Subject	Public health
Specific subject area	Health education, health promotion
Type of data	Primary data Tables Figure
How data were acquired	Data was collected using an online survey platform (Google Forms). The questionnaire is provided as a supplementary file.
Data format	Raw Analyzed
Parameters for data collection	The hospital staff who have received COVID-19 vaccine were identified through medical records review at Dr. M. Djamil General Hospital Padang, a national referral hospital in Indonesia. A total of 840 hospital staff were included to have survey assessing COVID-19 vaccine side effects, i.e., swelling, redness, itching, fever, headache, muscle pain, fatigue, coughing, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, breathlessness, joint pain, fainted, anaphylactic reaction, itch, and swollen lymph nodes.
Description of data collection	The data was collected through an online questionnaire, which was sent to the hospital staff in a national referral hospital in Indonesia through convenience sampling technique.
Data source location	Region: Southeast Asia Country: Indonesia
Data accessibility	The dataset is provided as a supplementary file.