Data Resources on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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A number of national and international research projects are currently underway that empirically
record the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection is wide and ranges
from snapshots of surveys with self-selected samples, representative surveys, longitudinal studies,
experiments, etc..
IZA’s Research Data Center (IDSC) collects and curates the information on such new initiatives.
Projects with high research output based on number of IZA Discussion Papers or otherwise are
promoted especially as “featured resources” on the top of our website.
Please contact the IDSC of IZA for any suggestions of further content at
idsc@iza.org.
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Apple and Google Partner on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology
Technological DevelopmentApple and Google will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing.
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CanCovidData
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The goal of CanCovidData is to provide a collection of covid-19 data import functions for international and Canadian data, as well as some helper functions for data processing and graphing. R package which lines up with the official updates from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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Facebook Community Support
Social MediaFacebook's news site on new tools, and initiatives supporting health and economic relief efforts.
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Facebook Data for Good
Public Health and MedicineNew tools and surveys to help health researchers track and combat COVID-19.
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Google Health Trends API
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Google Health Trends API allows to measure the daily share of Google searches related to COVID-19 in each country, as well as globally. In contrast to the publicly available Google Trends database, Google Health Trends API comes with two advantages. First, the actual numbers are not scaled between 0 and 100 but instead, the values represent the share of Google searches that meet the query conditions as a share of all Google searches at a given date in a specific country. Thus, the variables are both more transparent in terms of construction and are continuous. Second, the scaling from 0 to 100 in publicly available Google Trends always depends on the countries and reference terms that are included. Google Health Trends API enables to achieve cross-country comparability without relying on reference countries. Furthermore, access to Google Health Trends API enables to query up to 30 search terms at a time. But Google Health Trends API does not have built-in translation capabilities.
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Google Trends: COVID-19 Related Search Trends
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This is how COVID-19 is being searched on Google.
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#14903
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
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#13776
COVID-19 and the Future of US Fertility: What Can We Learn from Google?
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#14946
COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
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#13204
COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
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#14904
E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance
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#13261
The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-At-Home Orders
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#13351
The Political Scar of Epidemics
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Vaccination Policy and Trust
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Homebase Real-Time Corona Virus Data on US Small Businesses
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Homebase (HB) data consists of daily records of volume of hours worked by employees, the number of businesses open at all, the number of employees working, and wages of employees, linked longitudinally to the establishment where they work and the firm that controls the establishment. The data is recorded in real-time through HB’s proprietary software and is used for payroll processing.
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The HB data also contains an industry category for each establishment, but the available categories do not directly line up with standard industry classification. However, HB establishment records maybe matched by name or address to other Points of Interest (POI), geographic information or standard industry classifications.
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Microsoft's Open Data Initiative
Social MediaMicrosoft has announced a global open data campaign to increase the value of open data for the community.
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OpenSAFELY
Technological DevelopmentOpenSAFELY is a new secure analytics platform for electronic health records in the UK NHS, created to deliver urgent results during the global COVID-19 emergency. It is now successfully delivering analyses across more than 24 million patients’ full pseudonymised primary care NHS records. All analytic software is open for security review, scientific review, and re-use. OpenSAFELY uses a new model for enhanced security and timely access to data: no transport large volumes of potentially disclosive pseudonymised patient data outside of the secure environments managed by the electronic health record software company; instead, trusted analysts can run large scale computation across near real-time pseudonymised patient records inside the data centre of the electronic health records software company.
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RDA COVID-19 Zotero Library Update
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19The RDA COVID-19 Zotero Library (Version 1.0) was released on 30th June 2020, supporting the RDA-COVID19 Data Sharing Recommendations and Guidelines for the following focus areas: clinical, community, epidemiology, Indigenous, legal and ethics, omics, social, and software.Version 1.1 was the result of continuous updates since then to support ongoing work and subsequent development of related supporting output and publications. Version 2.0 added a new focus area: 'vaccination'. Version 3.0, released on March 29, 2021, added another two new focus areas related to COVID-19: 'clinical trial ethics' and 'indoor air'. This is a curated library comprising approximately 2,000 references. It is not an indiscriminate listing of everything that has been published in these eleven focus areas. The library will continue to be updated as a green resource.
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Safegraph Shelter-In-Place Index
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people are currently engaging in social distancing. In order to understand what is actually occurring at a census block group level, SafeGraph is offering a temporary Social Distancing Metrics product. The data was generated using a panel of GPS pings from anonymous mobile devices. This product is delivered daily (3 days delayed from actual). Daily data is available going back to January 1, 2020.
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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19
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COVID-19 Mobility Policies Impacts: How Credible Are Difference-in-Differences Estimates?
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#13160
Did California's Shelter-In-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects
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Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Restart a COVID-19 Epidemic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
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Economics and Epidemics: Evidence from an Estimated Spatial Econ-SIR Model
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#13521
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large Cities
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#13670
The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19
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#13262
Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
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When Do Shelter-In-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity across States and Adoption Time
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#13388
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Survey of Acceptability of App-Based Contact Tracing in the UK, US, France, Germany and Italy
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The research project conducted a multi-country, large-scale (N = 5.995) study to measure public support for digital contact tracing of COVID-19 infections. The study measured intentions to use a contact-tracing app across different installation regimes (voluntary installation vs. automatic installation by mobile phone providers), and studied how these intentions vary across individuals and countries.
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Survey Research Methods During the COVID-19 Crisis
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19SRM presents a special issue on survey research during the COViD-19. The issue collects four types of papers: (1) Commentaries about ongoing research using surveys, or related methods. (2) Proposals of designs to study Coronavirus-related questions using survey research, (3) New research initiatives related to the pandemic that already started. (4) Descriptions of the adaptation of ongoing surveys (PSID, Share, Understanding Society, etc.) to the lockdown policies. In order to allow a swift publication of the papers, SRM changed its standard reviewing process and suspended the possibility for a revise and resubmit for papers that could make it into the issue with more rounds of revisions. The papers are considered to be contributions to ongoing debates instead of decisive research papers. Therefore they are published together with commentaries by peers, and sometimes with responses by the authors of the main article.
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Tencent
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Location-based mobile phone records from Tencent, a market leader in communications software in China,
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The Verge
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19A guide to the COVID-19 pandemic. The science, the tech response and what one can do. American technology news website operated by Vox Media.
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TWD R Resources on COVID-19
Technological DevelopmentBest R resources (Shiny app, R packages, code and data) about COVID-19 Coronavirus that you can use freely to analyze the disease outbreak
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