data: COVID19 vaccines (Peru)

[jmcastagnetto]

Country

Peru

Domain

Vaccinations

Which data is inaccurate or missing?

The data published as of Jan 2023 by MINSA, seems to have some inconsistencies. Even when correcting using the latest population estimates for 2023 (from: https://www.minsa.gob.pe/reunis/data/poblacion_estimada.asp and https://cloud.minsa.gob.pe/s/XJ3NoG3WsxgF6H8), for first dosis it gives values over 100% (e.g. 100.6%) for the 18-24 age range.

This inconsistency will be reflected in the data that is currently been published in my repo (https://github.com/jmcastagnetto/covid-19-peru-vacunas/) that OWID is using as source.

Why do you think the data is inaccurate or missing?

Percentage > 100% for the 18-24 age range (vide supra).

Will check with the people at MINSA to inquire if they know which could be the source of the discrepancy. One thing I am not sure is that if the population estimates include information about immigrants to Peru.

This heads up is mainly so @lucasrodes knows about this inconsistency in the COVID-19 vaccination data.

[lucasrodes]

As always, thanks for the heads up, @jmcastagnetto ー appreciate it.

We've had similar cases for other countries/nations (e.g. Gibraltar). Let's wait and see what is their response.

We have a small section under our FAQs talking about this:

The population estimates we use to calculate per-capita metrics are all based on the last revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects. In a few cases, we use other sources when the figures provided by the UN differ substantially from reliable and more recent national estimates. Additionally, it’s important to bear in mind that in some territories, vaccination coverage may include non-residents (such as tourists and foreign workers). For these reasons, per-capita metrics may sometimes exceed 100%.

[jmcastagnetto]

@lucasrodes

A quick heads-up. Since at least 2023-02-06, the COVID-19 vaccination data seems to be lost or unavailable at MINSA, Peru.

When trying to manually access the data, the error message below appears:

I've tried the two distinct URLs that have COVID-19 vaccination data (in differently structured formats): https://www.datosabiertos.gob.pe/dataset/vacunaci%C3%B3n-contra-covid-19-ministerio-de-salud-minsa, and https://www.datosabiertos.gob.pe/dataset/vacunacion

Not sure when that will be solved. Will keep you appraised.

[jmcastagnetto]

@lucasrodes

MINSA fixed the issue with the publication of the data, but is now storing the CSV file as a 7Zip file, inside a ZIP file (???).

Modified my processing code to account for the new way the data is been published, and have just tested manually that it all works, see for example: jmcastagnetto/covid-19-peru-vacunas@2d45f01

Sorry I could not do this earlier, but I was away on a work trip.

[jmcastagnetto]

@lucasrodes A quick heads up. The automated processing I was running on AWS is failing because of outages in the region and availability zone where it was running. For now I have stopped the automated updates, and will switch to running the update on Sundays (manually) to pick up the changes, until I get the AWS issues sorted out.

[jmcastagnetto]

@lucasrodes For the last few months, MINSA was no longer updating the COVID-19 vaccination data, and for the last month the archive that is published is truncated and contains nothing. I've contacted repeatedly people at MINSA, but so far, no response or change.

Bottomline: Data for Peru is not up to date and I have no idea when it will be.