gaps in people_vaccinated and people_fully_vaccinated

[czka]

I realize that some gaps in people_vaccinated and people_fully_vaccinated are inevitable due to varying quality of data sources, but some make me wonder if that's always really the culprit.

Eg. Luxembourg is missing nearly 8 months of people_fully_vaccinated data, Singapore and Iceland who I suppose should have decent repoting standards have some gaps in both people_vaccinated and people_fully_vaccinated, Andorra and San Marino have more gaps than data there, Croatia has a strange 4-weeks gap in people_fully_vaccinated, Brazil has got a 2-week gap in both data series recently, etc.

Below are listed all such gaps I spotted, rounded down to a weekly resolution. Could you verify if really neither of these could be due to OWID's processing rather than any other issues?

Albania 24.01-07.02 people_vaccinated 28.02-16.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Andorra 28.02-14.03 people_vaccinated 21.03-25.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 23.05-06.06 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 04.07-18.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 01.08-26.09 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 03.10-31.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Antigua and Barbuda 21.02-21.03 people_vaccinated 04.04-18.04 people_vaccinated 25.04-09.05 people_vaccinated 25.04-09.05 people_vaccinated 20.06-11.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Armenia 04.04-09.05 people_vaccinated 06.06-20.06 people_vaccinated 27.06-11.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 26.09-17.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Azerbaijan 17.01-07.03 people_vaccinated 24.10-14.11 people_vaccinated

Belarus 21.02-14.03 people_vaccinated 14.03-23.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 13.06-18.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 01.08-15.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 24.10-07.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Belize 22.08-05.09 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 10.10-31.10 people_vaccinated 10.10-14.11 people_fully_vaccinated

Bermuda 14.02-28.02 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 11.04-25.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 02.05-16.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 20.06-18.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Bolivia 26.09-31.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.02-18.04 people_vaccinated 02.05-23.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 30.05-08.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 22.08-31.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Brazil 31.10-14.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Bulgaria 18.07-01.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 22.08-14.11 people_vaccinated

Costa Rica 01-08-15.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 24.10-07.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Croatia 12.09-10.10 people_fully_vaccinated

Cyprus 07.03-04.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Dominican Republic 04.04-18.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Egypt 31.01-09.05 people_vaccinated

El Salvador 28.02-14.03 people_vaccinated

French Polynesia 04.07-18.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 07.11-21.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Georgia 14.03-04.04 people_vaccinated 11.07-25.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 24.10-07.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Greenland 31.01-07.03 people_vaccinated 07.03-11.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 07.11-28.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Iceland 08.08-29.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Iran 21.02-18.04 people_vaccinated 30.05-13.06 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 04.07-18.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 10.10-24.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Jamaica 18.04-16.05 people_vaccinated 13.06-11.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 25.07-08.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Kazakhstan 31.01-28.02 people_vaccinated 28.02-11.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Kosovo 04.04-18.04 people_vaccinated 25.04-06.06 people_vaccinated 20.06-04.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Kuwait 21.02-04.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Kyrgyzstan 28.03-02.05 people_vaccinated 02.05-01.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Macao 03.10-17.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 07.11-28.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Luxembourg 18.04-07.11 people_fully_vaccinated

Mauritius 07.02-16.05 people_vaccinated 23.05-06.06 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 27.06-18.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Moldova 08.08-14.11 people_vaccinated 08.08-26.09 people_fully_vaccinated

Monaco 07.03-18.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 09.05-30.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 13.06-27.06 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 08.08-22.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Nicaragua 07.03-18.07 people_vaccinated 18.07-22.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 10.10-21.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

North Macedonia 21.02-04.04 people_vaccinated

Oman 31.01-14.02 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 28.02-14.03 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 25.04-13.06 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 20.06-11.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 25.07-15.08 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 05.09-19.09 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 03.10-17.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 31.10-28.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Paraguay 17.10-31.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Philippines 15.08-14.11 people_vaccinated

Qautar 21.02-02.05 people_vaccinated

Romania 03.10-21.11 people_vaccinated

Russia 17.01-07.03 people_vaccinated 21.03-04.04 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 17.10-31.10 people_fully_vaccinated

San Marino 09.05-23.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 20.06-03.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 10.10-24.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 07.11-21.11 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Serbia 14.02-28.02 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 20.06-11.07 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Seychelles 11.07-31.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Singapore 21.02-07.03 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 18.04-16.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

South Africa 18.04-02.05 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 23.05-11.07 people_fully_vaccinated

Thailand 14.03-28.03 people_vaccinated 26.09-10.10 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated

Uzbekistan 02.05-16.05 people_vaccinated 30.05-08.08 people_vaccinated 30.05-12.09 people_vaccinated, people_fully_vaccinated 12.09-26.09 people_vaccinated

[edomt]

Hi @czka

For many countries, some information is not available due to:

• The source not reporting this metric at all
• Or the source reporting the data in a way that makes it impossible to calculate one of the metrics. This is often the cases when a 1-dose vaccine (such as J&J) is used in conjunction with 2-dose vaccines, but the source doesn't report detailed data on doses by manufacturer.

What you see in our database at the moment is the best information at our disposal, for all of these countries (if we had more, we would happily publish it). If you happen to find more data for one or more of these countries, please feel free to open a new issue or pull request with the new data.

[czka]

Hi @edomt

Thanks. BTW, do you maybe know why Luxembourg doesn't have any record in people_fully_vaccinated between 2021-04-14 and 2021-11-06 but has a single 1 record of 418437 on 2021-11-07 in that column? As per https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/issues/1963 shouldn't it have no data after April in that column at all?

[edomt]

Hi @czka

Yes, that's because the open-data file published by Luxembourg doesn't let us calculate people_fully_vaccinated, so we sometimes pull the latest figure from the daily PDF reports so that the variable is not empty. This is mainly to make sure that Google doesn't display a very old value for people_fully_vaccinated in its search results (which are directly connected to our files).