A Tracker of Trackers: COVID-19 Policy Responses and Data

A massive collection of COVID-19 policy trackers and data. It covers cross-country research in the areas of non-pharmaceutical interventions, economic and social policy responses, public attitudes, politics and media coverage.

ABCD COVID-19 Impact Measure

The COVID-19 Impact Measure was created to be administered to the participants of the NIH-sponsored Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) longitudinal study of 11,880 diverse community youth enrolled at age 9-10 in 2016-2018 (i.e., birth years 2006-2009) at 21 research sites around the United States.
The ABCD sample was targeted to match U.S. demographics as defined by the American Community Survey (ACS) and is being followed until at least age 20. ABCD will send all currently enrolled participants (age range: 11-13) and their parent/guardian the opportunity to complete the ABCD COVID-19 questionnaires. ABCD's COVID-19 research sends the measure multiple times over several months in 2020.

ACAPS Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 Dataset

The dataset will track secondary impacts across a wide range of relevant themes: economy, health, migration, education to name a few. A set of around 80 impact indicators anticipated to be impacted by COVID-19 have been identified and organized across 4 pillars and 13 thematic blocks. Additionally, a set of around 25 pre-COVID-19 baseline indicators have been selected for each pillar.
The data collection is conducted on a country-level and identifies the secondary impacts the COVID- 19 pandemic is having in more than 190 countries. Data comes from a range of available sources, including international organizations, research centers, and media analysis.

Access World News Research Collection

Access World News Research Collection delivers information for academic research and coursework across the curriculum including history, English/language arts, health, DEI and more.

BIDCOFU Survey

The survey collected a sample of approximately 1,500 UK respondents in Prolific, an online platform collection that connects researchers with participants, who get paid cash for taking part in research. The sample is representative of the UK population with regards age, sex and ethnicity and should be available in August 2020.
The survey was launched June 2020 and announced with the title “BIDCOFU Survey” with the following brief summary: This study is conducted by researchers from the University of Exeter. Participants will be asked to answer a set of questions on demographic patterns. This includes questions that may be sensitive, including but not limited to questions related to COVID-19, mental health and well-being, physical health and health-related behaviors, concerns and perceptions about COVID-19, its prevalence and lethality, expectations on COVID-19 and unemployment, employment and job characteristics, non-labor market time and changes, behaviors when going out, views on the effectiveness of masks.

CHS COVID-19 Control Strategies List (CCCSL)

Worldwide, governments have implemented country-specific control strategies to . However, were those measures effective? Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna are building a comprehensive database of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) taken by the governments worldwide in order to prevent the introduction and mitigate the spread of the virus, and to assess the impact of these actions on the spread of the COVID-19 in the respective countries. Students, researchers, and volunteers are collecting data from public sources on the implemented NPIs, including the time schedules for the implementation.
The dataset describes the implemented NPIs for 54 countries, including the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Measures implemented at the subnational level (state, region, city) are also included.

CLEAR Project Survey

In order to analyze the impact of COVID-19 measures on households and women in Italy, the researchers used a representative sample of 800 Italian women interviewed in April and July 2019 with the purpose of understanding inequalities in women’s work, savings and pensions. In April 2020, the project repeated the interviews, adding specific questions related to the the COVID-19 crisis.
The survey was designed to gather data on four main areas that may have been affected by the health emergency: work, housework, childcare and home schooling. The questions asked, show whether the women and their partners were allowed to continue working at their jobs after the lockdown and its effects during the first phase of the emergency.

COCONEL for Coronavirus and Confinement: Longitudinal Survey

COCONEL for Coronavirus and Confinement: Longitudinal survey, is an online survey deployed by the IFOP polling institute with a panel of a thousand people representative of the French adult population on various aspects of the COVID-19 crisis. Conducted by a consortium of researchers, the study aims to follow more specifically the psychological, emotional and behavioral response of the French population to the COVID-19 epidemic and to containment.
The COCONEL survey is carried out online. Once a week, a sample of a thousand people, representative of the French adult population, is interviewed on the following aspects: housing conditions, job, child and educational continuity, neighborhood and feeling of isolation, containment and living conditions, opinions on containment, prognosis for the duration of the epidemic, sleep disturbances, signs of psychological distress, acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine, prognosis for the duration of the epidemic (in French).

Consumers and COVID-19

Ongoing survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland that asks consumers questions related to the recent coronavirus outbreak, including their expectations for how the economy is likely to be affected by the outbreak and how their own behavior has changed in response to it. The survey began in early March, providing a window into how consumers’ responses have evolved in real time since the early days of the acknowledged spread of COVID-19 in the United States. In updating and charting the survey’s findings on the Cleveland Fed’s website going forward, the researchers seek to inform policymakers and researchers about consumers’ beliefs during a time of high uncertainty and unprecedented policy responses.
The survey is administered on the Qualtrics survey platform, and Qualtrics recruits a nationally representative sample of participants to provide responses. All respondents are required to be US residents, fluent in English, and 18 or older.

