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.

AID:A Corona Add-on

For AID:A Growing up in Germany: Corona Add-on Everyday Worlds are available as a basis for the empirical analyzes with data on current living conditions, as well as their circumstances during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
As part of the study, from August to November 2020, a total of 867 people between the ages of 12 and 32 who had already participated in the main survey in 2019 were surveyed using a short interim survey in the form of an add-on on the corona pandemic and its consequences. The content of the short questionnaire was the life situation during the corona pandemic. With the two surveys in 2019 and 2020, the survey offers the opportunity to analyze changes in living situation for at least some young people before and during the corona pandemic.

Burbio's K-12 School Opening Tracker

Burbio publishes a weekly School Opening Tracker for almost all U.S. counties based on information from 1,200 public school districts representing 47% of U.S. K-12 student enrollment in over 35,000 schools. The tracker starts in August 2020 and reports the share of public school students engaged in either “Traditional”, “Hybrid”, or “Virtual” learning mode in a county, where Hybrid means that students attend school 2-3 days per week in-person.

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).

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).

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 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.

DJI Childcare Study COVID-19 Add-on

The survey has been supplemented by a short additional module on the effects of the corona virus on the care of children up to primary school age since the beginning of the corona pandemic. Parents already interviewed at this time were also asked about the current changes in the care of their children due to corona as part of a follow-up study. In addition to the deviation from the "usual" care situation, the support received in organising childcare as well as changes in the parents' working behaviour will be surveyed. Over the field period from the end of March to the end of July 2020, the overall course of the collected information can provide information on the extent of the changes over time and the flexibility that families have to provide as well as the stabilisation of the care situation in the following months.
The DJI Childcare Study (KiBS) is an annual, representative survey of approx. 33,000 parents with children under the age of 12 years. Based on random samples from the residents' registration office, about 2,000 interviews are conducted in each federal state of Germany. The youngest age cohort, children under one year of age, is drawn each year anew, while the older children continue the panel survey. The parent principally caring for the child is interviewed; in more than 90 per cent of the interviews, this is the child's mother. The duration of a telephone interview (CATI) is about 20 minutes per person.

Education Week

Education Week tracked and documented the closures—first at the school or district level and ultimately, state-by-state, from March 6 to May 15, 2020. Looking for information about the 2020-21 school year? Education Week tracked where schools were open or closed due to COVID-19 here: (Map: Where Has COVID-19 Closed Schools? Where Are They Open?).
The data are no longer updated.

First Insights into the Quality of Homeschooling

Parents and their school-age children and adolescents have been facing home schooling for over two months. Even if there are currently easements, these only affect selected grades and the lessons are still very reduced and predominantly at home.
Scientists from the Universities of Dortmund and Marburg are conducting a study on the quality of home schooling which has a focus on the following topics: organisation and quality of homeschooling, school subjects, technical options for online lessons, frequency of lessons via video conference, personal contact between teachers and the children and communication means. First results are published in German.

Harvard Business School: COVID-19 Business Impact Center

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

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.

IAB BerO Study

The study focuses on professional orientation and counseling at the upper levels of general education schools and is intended to examine the individual professional orientation and the study and career choice behavior of high school students based on this.
The baseline survey (wave 1) was conducted as a paper-and-pencil interview (PAPI) in 214 schools in 8 of 16 German federal states. Students completed the questionnaire in school between September and November 2019 and were instructed by a professional data collection team. The follow-ups took place outside the school context as a computer-assisted web or telephone interview (CAWI/CATI). Students were interviewed from February to June 2020 (wave 2) during the first wave of infection with some students answering before and others after school closures. Survey wave 3 took place from November to January 2021 during the second COVID-19 wave.

