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The goal of roadtrafficdeaths is to provide a dataset of death certificates from road traffic crashes that happened in Brazil, from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

The dataset is provided in the data.table format. To check each variable, use ?rtdeaths.

Installation

You can install the current version of roadtrafficdeaths from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("pabsantos/roadtrafficdeaths")

Example

This is a basic example which shows how to use this package:

library(roadtrafficdeaths)

str(rtdeaths)
#> Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':   936969 obs. of  18 variables:
#>  $ cod_modal          : chr  "V8" "V8" "V8" "V8" ...
#>  $ modal_vitima       : chr  "Outros" "Outros" "Outros" "Outros" ...
#>  $ data_ocorrencia    : Date, format: "1996-01-27" "1996-01-11" ...
#>  $ ano_ocorrencia     : int  1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 ...
#>  $ idade_vitima       : num  27 20 19 41 41 36 17 63 55 7 ...
#>  $ faixa_etaria_vitima: Factor w/ 17 levels "0 a 4 anos","5 a 9 anos",..: 6 5 4 9 9 8 4 13 12 2 ...
#>  $ sexo_vitima        : chr  "Masculino" "Masculino" "Masculino" "Masculino" ...
#>  $ escolaridade_vitima: chr  "Nenhuma" NA NA NA ...
#>  $ raca_vitima        : chr  NA NA NA NA ...
#>  $ ocup_cbo_vitima    : chr  "55100" "00200" "00600" "00200" ...
#>  $ cod_municipio_ocor : chr  "110010" "110020" "110010" "110010" ...
#>  $ nome_regiao_ocor   : chr  "Norte" "Norte" "Norte" "Norte" ...
#>  $ cod_municipio_res  : chr  "110010" "110020" "110020" "110020" ...
#>  $ nome_regiao_res    : chr  "Norte" "Norte" "Norte" "Norte" ...
#>  $ nome_uf_ocor       : chr  "Rondônia" "Rondônia" "Rondônia" "Rondônia" ...
#>  $ nome_municipio_ocor: chr  "Guajará-Mirim" "Porto Velho" "Guajará-Mirim" "Guajará-Mirim" ...
#>  $ nome_uf_res        : chr  "Rondônia" "Rondônia" "Rondônia" "Rondônia" ...
#>  $ nome_municipio_res : chr  "Guajará-Mirim" "Porto Velho" "Porto Velho" "Porto Velho" ...
#>  - attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr>

Credits

The authors of this package would like to thank the authors of microdatasus:

Saldanha, R. D. F., Bastos, R. R., & Barcellos, C. (2019). Microdatasus: pacote para download e pré-processamento de microdados do Departamento de Informática do SUS (DATASUS) (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00032419

Citation

If you use this package, please cite as follow:

citation("roadtrafficdeaths")
#> To cite package 'roadtrafficdeaths' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Santos PAB, Saraiva JPM (2023). _roadtrafficdeaths: Road Traffic
#>   Deaths Data from Brazil_.
#>   https://pabsantos.github.io/roadtrafficdeaths/,
#>   https://github.com/pabsantos/roadtrafficdeaths.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {roadtrafficdeaths: Road Traffic Deaths Data from Brazil},
#>     author = {Pedro Augusto Borges Santos and João Pedro Melani Saraiva},
#>     year = {2023},
#>     note = {https://pabsantos.github.io/roadtrafficdeaths/, https://github.com/pabsantos/roadtrafficdeaths},
#>   }