Coordinating Remote Work During COVID-19

Qualitative research study at the University of Washington to quickly identify, analyze, and share useful processes, actions, and best practices used by organizations to coordinate social distancing via remote collaborative working. Enduring knowledge about coordination in a complex organization during time of crisis.

Cornell's arXiv COVID-19 quick search

Cornell's arXiv is a free distribution service and an interdisciplinary open-access archive.

Corona Compass

The Corona Compass study, conducted by infratest dimap, is based on a representative sample of the German population eligible to vote in Germany and with an online access. A standard set of questions includes, among other things, the extent to which corona infections are affected in the personal environment, the evaluation of government measures as a whole, the assessment of various individual measures by the state and of companies, the subjective risk assessment of infection, basic attitudes towards economic and political situation and other key indicators. The standard set has been expanded and modified several times recording the acceptance of new measures that are becoming increasingly important in the public discussion. In addition, the Corona Compass collects various questions from basic behavioral and social science research.
As such, it is one of the few representative surveys of (family) well-being that exists for Germany. The COMPASS study has more observations and more information on families than other special well-being surveys taken during the COVID-19 crisis.
The data includes satisfaction in three areas that are important for the well-being of families, namely general life satisfaction, satisfaction with family life, and satisfaction with childcare. The data also includes detailed questions on whether individuals with dependent children in the household are affected by school and day care center closures, on the degree to which they feel restricted by public measures taken to contain COVID-19, and on the extent to which they work from home (in German).

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey

The survey looks to identify how many people across England test positive for COVID-19 infection at a given point in time, regardless of whether they report to experiencing symptoms; also, the average number of new infections per week over the course of the study is quantified; and the number of people who test positive for antibodies is specified, to indicate how many people are ever likely to have had the infection.
The sample for the survey is drawn mainly from the Annual Population Survey (APS), which consists collectively of those who successfully completed the last wave of the Labor Force Survey (LFS) or local LFS boost, and who have consented to future contact regarding research. Additionally, adults over 16 years old surveyed are asked to provide a blood sample, which is used to test for the presence of antibodies to COVID-19.

COVID-19 and Remote Work

To get a real-time sense of how firms and workers are adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic the researchers conducted a nationally-representative sample of the US population using Google Consumer Surveys (GCS) on working practices. The survey was launched on April 1, 2020 and collected responses until April 5, collecting a total of 25.000 responses asking a single question: "Have you started to work from home in the last 4 weeks?"

COVID-19 Data Portal

To address this challenge, international partners have has set up the COVID-19 Data Portal, which will bring together relevant datasets submitted to EMBL-EBI and other major centres for biomedical data. The aim is to facilitate data sharing and analysis, and to accelerate coronavirus research. The COVID-19 Data Portal will enable researchers to upload, access and analyse COVID-19 related reference data and specialist datasets.

COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project

The Medical Industry Leadership Institute (MILI) and the Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC) at the Carlson School of Management has launched this project to consistently track and report daily hospitalizations from all 50 states. Each state’s website is reviewed twice daily. The COVID-19 tracking database is recording the following variables: aggregated, de-identified data from states’ reports on current hospitalizations, cumulative hospitalizations, current and cumulative ICU and ventilator use and deaths from state’s publicly available website. All recorded data is time stamped

COVID-19 Impact on International Higher Education: Studies & Forecasts

An astonishing number of surveys, analyses, and forecasts on the possible COVID-19 impact on international higher education. The DAAD wants to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of COVID-19 research and expertise in the field of international higher education.

COVID-19 is Rapidly Changing: Examining Public Perceptions and Behaviors in Response to this Evolving Pandemic.

The researchers conducted an online survey of Australian residents between 18 and 24 March 2020. Proportional quota sampling was used to ensure that respondents were demographically representative of the general public, with quotas based on age, gender and state/territory. Respondents were required to be 18 years or older and to speak English.
Respondents were asked to rate the perceived level of effectiveness in reducing the risk from COVID-19. These items included those promoted by the government and those that were not (mask use when not symptomatic, taking antibiotics). The strategies were grouped into: hygiene related behaviors (hand washing/sanitizing, cleaning surfaces) and avoidance-related behaviors (avoiding crowds, public transport, and complying with quarantine restrictions). Included was also a question that assessed the respondent’s ability to adopt to different social distancing strategies (working from home, keeping children home from school, avoiding travelling, avoiding large crowds, quarantine if exposed, and isolation if symptomatic. The last section of the survey included items focused on self-isolation. Respondents were asked to comment on their willingness to comply, their level of concern regarding the impact on being placed into self-isolation (at home), their ability to comply, their access to assistance from family/friends and issues they have with the strategy.

COVID-19 Knowledge Space

Fraunhofer SCAI has a long-standing record in the organization and curation (quality assessment and quality improvement of scientific data and knowledge) in entire indication areas. This results in a massive attempt at harnessing the power and capacities in automated information extraction (text mining; extraction from tables; extraction from images) to generate leading disease maps and pharmacomes in the world.

