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qechairquality

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Overview

This packages contains data collected as part a research study at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre Malawi. Particulate matter measurements (PM 2.5 & PM 10) were taken in 5-minute intervals for at eight sensor locations over two months.

Manuscript

This data was used for a manuscript prepared for a journal. The reproducible manuscript can be found at https://github.com/Global-Health-Engineering/manuscript-qechairquality (Schöbitz et al. 2023).

Installation

You can install the development version of qechairquality from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Global-Health-Engineering/qechairquality")

Alternatively, you can download the individual datasets as a CSV or XLSX file from the table below.

dataset CSV XLSX
qechairquality Download CSV Download XLSX
locations Download CSV Download XLSX

Data

The package provides access to two dataset.

library(qechairquality)

The qechairquality data set has 4 variables and 203806 observations. For an overview of the variable names, see the following table.

qechairquality
variable_name variable_type description
date_time dttm Timestamp of the air quality measurement.
location character Label for sensor location.
indicator character Air quality measurement indicator (pm2.5 and pm10).
value double Measured value in µg/m3.
locations
variable_name variable_type description
location character Descriptive name of the location.
long double Longitude coordinate.
lat double Latitude coordinate.
type character Type of location.

License

Data are available as CC-BY.

References

Schöbitz, Lars, Elizabeth Tilley, Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Saloni Vijay, and Hope Chilunga. 2023. Manuscript: "’It Is Unbearable to Breath Here’: Air Quality, Open Incineration, and Misinformation in Blantyre, Malawi". Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7841221.