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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BIDCOFU Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The 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.
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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.
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COVID-19 Health, Racial & Economic Equity Data Viewer
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This collection contains Esri maps, data, and apps that can help guide decisions around health, racial, and economic equity during COVID-19 and beyond.
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Includes data on race, ethnicity, age, gender, immigration, language, child well-being, senior well-being, disability status, health insurance, income, disposable income, home ownership, housing costs, air quality, homelessness, diversity, food access, savings vulnerability, education, internet access, family living arrangements, population, poverty, transportation, unemployment, social vulnerability, occupations, business & economic vulnerability, life expectancy, low birth weight, COVID-19 providers, social distancing, and more.
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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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Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival
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Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?
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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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Economic Tracker of Opportunity Insights
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker (https://tracktherecovery.org) combines anonymized data from leading private companies – from credit card processors to payroll firms – to provide a real-time picture of indicators such as employment rates, consumer spending, and job postings across counties, industries, and income groups.
The data were made freely available in order to assist in efforts to inform the public, policymakers, and researchers about the real-time state of the economy and the effects of COVID-19.- Geocoded geographic identifier;
- spending data from Affinity Solutions;
- job postings data from Burning Glass Technologies;
- COVID cases, deaths, tests, and vaccination numbers from the CDC;
- GPS mobility from Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports;
- employment levels from Paychex, Intuit, Earnin and Kronos;
- unemployment insurance claims data from the Department of Labor;
- small business openings and revenue data from Womply;
- online math learning data from Zearn;
- key state-level policy dates relevant for changes in other series trends and values.
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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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Family Life in Lockdown
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The project studies the personal and family consequences of mass-scale social isolation on individuals’ mental health and well-being caused by COVID-19.
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Through the lens of household and gender economic models, as well as language and discourse analysis, the project describes the alterations in the daily life of Italian and British citizens.
An online survey instrument was designed for adults and one for children that focus on understanding how the daily routine has been modified; what process has lead to the current division of labor within the household; the repercussions on personal well-being, family tension, beliefs and aspirations, risk attitudes, trust and cooperation within and outside of the household.
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Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19It 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.
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German Job Search Panel
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The German Job Search Panel is a longitudinal survey that follows people who register as job seeking over the course of up to two years. The focus of the survey is on job seekers’ well-being and health. An innovative survey app is used to allow for frequent measurement every month and for conducting the experience sampling method. The collected data may be linked to administrative records of the Federal Employment Agency, provided that people give their consent. A subsample of surveyed job seekers took part in hair sampling to measure their cortisol levels. In this report, we describe the sampling procedure, adjustments over the recruitment period and the collected data. We moreover examine selective participation in the panel. It turns out that high-skilled workers, young individuals and women were more likely to sign up. Age increases the probability to take part in the hair sampling. People working in East Germany were more likely to consent to the linkage of survey data and administrative records.
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Helsinki Gradutae School of Economics Situation Room
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19The 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.
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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 Employment Data
Economic DevelopmentCurrent data and indicators of labor market trends in the eastern and western parts of 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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National Household Sample Survey - PNAD COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This nationally-representative survey of Brazilian households aims at estimating the number of persons with symptoms associated with the flu syndrome and at following up the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brazilian labor market. The sample is longitudinal, i.e., the households interviewed in the first month of data collection will remain in the sample along the next months, up to the end of the survey.
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The questionnaire is divided into two parts, one directed to health issues, specifically on symptoms associated with the flu syndrome, and the other, to labor issues. The labor issues aim at ranking the population at working age in the following categories: employed, unemployed and persons out of the workforce. The following aspects are also investigated: employment and activity; work leave and reason for leaving; home office; search for work; reason for not searching for work; weekly hours effectively and usually worked; employment status and one-digit occupations, as well as the effective and usual earnings from labor.
The questionnaire is subject to changes along the application period. The survey releases some indicators on a weekly basis, at Brazil level, and a wider set of indicators on a monthly basis, for Federation Units.
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Real-Time Population Survey (RPS)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The core of the Real-Time Population Survey (RPS) online survey closely follows the core labor market questions in the BLS’s primary household survey, the Current Population Survey (CPS). Because it closely follows the CPS, it is possible to compute labor market estimates consistent with the government measures. This means that the results can be viewed as real-time predictions of the official government statistics, except available up to six weeks ahead of time and updated twice as often. This is one of the key distinctive features compared to other recent studies using online surveys to gauge the state of the US labor market.
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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 Consequences of the Coronavirus Pandemic for Inequality in Israel
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The initial population of the longitudinal survey is made of adult Israeli men and women (age 18+), who were employed or self-employed in the first week of March, prior to the lockdown of the economy. The survey is not a probability sample of the population as only those registered with the panel can be sampled, though it is a sample of the panelist, stratified by age, gender, geographical region, and religiosity.
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This first wave includes information on employment and job characteristics of Israeli households in the first week of March (before the economic downturn) and in the last week of April (after the economy was shut down, but before it was reopened). In the second wave, the information on employment and job characteristics of the original population was updated to June, and in wave 3 to August. Wave 4 was launched to capture changes in employment (paid and unpaid) patterns due to the second lockdown in Israel, which was started on September 2020.
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The Singapore Life Panel
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Each month, an active panel of 11,000 Singaporeans aged 50 to 70 years (couples and single people) are asked questions about their income, expenditure, health, work and housing choices.
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The panel allows to study COVID-19 impact on household consumption spending and labor market outcomes jointly. And to investigate how and why COVID-19 has affected these outcomes through rich information on individual characteristics such as risk avoidance behavior, saving, perceived economic uncertainty, and chronic health conditions,
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Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Data from the U.S. Department of Labor
Economic DevelopmentThe Unemployment Insurance weekly claims data are used in current economic analysis of unemployment trends in the nation, and in each state. Initial claims measure emerging unemployment and continued weeks claimed measure the number of persons claiming unemployment benefits.
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WageIndicator Survey of Living and Working in Coronavirus Times
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The WageIndicator Foundation has launched a continuous global online survey ‘Living and Working in Corona Times’. The purpose of the survey is to discover what makes the Coronavirus lockdown easier (or tougher) for citizens across 110 countries, and to gauge the effect of COVID-19 on jobs, lives and states of mind.
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Why is this resource interesting?WageIndicator shows coronavirus-induced changes in living and working conditions in 110 countries. The survey reveals, from day to day, the consequences the large majority of the working population of the world experiences on the basis of answers on the following questions in the Corona survey:
- Is your work affected by the corona crisis?
- Are precautionary measures taken at the workplace?
- Do you have to work from home?
- Has your workload increased/decreased?
- Have you lost your job/work/assignments?