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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  • NIH Repository of COVID-19 Research Tools

    Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19

    This page provides a list of COVID-19 related measurement protocols (CRFs, DCFs, instruments, surveys, questionnaires) that are currently in use. The creators hope that investigators will consider choosing from these protocols rather than developing new ones. The source of each protocol has been verified and contact information is provided in case additional information is needed.

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  • OpenSAFELY

    Technological Development

    OpenSAFELY 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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  • SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive

    Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19

    This searchable, open-access archive houses probability-based surveys on the COVID-19 pandemic conducted in the United States and internationally. Source materials are available via the open-access SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive, with full-text search and retrieval of individual questions and related materials.
    The archive contains more than 350 surveys from the United States and 35 other countries (July 2020), It supports the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), an expert group convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, to connect policymakers, researchers and the public with critical social, behavioral and economic inquiry relating to the pandemic.

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