COVID-19 Symptom Survey

The COVID-19 symptom surveys are designed to help researchers better monitor and forecast the spread of COVID-19. In partnership with University of Maryland and Carnegie Mellon University, Facebook users are invited to take surveys conducted by these two partner universities to self-report COVID-19-related symptoms.
The questionnaire asks about current symptoms, access to testing, testing outcome, and contacts outside of their home. Other items included self-reported household financial outlookand indicators for nervousness, depression, and anxiety, adapted from the K10 scale. A 5 day “look back” period was used for mental health measures, in order to examine these constructs in a rapidly changing environment.
Non-public, non-aggregated US and non-US (daily) survey data are available after Facebook's and partner universities' approval.

COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey

The University of Maryland Social Data Science Center Global COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey, in partnership with Facebook is a partnership between Facebook and academic institutions. The survey is available in 56 languages. A representative sample of Facebook users is invited on a daily basis to report on topics including, for example, symptoms, social distancing behavior, vaccine acceptance, mental health issues, and financial constraints. Facebook provides weights to reduce nonresponse and coverage bias. Country and region-level statistics are published daily via public API and dashboards, and microdata is available for researchers via data use agreements. Over half a million responses are collected daily. Data for the United States is not included in the Global COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey but is available at covidcast.cmu.edu As of June 25, 2022, the COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey will no longer collect new survey data. Historical data will continue to be available.

COVID-19 US State Policy Database (CUSP)

The COVID-19 US State Policy Database tracks the dates when each US state implemented new social safety net, economic, and physical distancing policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with data on existing health and social policies and information on state characteristics. This database is developed and maintained by researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health, and is updated at least biweekly.
The database has information on unemployment program, healthcare delivery, racial disparities, incarcerated individuals, vote by mail, physical distance closures, exact date of the declaration of the state of emergency, school and non-essential business closures, shelter-in-place orders, housing protections, masks wearing mandates, changes to Medicaid and SNAP, reopening, quarantines for out of state visitors, alcohol and firearms, substance use disorder policies, food security, and more.
Policies included are state-wide directives or mandates, not guidance or recommendations. In order for a policy to be included, it must apply to the entire state.

COVID-19: Regional Data and Facts about the Pandemic in Germany

A digital magazine for business, research and teaching on the topic of geomarketing with constantly new data and facts about the spatial and temporal spread of COVID-19 in Germany (in German).

Cuebiq COVID-19 Mobility Insights

Cuebiq 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.

Data Sets for COVID-19 Research on Google Cloud Platform

In 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.

DataCite

DataCite provides persistent identifiers for research data and other research outputs across disciplines.

Decision Maker Panel (DMP)

The Decision Maker Panel (DMP) is comprised of Financial Officers from small, medium and large UK companies operating in a broad range of industries and is designed to be representative of the population of UK businesses. The motivation behind the (DMP) was to collect more detailed information on business expectations than is currently available from other sources. The results have proven valuable to the Bank of England, both in terms of informing policy decisions and in creating opportunities for high quality research. Improving our understanding of the decisions that companies are likely to make over the coming years will be critical in helping the Monetary Policy Committee to assess the prospects for the UK economy.

Dimensions

Dimensions is a linked research knowledge system that re-imagines discovery and access to research with emphasis on public health and health services.

DRKS - German Clinical Trials Register

Most of these corona studies are non-interventional and cover a broad spectrum, ranging from registry studies regarding infections in pregnancy and the postpartum period to online interventions to deal with the corona crisis. The widely discussed study on the situation regarding COVID-19 in Heinsberg can also be found in the DRKS.

Econbiz

A literature search across important German and international databases on COVID-19.

Economic Tracker of Opportunity Insights

The 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.

EEA COVID-19 List of Projects on Data.

Papers using data relative to, or collected during COVID-19 epidemic.

Effects of the COVID-19 on the Economy and the Labor Market in Germany

This information platform compiles assessments from research and politics on the effects of COVID-19 on the job market, economic development and necessary measures in Germany from the IAB (Institute of Employment Research, Germany).

Elsevier

Elsevier’s free health and medical research on COVID-19.

Employment and Establishment

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is conducting a repeated special online survey on the corona pandemic investigating daily work routine, changes in working life, and existing uncertainties as part of the study “Employment and Establishment” (in German).

EUCLID-Project Risk Perceptions & Behavior in the Context of the Current Coronavirus Outbreak

In response to the ongoing public health emergency due to the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 and the associated disease COVID-19) outbreak worldwide, the University of Konstanz developed an online survey “EUCLID” to track: 1. Subjective health & symptoms, 2. Perceived risk & outbreak related perceptions, 3. Protection motivation & behavior, 4. Expected future developments of the current outbreak.
The online panel (Prolific Academic), was conducted with social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter), and email lists using a snowball system. Participation is voluntary and as compensation, participants could take part in a lottery. Data collection started February 02, 2020 as part of a student project.
The EUCLID study was carried out as part of the RiskDynamics (FOR 2374) research group funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Center of Excellence Cluster for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz. The surveys are continued on an ongoing basis in 15 countries (July 2020).

