Mortality Rates and Bolsa Familia Program Receipt, 2011–2015

Camila Bonfim's dataset on figshare contains mortality rates associated with receipt of Brazil's Bolsa Familia social welfare program from 2011 to 2015. The data is stored in a 5.5 KB XLS file. It was last updated on May 6, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing correlations between social program participation and mortality based on the described time-series data.
• Evaluating public health policy effectiveness over the 2011–2015 period mentioned in the description.
• Studying socioeconomic determinants of health using the described link between welfare receipt and mortality rates.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 5-year time range (2011–2015).
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• File size is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Camila Bonfim via figshare.

Time Range

2011–2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 20:20:08; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Brazil (inferred from the Bolsa Familia program).