This STATA dofile provides the syntax for the main analysis conducted in the article "Deaths during the first year of the COVID‑19 pandemic: insights from regional patterns in Germany and Poland" by Myck, Oczkowska, Garten, Krol, Brandt in BMC Public Health (DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14909-9). More details in the text file 'readme.txt'.