EUROSTAT Excess Mortality by Month

The monthly excess mortality indicator is based on the exceptional data collection on weekly deaths that Eurostat set up, in April 2020, to support the policy and research efforts related to Covid-19. With that data collection, Eurostat's target was to provide quickly statistics assessing the changing situation of the total number of deaths on a weekly basis, from early 2020 onwards. National Statistical Institutes transmit available data on total weekly deaths, classified by sex, 5-year age groups and NUTS3 regions (NUTS2016) over the last 20 years, on a voluntary basis. The resulting online tables, and complementary metadata, are available in the folder Weekly deaths - special data collection (demomwk). In December 2020, Eurostat released a European Recovery Statistical Dashboard containing also indicators tracking economic and social developments, including health. In this context, “excess mortality” offers elements for monitoring and further analysing direct and indirect effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The monthly excess mortality indicator draws attention to the magnitude of the crisis by providing a comprehensive comparison of additional deaths amongst the European countries and allowing for further analysis of its causes. The number of deaths from all causes is compared with the expected number of deaths during a certain period in the past. The reasons for an excess mortality may vary according to different phenomena. The indicator is simply comparing the total number of deaths from all causes with the expected number of deaths during a certain period in the past (baseline).

Expert List: The COVID-19 Crisis and its Consequences

The global coronavirus pandemic is already having drastic consequences: The educational sector, the economy, the world of work in general, but also human interaction will probably be different after the crisis than before. To deal with this in a meaningful way, scientific facts are more important than ever, both during the crisis itself and for the time after it. Experts from the University of Hohenheim can provide information on the various aspects of the COVID-19 crisis and its consequences.

Facebook Data for Good

New tools and surveys to help health researchers track and combat COVID-19.

FAIRsharing

This is a draft collection containing databases (which includes knowledgebases and repositories) and standards that are responding to or appropriate for use in the COVID-19 pandemic. These resources may be focused on patient response, clinical trials, virology studies or other related areas .

Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times

It is a survey on approximately 1,500 UK respondents in Prolific, an online platform that connects researchers with participants, who get paid cash for taking part in research. Conditional on participating in the survey, the sample is representative of the UK population with regards age, sex and ethnicity. The survey was launched on 19 June 2020, three months after the beginning of the lockdown on the 23 March 2020, and the focus is on well-being, perceptions and behaviors in COVID-19 times.

GESIS & ZBW da|ra

GESIS Leibniz and ZBW Leibniz DOI registration service for social science and economic data on COVID-19.

GESIS Panel and Initiatives on COVID-19

The GESIS Panel offers researchers the opportunity to collect survey data on the current outbreak of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Germany via a fast-track procedure. Also, GESIS Panel special survey on the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany, and the planned GESIS Panel standard/extended version: longitudinal data on the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany.

Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic

An international team of researchers from 12 different institutions, including Harvard, Cambridge, IESE, and Warwick University, among others is collecting survey data on how citizens prepare and cope with the spreading COVID-19.

Global COVID-19 Survey

The Global COVID-19 Survey is being used for tracking, monitoring, and analyzing global socio-behavioral trends to inform the COVID-19 global response. The study is done by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. The purpose of this research is to analyze socio-behavioral aspects of outbreak control. The research will be used to inform national, regional and global health communication strategies and better inform response efforts. Participation in the online survey is voluntary.

Google Data

Google datasets search on COVID-19 in repositories across the web.

HAPRI COVID-19 Open Access Data

Data for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were collected by the team at HAPRI since the beginning of the pandemic, other data were gather from different sources.
All the data and its by-products herein, including all the sub-data, mapping, and analysis, are provided to the public strictly for educational and academic research purposes.
Daily confirmed and death data is available for Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, USA, Australia , Canada, and China at sub-national level, other countries at national level.

Harvard Business School: COVID-19 Business Impact Center

Economic and financial impacts of COVID-19 covers topics related to the economy and financial markets.

Harvard Dataverse

Harvard Dataverse is a repository for research data comprising datasets, files, and metadata.

Haushaltskrisenbarometer

The most comprehensive evaluation of the corona crisis from the perspective of individual households: The Haushaltskrisenbarometer (Household Crisis Barometer) is supported by a cooperation between the Leibniz Institute for Financial Market Research SAFE, Nielsen-Frankfurt and the Chair of Finance and Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.
The centerpiece is the evaluation of jointly developed questions that are answered every two weeks by the households of the Nielsen Consumer Panel. The high number of households surveyed continuously and the possibility of making the responses representative using statistical methods provide a reliable and timely picture of the economic situation, (consumption) behavior and expectations of the entire population. This is enriched by an insight into the actual purchasing behavior based on the purchases recorded for all households, and further background information.
The Nielsen Consumer Panel consists of around 20.000 households, of which around 16.000 are interviewed. These households have generally been members of the panel for years and submit all of their purchases in the Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) area every week.The inserted questions span a wide spectrum from the current economic situation to fears and expectations for the future (in German).

