handled with care, given the widely varying population distribution of people of different racial backgrounds by state.