NIH Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Data Sets

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Health and Human Services

Version:  View help for Version V2

Name File Type Size Last Modified
  Data-Files 03/06/2025 09:11:PM
  Supplementary-Information 03/06/2025 07:43:PM

Project Citation: 

United States Department of Health and Human Services. NIH Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Data Sets. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-04-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E221805V2

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title NIH Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Data Sets
Summary:  View help for Summary
Includes Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Data Files from 1990 to January 2025. A reproduceable Rmd file, website screenshots, and documentation have been included in the Supplementary Information folder.


From the VAERS Data Sets website:

VAERS data CSV and compressed (ZIP) files are available for download in the table below. For information about VAERS data, please view the VAERS Data Use Guide [PDF - 310KB], which contains the following information:
  • Important information about VAERS from the FDA
  • Brief description of VAERS
  • Cautions on interpreting VAERS data
  • Definitions of terms
  • Description of files
  • List of commonly used abbreviations
Select the desired time interval to download VAERS data. Each data set is available for download as a compressed (ZIP) file or as individual CSV files. Each compressed file contains the three CSV files listed for a specific data set.

Last updated: February 7, 2025.

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Microdata: Yes
Level of Analysis: Individual - Reports
Variables Present: Yes
File Layout: .csv
Codebook: Yes
Methods: No
Weights (with appropriate documentation): N/A
Publications: No
Aggregate Data: No

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms vaccines
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1990 – 1/2025


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Published Versions

V2 [2026-04-21]

V1 [2025-03-07]

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