Healthcare Workers Survey

The Healthcare Workers Survey is a data collection tool designed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the well-being and health of healthcare workers. The survey will be conducted in several countries. Participants will be asked to answer a set of questions on demographic, well-being and working patterns. This includes questions that may be sensitive, including but not limited to questions related to COVID-19. The Healthcare Workers Survey is conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge, University of Exeter and University of Glasgow.

Helsinki Gradutae School of Economics Situation Room

The Situation Room consists of leading economists from Helsinki GSE, VATT Institute for Economic Research, as well as members from several public authorities. It utilizes data from relevant public and private sources and produces regular reports for policymakers. The data is collected and organized in close cooperation with Statistics Finland, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, Bank of Finland, Finnish Tax Administration, Kela and other institutions. The situation room cooperates closely with Vesa Vihriälä’s group, which is focused on the longer-term economic implications of the crisis.

High-frequency Online Personal Panel (HOPP): Life and Work Situations in Times of Corona

The High-Frequency Online Personal Panel (HOPP) is a monthly (after the August 2020 wave, the panel became bimonthly) online panel survey developed by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). HOPP is based on a random sample of 200,000 individuals, which was drawn from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the IAB. The IEB includes the universe of employees subject to social insurance contributions, registered unemployed individuals, unemployment and welfare benefit recipients, and job seekers. Thus, HOPP is representative of the employable population in Germany. Furthermore, the survey data can be linked to the administrative data of the IAB if the respondents provided informed consent for such linkage.
The survey aims to reflect changes in the social and working life of individuals during the covid19 pandemic, for example with regard to the following aspects: Development of employment relationships (regular, self-employment, mini-jobs), short-time work (extent, increase in remuneration through the employer, taking up sideline jobs), social and financial security, working hours, home office ,and childcare.

How are Key Demographic Indicators Related to COVID-19 Reported in the US: A Data Review Protocol

Researchers at Population Council looked at seventy COVID-19 data sources from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and health departments across fifty states, nine territories, and ten major cities. It found that data reporting is woefully inadequate and regrettably incomplete.

IAB Database on Corona Containment Measures

The IAB is conducting extensive research on the effects of the introduction and relaxation of corona containment measures in Germany. These include, for example, contact restrictions and closures of industries. For these measures, a database has been created that is accurate to the day and broken down by federal states and, in some cases, districts (in German).

IAB Home Office Information Platform

The information platform highlights advantages and disadvantages at employee and company level. The latest publications and further resources are available from the IAB (Institute of Employment Research, in German).

IAB-Working Time Measurement Concept

Data on short-time workers and hours reduction from the working time statistics of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).

IAB/ZEW Start-Up-Panel Special Surveys

As part of the annual IAB/ZEW start-up panel - by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB, Nuremberg) and the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, a special survey will be held this year on the effects of the corona pandemic. Crisis management is being analyzed for young companies to better understand the labor market effects of young companies and their possible problems on the labor market. The focus will deal with liquidity problems and consequences of statutory shutdowns. Important issues include not only the extent to which young companies take personnel measures, such as applying for short-time work benefits, reducing working hours, arranging home offices, etc. But also to what extent young companies were able to conquer market niches due to the corona pandemic. It is planned to repeat this survey in autumn 2020 to find out how the companies will develop.

IDEAS / RePEc

IDEAS / RePEc search on economic literature on COVID-19.

idw Tools for Research

The idw scientific information service is the news portal for up-to-date information from science and research about research projects, research results, scientific publications on COVID-19.

IHME COVID-19 Projections

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) COVID-19 mortality, infection, testing, hospital resource use, and social distancing projections and research articles.

Imperial College London

Imperial College London access to code, data and tools developed by the Imperial College COVID-19 response team.

Imperial College London YouGov Covid-19 Behavior Tracker Data Hub

YouGov has partnered with the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at Imperial College London to gather global insights on people’s behaviors in response to COVID-19. The research covers 29 countries, interviewing around 21,000 people each week.
It is designed to provide behavioural analysis on how different populations are responding to the pandemic, helping public health bodies in their efforts to limit the impact of the disease. Anonymised respondent level data will be available for all public health and academic institutions globally.
The questions in the survey, led by IGHI, cover data on testing, symptoms, self-isolating in response to symptoms and the ability and willingness to self-isolate if needed. It also looks at behaviors, including going outdoors, working outside the home, contact with others, hand washing and the extent of compliance with 20 common preventative measures.

infas Corona Data Platform

The 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.
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.

IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper Series research by IZA network members to the scientific community on COVID-19.

IZA World of Labor

IZA World of Labor key topic COVID-19.

Joint Research Centre Survey on COVID-19

The JRC Covid-19 online survey collects information on citizens’ lives since the implementation of confinement measures The survey targets citizens living in EU member states but remains open to the global population. Specifically, the survey gathers information on employment and living conditions, trust in the national, regional and European institutions and attitudes towards the exit strategies that are being put in place. In addition, rotating thematic modules evaluate interactions within the household, homeschooling of children, individual and community resilience, energy consumption and transport use, values and attitudes towards data sharing through mobile apps.

