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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Development Data Lab COVID-19 In India
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19DDL COVID India comprises an administrative data backbone with local estimates of health system capacity and local economic conditions. All data will be provided with consistent location identifiers (state, district, etc.) to allow for data to be easily merged and analyzed together.
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This effort integrates three types of data in a common geographic frame: (i) baseline data on health, economic conditions, demographics, and state capacity; (ii) surveys collecting data on the rapidly evolving conditions on the ground; and (iii) real time data on cases; hospital and clinic beds; population age distributions and pre-existing conditions; urbanization; population density, infections and deaths, and policy responses.
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EPA Air Quality System (AQS)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Air Quality System (AQS) contains ambient air pollution data collected by EPA, state, local, and tribal air pollution control agencies from over thousands of monitors. AQS also contains meteorological data, descriptive information about each monitoring station (including its geographic location and its operator), and data quality assurance/quality control information.
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Facebook’s Movements Range Data
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The dataset uses the location information of users who enable location services on their mobile Facebook app. The mobility metric is the proportional change in the average number of 0.6 km by 0.6 km tiles visited during a 24 hour period compared to same day of the week in February 2020.
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Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Supported by Google Jigsaw, the GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.
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Open Access Epidemiologic Data and an Interactive Dashboard to Monitor the COVID-19 Outbreak in Canada
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group is collecting publicly available information on confirmed and presumptive positive cases during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in Canada. Data are entered in a spreadsheet with each line representing a unique case, including age, sex, health region location, and history of travel where available. Sources are included as a reference for each entry. All data are exclusively collected from publicly available sources including government reports and news media.
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Safegraph Places Weekly Patterns
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Base information such as location name, address, category, and brand association for points of interest (POIs) where people spend time or money. Place traffic and demographic aggregations that answer: how often people visit, how long they stay, where they came from, where else they go, and more. Available for ~4.4MM POI. Safegraph updates the Places dataset usually every month with the past month's openings and closings and maintains a persistent key across releases. Safegraph is only temporarily offering the Weekly Patterns dataset which is updated on a weekly basis.
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Weekly Patterns is very similar to Safegraph's normal Patterns product with some differences:
1) Each delivery of Weekly Patterns covers one week starting Monday and ending end of day on Sunday. The data will be available three days later on Wednesday of each week.
2) In Weekly Patterns, Safegraph includes a visits by each hour column to enable to get a more detailed view of the week.
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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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Teralytics Mobility Data
Technological DevelopmentProprietary data on daily individual movements which contain the number of journeys within and across mobile phone locations. A journey ends when the use remains in place for at least one hour. Short journeys with a distance of less 2 kilometers are not captured.
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The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Dataset on India - SHRUG COVID-19 platform
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Development Data Lab COVID India comprises an administrative data backbone with local estimates of health system capacity and local economic conditions. All data are provided with consistent location identifiers (state, district, etc.) to allow for data to be easily merged and analyzed together.
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This effort integrates three types of data in a common geographic frame: (i) baseline data on health, economic conditions, demographics, and state capacity; (ii) surveys collecting data on the rapidly evolving conditions on the ground; and (iii) real time data on cases, policy responses, etc.
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UK Time-Use Diary Survey: The Click and Drag Diary Instrument (CaDDI)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19In 2016 the Centre for Time Use Research has developed a new online Click and Drag Diary Instrument (CaDDI), collecting population-representative (quota sample) from a market research panel across 9 developed countries including the UK and the USA. They have fielded the same instrument with a similar UK sample, in May-June 2020 -at the peak period of lockdown-, providing a real-time comparison with 2016 behavior. Diaries were collected on 2 or 3 days per respondent (including one weekday and one weekend day), yielding approximately 1,000 diaries in each survey. Response quality was comparable to other on-line diaries, with a mean of 17 distinct episodes recorded each day, and with unusually low levels of missing primary activity,location and co-presence data.
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unacast Social Distancing Scoreboard
Public Health and MedicineUsing the location data from cell phones, Unacast calculates the average visitation for each day of the week prior to the COVID-19 outbreak (defined as March8th and earlier) as a baseline. Unacast then compares those baselines to visits on the corresponding days of the week post-pandemic, i.e., compare Saturdays to Saturdays. Importantly, the scores express the rate of change in how visit counts responded to the virus spreading, rather than absolute numbers of visits.
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#13282
COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data
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#13231
Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?
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#13255
On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution
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#13574
Social Learning along International Migrant Networks
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#13234
Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust
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#13282
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USAFacts, Coronavirus Locations
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This county visualization is unique to USAFacts and is updated with the most recent data as frequently as possible. This interactive feature aggregates data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state- and local-level public health agencies. County-level data is confirmed by referencing state and local agencies directly. Confirmed cases, deaths, and per capita adjustments reflect cumulative totals since January 22nd, 2020.
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#14182
Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival
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#13334
COVID-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers
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#13468
Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Metropolitan Status and Size
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#13802
Employment Opportunities and High School Completion during the COVID-19 Recession
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#13440
Urban Density and COVID-19
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#14182