Lars Schöbitz is now the maintainer of the package. Yash Dubey remains an author, and ETH Zurich is recorded as funder.
Documentation and metadata fixes
Corrected the data dictionary (data-raw/dictionary.csv) and the dataset documentation (R/unhcrwash.R) to match the actual shipped column names. 25 of 27 variable names previously referred to the original UNHCR field names rather than the renamed columns in the published data.
Corrected the dataset description across the package: the data covers 227 sites and 36 countries (previously stated as 191 sites and 29 countries).
Kept package metadata in data/metadata/ in sync with the corrected dictionary and counts.
Data source status
Documented that the upstream UNHCR WASH dashboard has been retired. The former source URL (https://wash.unhcr.org/dashboard/data/unhcr_irhis_all_data.csv) now redirects to a handbook page, and the data has moved into the login-gated iRHIS portal (https://his.unhcr.org) under UNHCR’s General Policy on Personal Data Protection and Privacy (UNHCR/HCP/2022/02).
As a result, this dataset is a fixed historical snapshot (2013 to 2024) and can no longer be regenerated. data-raw/data_processing.R is retained for provenance and now stops with an explanatory error if run.
Clarified that the data in this package is site-level aggregate WASH indicators. It contains no personal data and poses no data-protection concern.