KiCo and JuCo: Surveys of Young People and Parents During the Corona Pandemic

KiCo
Research teams from the Universities of Hildesheim and Frankfurt surveyed parents with children under the age of 15. The measures to contain the corona pandemic have changed the everyday life of many families to a considerable extent. How parents and their children feel about it, what their current well-being is, what characterizes their everyday life, how the fit with the rules of daycare, school opening and also employers are - these are the core questions of the online survey "KiCo", which in the Period from April 24th, 2020 - May 3rd, 2020. Over 25,000 people answered at least 95 percent of the questionnaire in this short time and took a lot of time with it.
JuCo
With the JuCo study, young people and young adults between the ages of 15 and 30 should be reached. It's about subjective assessments in various areas, but also about the collection of objective data such as technical equipment. Questions about the current experience at home and in the family, the handling of contact restrictions and satisfaction with it, and the prepandemic perception along the way were central for the survey. Also the following questions were depicted: What are the living conditions, what existential requirements for mastering the new life situation there is? What worries do young people have, and how do they continue to communicate with friends? Over 5,000 adolescents and young adults answered the questionnaire.

Life and Employment in Times of Corona

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is conducting a survey (N=200.000, 15 minutes) how the corona crisis is affecting the (working) life of people in Germany (in German).

LISS Panel

To analyze changes in work arrangements, behaviors, beliefs and expectations dur-ing the COVID-19 crisis economists from the University of Bonn, IZA and the University of Tilburg surveyed around 5,500 individuals in the Netherlands from March 20-31. The researchers compared work arrangements at the onset of the crisis and shortly after social-distancing policies were implemented.

Mendeley Data

Mendeley research data from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories.

NEPS Research on COVID-19 and Education

As part of the NEPS (National Educational Panel Study), the largest long-term education study in Germany, all participants are being interviewed on the occasion of the corona pandemic. In the current as well as all future surveys the researchers want to determine the current experiences and impressions of the NEPS participants in times of the corona crisis and thus make them useful for educational research.
The focus is on questions about people's everyday lives in school, work and family: How have you been doing since the outbreak of the corona pandemic? How has your everyday life changed? What are you worried about? What has perhaps also developed positively?
All data collected in this way can be used to obtain a differentiated picture of the corona effects on the educational biographies of the respondents (in German).

New York State Department of Health - Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS)

PARCS is a comprehensive all payer data reporting system established in 1979 as a result of cooperation between the healthcare industry and government. The system was initially created to collect information on discharges from hospitals. SPARCS currently collects patient level detail on patient characteristics, diagnoses and treatments, services, and charges for each hospital inpatient stay and outpatient (ambulatory surgery, emergency department, and outpatient services) visit; and each ambulatory surgery and outpatient services visit to a hospital extension clinic and diagnostic and treatment center licensed to provide ambulatory surgery services.

NHS Digital Data

National Health Service England Digital (NHS) is the national digital, data and technology delivery partner for the NHS and social care system. They design, build, deploy and operate national products, platforms and data services for patients, clinicians, and clinical researchers in the NHS, academia and the life sciences sector.

NIH - National Institutes of Health

The latest research information from NIH on COVID-19.

NIH Repository of COVID-19 Research Tools

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.

NLM’s LitCovid portal

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about COVID-19. It is the most comprehensive resource on the PubMed.

On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters

The data were collected at universities in different countries (Czechia, India, Mexico, and Spain) as part of a research project on language learning and migration intentions among university students. During the baseline survey, collected in 2019, prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, respondents were requested a permission to be contacted again for a follow-up survey, which took place in December 2020 and January 2021. The sample was restricted to countries with at least 20 respondents in the follow-up survey.
In both waves, the same two measures for risk attitudes were collected: self-assessed willingness to take risks (“stated willingness to take risks”), and an incentivized lottery decision task (“elicited willingness to take risks”). To measure within-individual variation in willingness to take risks, the sample was restricted to those respondents with information on both measures in both surveys who were still students at the time of the follow-up survey. The estimation sample consists of 303 individuals with information on risk preferences from 9 universities in Czechia, India, Mexico, and Spain; the share of women in the sample is 57% and the median age is 21 years.

Open ICPSR's COVID-19 Data Repository

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has launched a repository of data examining the impact of the novel coronavirus global pandemic. This repository is a free, self-publishing option for researchers to share COVID-19 related data.

Open Research Dataset COVID-19

The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of scholarly articles, including full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.

OSF Coronavirus Outbreak Research Collection

OSF is a free, open source web application that connects and supports the research community. Researchers use OSF to collaborate, document, archive, share, and register research projects, materials, and data on COVID-19 across disciplines.

Oxford Supertracker - The Global Directory for COVID Policy Trackers and Surveys

The Oxford COVID-19 ‘Supertracker’ is a ‘precious compass to help policy-makers' around the world, according to leading international institutions.
Numerous organizations have produced trackers to allow policy-makers and stakeholders to follow and evaluate policy changes and their impact on the pandemic in the UK, Europe and across the world. The Oxford ‘Supertracker’ project makes this information freely available with one tool, allowing users to search and identify international policy.