ifo Education Survey 2020

The ifo Education Survey (e.g. ifo Education Barometer) is based on an annual public opinion survey. In 2020, over 10,000 individuals were interviewed, who constitute a representative sample of Germany’s adult population between 18 and 69 years. Also, 1,000 parents of schoolchildren on coronavirus-related school closures were part of the survey. The survey focused on education in the Coronavirus crisis: The time schoolchildren spend on school activities, educational measures Germans advocate, like compulsory online instruction, effects of school closures on digitization in education

ifo Education Survey 2020 – Parent Survey

The sample of parents: From the total sample of the ifo Education Survey, which includes a representative sample of the adult population in Germany all parents of school children have been asked to answer questions for their youngest school child about activities during the time of the Corona related school closures.
In this respect, this subsample is a "convenience sample" of parents of pupils at all general schools - elementary schools, secondary schools, junior high schools and comprehensive schools, grammar schools and other types of secondary schools -,due to the representativeness of the overall sample, and a good representation of the students at general education schools.
The parent survey includes a question about children's activities in the period before the school closures. The parent sample includes 1,099 parents of school children.
The first wave of the survey was conducted as part of a large education survey from 3 June to 1 July 2020. The second wave of the survey was in the field from 17 February to 10 March 2021.
Overall, 2,045 parents of children in schools were surveyed. In contrast to the first survey, the sample in the second survey was immediately restricted to parents, and quotas were again used to ensure representativeness along several dimensions including age, gender, state of residence, and education degree. A total of 513 respondents, equivalent to 47 percent of the original parent sample, were successfully recruited to participate again in the second wave. The sample allows to compare respondents’ answers in the first period of school closures and nearly one year later, and hence gain novel insights how individual families and schools adapted to the new realities brought on by the pandemic.

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.

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.

KOF Stringency Indices

The KOF Stringency Index and KOF Stringency-Plus Index document the severity of the Covid-19 measures in Switzerland. The indices show the development of the lockdown rules over time and in comparison between the cantons. The values range from 0 (= no measures) to 100 (= complete lockdown).
The data has been available at national level and individually for all 26 cantons in Switzerland since January 2020 and are updated daily.
The KOF Stringency Index consists of the following nine sub-indices: school closings; company closures; cancellation of public events; convention restrictions; reduced use of public transport; rules to stay at home; nationwide exit restrictions; international travel restrictions and information campaigns for the population.
For the KOF StringencyPlus Index is adapting the original KOF Stringency Index in two dimensions: on the one hand, face coverings as an additional indicator are considered, and on the other, a further category to the sub-indicator “business closure” is added.

Luminate - Data, Trends, and Reports on Graduate Labor Market.

Luminate is the home of data, trends, advice and thought leadership on the school leaver and graduate labor market. Providing a fresh voice for the sector, it is aimed at careers advisers, recruiters, employers and anyone interested in labor market information.

National Governors Association COVID-19 State and Territory Action Tracker

The US National Governors Association (NGA) is collecting information on actions states/territories have taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic; as well as advocacy, and policy for protecting public health and the economy.
In detail NGA collects enactment dates and further details on state actions addressing business reopening, public health criteria in reopening plans, state COVID-19 emergency orders, and COVID-19 education reopening policies.

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).

pairfam COVID-19 Survey

The pairfam project team initiated an additional study to collect data on the consequences of COVID-19 on family life. This data will enable an examination of the implications of the pandemic on family life, and it can be matched with the regular pairfam data for longitudinal analysis.
The pairfam COVID-19 survey covers topics such as changes in occupational status and income, division of house work, relationship quality (e.g., intimacy, conflict), wellbeing (e.g., stress, loneliness, depressiveness), parent-child contact in stepfamilies, child schooling and screen time, strain in the parenting role, and family climate. This survey was designed as a computer assisted web interview of 15-minutes length and was scheduled for mid-May to June 2020.

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).

Return2Learn Tracker

Return2Learn (R2L) is another learning mode tracker constructed by the American Enterprise Institute and Davidson College. Like Burbio, the R2L data consists of weekly indicators from August 2020 onward of the share of public school students engaged in one of the three learning modes, although their definitions differ somewhat. The data is available at the school district level, covering about 8,000 districts in over 3,000 counties that account for 90% of U.S. K-12 student enrollment.

