data: German definition of "fully vaccinated" changed on 2022-10-01

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data: German definition of "fully vaccinated" changed on 2022-10-01 #2729

Closed Fabian42 closed 2 years ago

Fabian42 commented 2 years ago

Country

Germany

Domain

Vaccinations

Which data is inaccurate or missing?

Germany no longer counts people with two doses (or a single-dose vaccine or recovered plus vaccinated or whatever else there is) as "fully vaccinated", but only people with at least one booster (usually three doses). The values at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owid/covid-19-data/master/public/data/vaccinations/vaccinations.csv did not change accordingly. There also seems to be no entry for this new definition, the closest would be "total_boosters", but that includes people with 4 doses twice.

Why do you think the data is inaccurate or missing?

Source: https://www.zusammengegencorona.de/faqs/corona-im-alltag/aktuelle-regelungen/#id-26b7f896-6703-5076-8bb6-c39344247e11

lucasrodes commented 2 years ago

Hi @Fabian42, Thanks for reporting.

We report our metrics, which we define here: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data#vaccinations.

We do this to ensure we can compare these metrics across different countries. You can read more at https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/issues/1791 or https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/pull/1866. Also, we don't plan to report boosters at a dose level but instead will report the aggregate (i.e. all booster doses) as the single metric total_boosters.

Having said this, I briefly checked, and our numbers match those from https://impfdashboard.de/:

people_vaccinated: 64,784,357 (~"Mindestens einmal Geimpfte")
people_fuly_vaccinated: 63,463,822 (~"Grundimmunisierte")
total_boosters: 59,668,286 (~"Geimpfte mit einer Auffrischungsimpfung" + "Geimpfte mit zwei Auffrischungsimpfungen")

Fabian42 commented 2 years ago

"Grundimmunisiert" does not mean "fully", it means "basic", so the two doses. That website does not actually mention the word" vollständig" anywhere.

But OK, the argument for comparability is better. I guess an even more detailed data set for all the different combinations would be even better, but much harder and in some cases impossible to obtain.

lucasrodes commented 2 years ago

I did not mean that "Grundimmunisierte" translates into "people fully vaccinated" in terms of language but in terms of the mapping between https://impfdashboard.de/ and our variable definitions.

Fabian42 commented 1 year ago

I found a more detailed sources for per-dose numbers in Germany: https://github.com/robert-koch-institut/COVID-19-Impfungen_in_Deutschland (linked here)

That doesn't help for this repository, but I wanted to link it in case anyone else here is looking for this. I'll use this as a source for my spreadsheet in the future.