Parents During the Corona Crisis

A comprehensive overview on the combined effects of the corona crisis on parents, childcare, the labor market and the perspective of partners, has so far been lacking. The study ties in here and examines the effects of the Corona crisis on parents, taking into account both the family and the world of work. It closes a gap in current research on the Corona crisis.
The study gives an overview of the magnitudes of parent groups affected by the closure of day-nurseries and schools and the changes in the labor market in the months of the lockdown. Four topics that achieved relevance during the crisis are also examined in more detail: parents in systemically relevant professions, working from home as a solution, division of labor between women and men, psychological consequences of the crisis for parents.
The study is based on special evaluations of the latest Microcensus from the German Federal Statistical Office (2018) and on a few special questions injected in German Internet Panel for the Mannheim Corona Study (in German).

Perceptions of the Adult US Population Regarding the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

Data were collected using an online survey in early February 2020. Researchers asked participants to rank who they felt should lead the US response to COVID-19. Options included the President, Congress, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition, participants completed a perceived risk scale which had 10 survey-items. Participants were also asked about their support for restrictive infection prevention policies and the reliability of various sources of information.
The sample consisted of 718 adults and was similar to the US population in terms of age, gender, race, ethnicity, and education. The findings may be influenced by possible selection bias because participants needed a CloudResearch account and access to smartphone/computer to participate.

Politbarometer-Extra for Corona May 2020

The "Politbarometer" surveys are performed since 1977 at about monthly intervals by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Institute for election research) for the ZDF (Second German TV network).
They are intended to poll the opinions and attitudes of eligible Germans with regard to current events and issues as well as to political parties and individual politicians.The data from all polls per year is integrated, documented and archived in one cumulative data record at the GESIS Archive.

Research and Corona in German Universities

For the first time, there is a nationwide compilation of over 320 projects that colleges, universities and university hospitals are pursuing as part of the corona pandemic. This unique overview, which the Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation e. V. (Federal Association for Higher Education Communication) published, shows the variety of activities of German universities.
Broken down according to main topics such as drug and vaccine research, models/data, technology, other health issues, economy, society, politics, and in more detail according to subject areas such as bioinformatics, medical ethics, financial services and finance the compilation allows a quick overview of the diverse activities of German universities (in German).

Roper Center: Supporting Public Opinion Data Related to COVID-19

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, located at Cornell University, is the world’s leading archive of public opinion survey data. Among others, the Center’s mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data on COVID-19 for the research community and the interested public.

Science Barometer Special Edition on Corona

How important are research results for people in times of the Corona pandemic? According to the public, what role should science play in politics when dealing with Corona? Do citizens feel well informed about Corona?
The science barometer on Corona is a special edition of the science barometer annually published by Wissenschaft im Dialog. The representative population survey gathers and publishes annual data on public attitudes towards science and research in Germany. The results of the science barometer Corona special edition are based on 1,009 telephone interviews which were conducted on 15 and 16 April 2020 by Kantar on behalf of Wissenschaft im Dialog.

SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive

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.

SFU Economics COVID-19 Research Data

Data used on COVID-19 vaccination numbers, cases and deaths for all ten Canadian provinces, as well as for France, Italy, Germany and Spain until Oct. 2021. Announcement and implementation dates of the proof of vaccination mandates were collected from the respective government websites and major newspapers.

Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19

The 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.
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.

SSRN’s Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research

SSRN’s Interdisciplinary coronavirus and infectious disease research page provides a curated view into the early-stage research.

State-level Social Distancing Policies in Response to COVID-19 in the US

This is a routinely-maintained data repository for US state-level distancing policies to COVID-19. It was developed and is maintained by researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

• Emergency declarations
• Gathering restrictions and recommendations
• School closures
• Restaurant restrictions
• Bar restrictions
• Business closures (including non-essential business closures)
• Stay-at-home orders and advisories
• Travel restrictions and travel-based quarantine orders
• Case-based isolation orders
• Public mask mandates

Survey of Acceptability of App-Based Contact Tracing in the UK, US, France, Germany and Italy

The 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.

Survey Research Methods During the COVID-19 Crisis

SRM 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.

Taylor & Francis  COVID-19 Research Archive

Sharing research data and findings relevant to COVID-19 from the international academic publisher Taylor & Francis.

The COVID-19 Research Database

The COVID-19 research database enables public health and policy researchers to use real-world data to better understand and combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The database is a pro-bono, cross-industry collaborative, composed of institutions donating technology service, healthcare expertise, and limited and de-identified data. The database is a public-private consortium organized by Datavant, Health Care Cost Institute, Medidata, Mirador Analytics, Veradigm, Change Healthcare, Snowflake and many others.
The database can be accessed by academic, scientific and medical researchers conducting real-world data studies related to COVID-19. Although researchers may come from any sector, only non-profit, non-commercial projects related to COVID-19 or pandemics will be considered. All results must be made publicly available, preferably through peer-reviewed publications. To get access, first register as a researcher on the homepage

The French SAPRIS Project

The SAPRIS project is a longitudinal general population survey designed to identify the epidemiological and social issues of the coronavirus public health crisis in France. It draws on the national general population cohorts, comprising a total of over 200,000 persons.
Research focuses include the incidence of COVID-19 symptoms and other health problems; whether or not people seek medical care; risk perception; the effects of infection prevention measures on daily life, social relations, and work; and trust in public and scientific recommendations. The impact of lockdown on children will also be studied, in terms of its effects on parent-child relations and leisure activities, particularly screen use; as well as home schooling conditions and children’s overall well-being in a situation of confinement (in French).

