Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations database
The Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations database () of the International Laboratory for Population and Health (ILPH) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) contains week-age-specific standardized death rates and crude death rates for the regions of Russia and the country as a whole in 2000-2021. The basis for the calculation of all indicators is the data of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service. The RusSTMF is aimed at specialists engaged in professional analysis of demographic indicators. The format of data allows its uploading into any system of statistical analysis
1. Database contents
The Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations database (RusSTMF) contains a series of standardized and crude death rates for men, women and both sexes for Russia as a whole and its regions for the period from 2000 to 2021.
All the output indicators presented in the database are calculated based on data of deaths registered by the Vital Registry Office. The weekly death counts are calculated based on depersonalized individual data provided by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) at the request of the HSE. Time coverage: 03.01.2000 (Week 1) – 31.12.2021 (Week 1148)
2. A brief description of the input data on deaths
Date of death: date of occurrence
Unit of time: week
First and last days of the week: Monday – Sunday
First and last week of the year: The weeks are organized according to ISO 8601:2004 guidelines. Each week of the year, including the first and last, contains 7 days. In order to get 7-day weeks, the days of previous years are included in this first week (if January 1 fell on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday) or in the last calendar week (if December 31 fell on Thursday, Friday or Saturday).
Age groups: the entire population
Sex: men, women, both sexes (men and women combined)
Restrictions and data changes: data on deaths in the Pskov region were excluded for weeks 9-13 of 2012
Note: Deaths with an unknown date of occurrence (unknown year, month, or day) account for about 0.3% of all deaths and are excluded from the calculation of week-age-specific and standardized death rates.
3. Description of the week-specific mortality rates data file
Week-specific standardized death rates for Russia as a whole and its regions are contained in a single data file presented in .csv format. The format of data allows its uploading into any system for statistical analysis. Each record (row) in the data file contains data for one calendar year, one week, one territory, one sex.
The decimal point is dot (.)
The first element of the row is the territory code ("PopCode" column), the second element is the year ("Year" column), the third element ("Week" column) is the week of the year, the fourth element ("Sex" column) is sex (F – female, M – male, B – both sexes combined). This is followed by a column "CDR" with the value of the crude death rate and "SDR" with the value of the standardized death rate. If the indicator cannot be calculated for some combination of year, sex, and territory, then the corresponding meaningful data elements in the data file are replaced with ".".
More details about this data project can be found in the recently published article: Shchur AE, Timonin SA, Churilova EV, Sergeev EV, Sokolova VV, Rodina OA, Shamsutdinov BA, Jdanov DA, Shkolnikov VM (2023) Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations Data Series. Population and Economics 7(3): 188-197. https://doi.org/10.3897/popecon.7.e114628
Data from the Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations database (RusSTMF) are provided to everyone free of charge.
The International Laboratory for Population and Health at the HSE asks you to comply with the rules for using RusSTMF, presented below:
1. All data from RusSTMF can be used only for research purposes. The use of RusSTMF data for income or for other commercial gain is not allowed.
2. Materials from RusSTMF may not be published in part or in whole, except for the case of citation specified in clause 3.
3. In all published articles, presentations, materials, and other works that present the results of research using data from RusSTMF, a reference to RusSTMF as a data source should be given.
When publishing the results, we recommend using the following citation:
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Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations database. International Laboratory for Population and Health. Available at https://demogr.hse.ru/russtmd (data downloaded on [date]). |
If a different data link format is used, please check that it includes the full name of the database (The Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations database) and the address of the database on the Internet.
4. The data cannot be transferred to third parties for use.
5. All the data provided, based on which standardized death rates were calculated, were thoroughly checked for errors. However, we do not accept responsibility for possible harm caused by the use of data. In particular, we are not responsible for any harm caused to the user, even if it happened by our mistake. We ask you to report any error you find in the data so that it can be corrected as soon as possible.
Russian Short-term Mortality Fluctuations database
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The RusSTMF team thanks Evgeny M.Andreev for his administrative support and encouragement as well as those HSE University staff who provided advice and assistance on other issues of project support.
We are grateful for our colleagues supplying data and/or expert advice or consultations:
- Sergei Timonin (Australian National University)
- Dmitri Jdanov (MPIDR, Germany)
- Vladimir M. Shkolnikov (MPIDR, Germany)
- Mikhail B. Denisenko (Vishnevsky Institute of Demography, HSE University)
- Tatiana L. Kharkova (Vishnevsky Institute of Demography, HSE University)
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