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.

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 Consumer Expectations (SCE)

The Job Search Supplement to the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been administered annually each October since 2013. The supplement asks a broad range of questions on one’s current employment state, job search activity, employment history, and work preferences (e.g., reservation wage, desired work hours). SCE data are for October of each year, so the 2020 survey elicits responses about six months after the initial spike in Covid cases and lockdown period, while the 2021 survey elicits responses between the major waves of the delta and omicron Covid variants and during a period of relatively strong labor market growth. The 2020 and 2021 SCE Job Search Supplements have additional survey questions that focus on issues specific to the Covid pandemic. These include follow-ups to its questions on reasons for not looking for work and reasons for part-time search that elicit whether the Covid pandemic accounted for these reasons and in what way (e.g., child care issues, fear of contracting the virus, caring for someone who was sick, etc.). The new questions also ask about schooling, online learning, and other aspects of the household that may affect the respondent’s labor supply decision.

The COPSY-Study

The COPSY study examines the effects and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and adolescents in Germany. An additional goal of the COPSY study is to identify influencing factors that promote the mental health of children and adolescents in this crisis situation. From this, recommendations and strategies for prevention and intervention measures are to be derived promoting the mental health of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the nationwide COPSY study, an extensive online survey on the mental health of children and adolescents and their families is carried out. A total of 1,000 11 to 17 year old children and adolescents as well as 1,500 parents of 7 to 17 children and adolescents are interviewed. The online questionnaire includes questions about how children deal with the crisis situation, questions about school, friends and family, about psychological problems such as anxiety and depression and about psychosomatic complaints. The family environment, media consumption and eating habits are also examined (in German).

The COVID-19 School Closure and Math Learning Inequalities in Primary School in the Torino Province (MATGAP)

The aim of the project "The Covid-19 School Closure and Math Learning Inequalities in Primary School in the Torino Province" (MATGAP) is to measure the effect of the Covid-19 school closures on math skills, among primary school children in grade 3, with special attention to children with a disadvantaged background. Being be the first such evaluation done in Italy, the project will allows to identify the children who have been most affected by the school lockdown.

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 Hunt Institute: COVID-19 Resources and Policy Considerations

The Hunt Institute has put together state-specific resources across the education continuum, as well as policy measures addressing child care, K-12, and post secondary COVID-19 responses.

Tracking Public Health and Social Measures (PHSM)

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of organizations have begun tracking implementation of Public health and social measures (PHSMs) around the world, using different data collection methods, database designs and classification schemes. A unique collaboration between WHO, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ACAPS, University of Oxford, Global Public Health Intelligence Network, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna has brought these datasets together, using a common taxonomy and structure, into a single, open-content dataset for public use.
The project has two stages and different databases are associated with each stage: in stage 1, the datasets from each of the seven providers were formatted and coded but not cleaned or altered, apart from standardizing country, territory or area names to those used by the WHO. This database has duplicate records if more than one dataset reported the same measure. In stage 2, duplicates were removed, PHSM coding was validated and verified beyond what the dataset providers have already done, additional variables were coded for each measure, and records are closed if the measure is no longer in place.

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.

UNESCO Global Monitoring of School Closures

UNESCO is tracking the evolution of COVID-19 caused closures of educational institutions and monitoring the policy responses deployed to mitigate impact. This includes tracking the timing and duration of closures and the number of students affected by level of education and sex. The data on closures and re-openings, as well as the number of impacted learners, are displayed on an interactive map. Updated on a weekly basis, the map shows the evolution of closures since mid-February 2020. Data on the evolution of school closures and re-openings is available for download.

World Bank Education and COVID-19

Education Systems’ Response to COVID-19: school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, number of children out of school, and schools reopening monitored by the World Bank Education Team.