The Lens

The Lens has assembled free and open datasets of patent documents, scholarly research works metadata and biological sequences from patents, and deposited them in a machine-readable and explorable form.

The Life with Corona Survey

The Life with Corona survey is a global online survey launched on 23 March 2020. The questionnaire covers three broad research areas — livelihoods and well-being; norms, trust and politics; and public health and pandemic exposure — as well as basic socioeconomic information on respondents. The survey was initially launched in German and English, and has now been translated into 21 additional languages. Using online snowball sampling, people from around the world participated in the survey by visiting the survey platform and completing the questionnaire. The data will be made available for academic non-profit analyses. (IZA DP 13386)

The WPRN 2021 Conference

On the 9th and 10th of December, participate in the 1st Conference on the Impacts of Covid-19 (#WPRN21) , organised by the World Pandemic Research Network and sponsored by the International Science Council, the Netias and Ubias networks, the European Alliance for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, and the Union académique internationale.
#WPRN21 will be the first international forum for researchers and practitioners from all areas of expertise and backgrounds working on the human, economic, and societal impacts of Covid-19 to present ongoing projects, share and disseminate insights and results, and to make connections for future collaboration.

Twitter Raw Data on COVID-19

The data was retrieved by TwitterScraper API. The researcher retrieved about 13,000 tweets each day from Jan. 20th to April 8th (80 days), using search query "#COVID2019 OR #COVID19 OR coronavirus". The total tweets they obtained is 1,100,069 tweets to see how people’s feelings and expressions changed over time during the pandemic in the U.S.

UK Time-Use Diary Survey: The Click and Drag Diary Instrument (CaDDI)

In 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.

Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study

From April 2020 participants from the main Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study UKHLS) sample have been asked to complete a short web-survey (telephone version if internet not available). This survey covers the changing impact of the pandemic on the welfare of UK individuals, families and wider communities. Participants complete one survey a month, which includes core content designed to track changes, alongside variable content adapted each month as the coronavirus situation develops. Each survey takes around 20 minutes to complete.
The survey forms an integral part of Understanding Society, a representative sample of UK households, with boost samples of Black and minority ethnic groups. Researchers can link data from the COVID-19 survey to answers respondents have given in past (and future) waves of the annual survey.

University College London (UCL) COVID-19 Social Study

The UCL COVID-19 Social Study is a large panel study of the psychological and social experiences of over 75,000 adults (aged 18+) in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study commenced on 21st March 2020 and involves online weekly data collection from participants for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. The study is not random and therefore is not representative of the UK population. But it does contain a well-stratified sample that was recruited using three primary approaches. First, snowballing was used, including promoting the study through existing networks and mailing lists (including large databases of adults who had previously consented to be involved in health research across the UK), print and digital media coverage, and social media. Second, more targeted recruitment was undertaken focusing on (i) individuals from a low-income background, (ii) individuals with no or few educational qualifications, and (iii) individuals who were unemployed. Third, the study was promoted via partnerships with third sector organizations to vulnerable groups, including adults with pre-existing mental health conditions, older adults, carers, and people experiencing domestic violence or abuse. The study was approved by the UCL Research Ethics Committee [12467/005] and all participants gave informed consent.

WAQI COVID-19 Air Quality Worldwide Dataset

Provides a worldwide weather and air quality dataset specially organized for researche on the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collection is based on the physical weather stations located in different sections in the city. The data set provides min, max, median and standard deviation for each of the air pollutant species as well as meteorological data.

Work at Home Index

This repository contains the code and data underlying the note "How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?" by Jonathan I. Dingel and Brent Neiman. The researchers classify the feasibility of working at home for all occupations and merge this classification with occupational employment counts. The occupational classification is applied to 85 other countries. Other researchers have applied the measures to Australian occupational codes and to US state-level.

Working Life in the COVID-19 Pandemic 2021

This publication consists of individual country reports on working life during 2021 for 28 countries – the 27 EU Member States and Norway. The country reports summarise evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on working life based on national research and survey results during 2021. They outline the policy responses of governments and social partners in their efforts to cushion the socioeconomic effects and include a focus on policy areas related to adapting to the pandemic and the return to work. This includes in particular a focus on new health and safety arrangements at work, new work arrangements, policies to address labour shortages and wages and wage setting. The reports also explore the impact of the pandemic on social dialogue, collective bargaining and industrial action.

ZB Med COVID -19 Hub

ZB Med tools, literature, and datasets related to COVID-19.