Replication package: Inpatient occupancy and the seasonality of emergency department waiting times — a five-region panel analysis of mainland Portugal, 2016–2025

Replication package (data snapshot, code, outputs and logs) for: Lourenço A, Santana R. Inpatient occupancy and the seasonality of emergency department waiting times: a five-region panel analysis of mainland Portugal, 2016–2025. Manuscript under peer review, 2026.

The archive contains a snapshot of the six open datasets retrieved from the SNS Transparency Portal of the Portuguese Ministry of Health (https://transparencia.sns.gov.pt) between 18 and 22 April 2026; the analytical panel (five regional health administrations plus the national series, 110 months); the Python and Stata code; and the logs of the runs reported in the manuscript. The entry point is 03_stata/replication_emj.do. See README.md inside the archive.

Version v1.1. README revised only: neutral manuscript status, correspondence between the labels used in the code and the manuscript's Results subsections and Additional files, listing of four scripts and outputs that version 1.0 contained but did not list, and removal of the description of a folder that was not part of the deposit. Every other file is byte-identical to version 1.0 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22976084).