Sleep Quality and Characteristics of Medical Students in Lima, Peru (n=171)

Lima, Peru is the location for this dataset of 171 medical students from a private university. It contains a bivariate analysis of sample characteristics according to sleep quality. The dataset was authored by Alvaro F. Montalvo-Peralta and last updated on June 1, 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify demographic or lifestyle factors associated with poor sleep quality among medical students.
• Compare sleep quality distributions across different student characteristics mentioned in the description.
• Use as a baseline or comparison dataset for similar studies on student populations in other regions.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• Focuses on a specific, defined population of 171 medical students.
• Analysis is bivariate, suggesting structured comparisons between variables.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column definitions are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope and number of variables.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Alvaro F. Montalvo-Peralta.

Collection Method

Likely collected via survey or study of medical students, as implied by the bivariate analysis description.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 17:45:50; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lima, Peru.