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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ActiveConclusion COVID-19 Mobility Data Aggregator
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Scraper of Google, Apple and Waze COVID-19 Mobility Reports
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Apple Mobility Reports
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Changes in requests for directions by transportation type for all available countries/regions and cities. Reports are published daily and reflect requests for directions in Apple Maps.
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Baidu Maps
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Daily population flow data from Baidu that proxies for the total intensity of migration from and into other cities in China. Originally developed to track population movements out of Wuhan and the early spread of the coronavirus helping epidemiologists build an approximate picture of people’s migration with some carrying coronavirus. (service no longer active, in Chinese).
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#13749
Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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#13165
Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China
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#15038
Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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#15290
Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
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#14710
Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?
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#13749
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Cuebiq COVID-19 Mobility Insights
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Cuebiq makes its anonymized mobility data and data expertise available to trusted researchers of COVID-19 to study aggregate human mobility patterns as COVID-19 spreads, the secondary impacts of the disease and health interventions, and to model the possible spread of the disease based on historic mobility patterns.
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Data Sets for COVID-19 Research on Google Cloud Platform
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19In an effort to help combat COVID-19, Google created a COVID-19 Public Datasets program to make data more accessible to researchers, data scientists and analysts. The program will host a repository of public datasets that relate to the COVID-19 crisis and make them free to access and analyze. These include datasets from the New York Times, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Google, Global Health Data from the World Bank, and OpenStreetMap.
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Economic Tracker of Opportunity Insights
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker (https://tracktherecovery.org) combines anonymized data from leading private companies – from credit card processors to payroll firms – to provide a real-time picture of indicators such as employment rates, consumer spending, and job postings across counties, industries, and income groups.
The data were made freely available in order to assist in efforts to inform the public, policymakers, and researchers about the real-time state of the economy and the effects of COVID-19.- Geocoded geographic identifier;
- spending data from Affinity Solutions;
- job postings data from Burning Glass Technologies;
- COVID cases, deaths, tests, and vaccination numbers from the CDC;
- GPS mobility from Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports;
- employment levels from Paychex, Intuit, Earnin and Kronos;
- unemployment insurance claims data from the Department of Labor;
- small business openings and revenue data from Womply;
- online math learning data from Zearn;
- key state-level policy dates relevant for changes in other series trends and values.
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Enel X Mobility Map
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19City Analytics COVID-19 - Mobility Map was developed by Enel X to facilitate the management of the Covid-19 epidemic containment measures, and made available to public administrations, institutions, companies and citizens for free until Jun 30th 2020, considering the current emergency situation.
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percentage change in the number of trips compared to the same day in the previous week and to a reference period before the emergency
percentage variation in total kilometres travelled compared to the same day in the previous week and to a reference period before the emergency
entry and exit flows in the reference area.
The data is available in regional, state and municipal scale.
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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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First Registration of Cars
Economic DevelopmentFirst registration of cars March 2019 to March 2020 from the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt - Federal Motor Transport Authority (in German).
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Flightradar24 Flight Tracking Statistics
Economic DevelopmentFlightradar24 flight tracking statistics for commercial and non-commercial flights.
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Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Google COVID-19 community mobility reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19.
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Why is this resource interesting?"The Google COVID-19 mobility reports aggregate anonymized sets of data from users’ mobile device location history. The mobility index measures how visits to, or length of stay at, different types of location change over time compared to a baseline period corresponding to January 3 - February 6, 2020. There are six location categories: (i) retail and recreation, (ii) grocery and pharmacy, (iii) parks (public gardens, dog parks, beaches, etc.), (iv) transit stations (public transport hubs such as subway, bus, train stations), (v) workplaces and (vi) residential areas.
Human mobility is tracked by Google daily and in a consistent manner across 131 countries. For a subset of countries, the information is provided at sub-national level." (IZA DP 13205)
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A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
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#13265
An Economic Model of the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies
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#13690
Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence From Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns
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#13297
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries
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#14095
Coronavirus and Social Distancing: Do Non-Pharmaceutical-Interventions Work (at Least) in the Short Run?
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#14682
COVID-19 Mobility Policies Impacts: How Credible Are Difference-in-Differences Estimates?
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#13778
Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information
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#13480
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences
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#13376
Dynamics of Social Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada
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#13649
Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19
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#14883
Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID-19 Recession
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#14967
Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic
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#13237
Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis
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#13293
Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
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#14229
More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic
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#14980
Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
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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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#13516
Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market
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#13790
School Re-Openings after Summer Breaks in Germany Did Not Increase SARS-CoV-2 Cases
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#14844
Schools under Mandatory Testing Can Mitigate the Spread of SARS-CoV-2
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#15111
Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes
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#13234
Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust
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#13651
The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam
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#13862
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
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#13316
Timing is Everything when Fighting a Pandemic: COVID-19 Mortality in Spain
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#13205
Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
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#15171
Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data
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#13440
Urban Density and COVID-19
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#14119
Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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#14903
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infas Corona Data Platform
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The infas Institute for Applied Social Science and infas 360, together with the IHPH - Institute for Hygiene and Public Health at the University Hospital Bonn, were commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and to set up an accompanying data platform for the COVID-19 epidemic.
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This should continuously record framework data, pandemic-related developments and containment measures on a regional basis. The data platform serves as the basis for statistical analyzes and modeling and thus ultimately for evidence-based policy advice. After registration, the data can be downloaded free of charge for research and science (in German).
Since April 1, 2021, in addition to the regional infection data (infections, recovered persons, deaths, intensive care units), which are updated daily in the data platform, other data sets have been brought up to date and expanded with new indicators.
Monthly labor market development for cities and districts; daily data on the progress of Covid-19 vaccinations at state level; deaths and excess mortality per federal state; monthly weather data at district level.
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PlaceIQ COVID-19 Consumer Movement Data
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19PlaceIQ is a data and technology company that provides foot traffic data from mobile devices across the US to understand how people move around the world, and how that changed after COVID-19.
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Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Socio-Economic Impact (SEI) project focuses on data collection to support research on the short- and medium-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related (de)confinement measures in Luxembourg on individuals and their households in terms of work and living conditions, daily activities and mobility, and (not directly COVID-19 related) health and health behaviours. To that purpose, a large-scale survey has been developed which forms the basis for monitoring the impact of the outbreak and associated policy measures on (a) work and living conditions, (b) daily activities and mobility, (c) time use and household interactions and (d) health and health behaviours.
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Phase 2 of the large-scale survey that was launched in March 2021 and examines the long-term effects of the crisis. Similar to the Phase 1 previous survey launched, this large online survey is aimed at all residents in Luxembourg aged 16 and over, whether they are workers, students, retirees, high school students. The survey is also accessible to cross-border workers, who have also been affected by this crisis. The survey covers health (physical and mental), employment and working patterns, daily activities, mobility, family interactions, etc.
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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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TomTom Traffic Index
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19TomTom Traffic Stats is a self-service product that gives access to the industry’s largest historical traffic database. With deep insight into road speeds, travel times, traffic density and traffic congestions, it is possible to identify mobility pain points, assess the impact of road network changes, improve traffic management and much more.
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