Data Resources on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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A number of national and international research projects are currently underway that empirically
record the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection is wide and ranges
from snapshots of surveys with self-selected samples, representative surveys, longitudinal studies,
experiments, etc..
IZA’s Research Data Center (IDSC) collects and curates the information on such new initiatives.
Projects with high research output based on number of IZA Discussion Papers or otherwise are
promoted especially as “featured resources” on the top of our website.
Please contact the IDSC of IZA for any suggestions of further content at
idsc@iza.org.
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ACAPS Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 Dataset
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The 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.
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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.
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CLEAR Project Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19In 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.
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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.
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COVID-19 US State Policy Database (CUSP)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The 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.
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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.
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#14182
Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival
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#13231
Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?
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#13695
Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
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EUROFOUND Living, Working and COVID-19 Data
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19Eurofound's e-survey, Living, working and COVID-19, to captures the most immediate changes during the pandemic and their impact, with the aim of helping to shape the response to this crisis. The survey looks at quality of life and well-being, with questions ranging from life satisfaction, happiness and optimism, to health and levels of trust in institutions. Respondents are also asked about their work situation, their work–life balance and level of teleworking during COVID-19. The survey also assesses the impact of the pandemic on people’s living conditions and financial situation.
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European Skills and Jobs Survey COVID-19 and Labor Market
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Cedefop is designing the second wave of its European skills and jobs survey (ESJS). A second wave, in the first half of 2021, will address the ongoing policy debate about the impact of digitalisation on jobs and the nature of work, as well as heightened concerns about what may be a long-term effect of the coronavirus crisis on EU jobs and skills.
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The new ESJS will collect comparative information from EU Member States on the impact of technological change and digitalisation on workers’ job tasks and skill mismatch, and their readiness to adapt by investing in online learning.
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High-frequency Online Personal Panel (HOPP): Life and Work Situations in Times of Corona
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The 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.
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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.
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IAB Linked Personnel Panel (LPP)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The COVID-19 add-on survey shows how the everyday work of employees in medium-sized and large private-sector companies has changed during the COVID-19 crisis. The survey is particularly about transitions to short-time work, changes in working hours and place of work, communication and the compatibility of work and private life. The survey is trying to address especially the following questions: how short-time work is used; how short-time work has changed; how many are currently working from home and to what extent; how do employees communicate with each other; how do work, family and childcare evolve?
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The basis of the current online survey is the IAB Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which consists of a longitudinal survey of German private-sector companies with at least 50 employees subject to social security contributions and randomly selected employees in these companies. From early April to end of May 2020 IAB surveyed around 1,200 employees online about their daily work during the Corona crisis. A second wave started in early June 2020.
The information is representative of people who work in private companies with at least 50 employees and who use digital information and communication technologies for work. This applies to around 40 percent of employees subject to social security contributions in Germany.
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LASI-DAD COVID-19 Households in India
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The survey, strives to measure individual respondent's perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral reactions related to the pandemic. The survey targets one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female from each household of the LASI-DAD study. The survey takes about 15 minutes to administer and was conducted via phone call every two months starting from May 2020. The same respondents are re-interviewed over a one-year time period. All interviews are conducted in the respondent's local language to ensure respondent comprehension and comfort. The nationally representative sample, strives to monitor the nationwide prevalence of COVID-19 symptoms, adoption of disease avoidance behaviors, rates of economic hardships and job loss, receipt of social protection benefits, food security, and the mental health of households.
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LISS Panel
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19To 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.
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Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands
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#14180
Job Search during a Pandemic Recession: Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
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#13623
Labour Supply during Lockdown and a "New Normal": The Case of the Netherlands
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Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Disentangling Crucial Channels
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Mercer Global COVID-19 Surveys
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Mercer, an US human resources consulting firm, is conducting a global spot survey to capture and share business responses from companies around the world taken as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Data are collected and updated with new questions on a monthly basis.
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Report sections include the status of COVID-19 planning, impact on business performance, adaption to the COVID-19 business environment, upcoming salary reviews and workforce adjustments, expatriate-specific and business-traveler concerns and issues, details on post-travel quarantine or self-imposed isolation procedures, flexible working strategy, programs and policies, work organization, and employee engagement, guidance and support provided to employees, return to the workplace and flexing for the future.
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OpenSAFELY
Technological DevelopmentOpenSAFELY is a new secure analytics platform for electronic health records in the UK NHS, created to deliver urgent results during the global COVID-19 emergency. It is now successfully delivering analyses across more than 24 million patients’ full pseudonymised primary care NHS records. All analytic software is open for security review, scientific review, and re-use. OpenSAFELY uses a new model for enhanced security and timely access to data: no transport large volumes of potentially disclosive pseudonymised patient data outside of the secure environments managed by the electronic health record software company; instead, trusted analysts can run large scale computation across near real-time pseudonymised patient records inside the data centre of the electronic health records software company.
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Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Systematic and comprehensive overview of policies introduced to attenuate the labor market disruptions caused by the pandemic: cash transfer programs, unemployment benefits, social security subsidies, wage subsidies, labor market regulation adjustments and shorter work time benefits among others are listed per country (200 countries/territories).
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The COVID-19 Household Impact Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The COVID-19 Household Impact Survey is a philanthropic effort to provide national and regional statistics about physical health, mental health, economic security, and social dynamics in the United States from the US Data Foundation.
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