We have now migrated to a new website. For further updates, please visit: Oxford Supertracker: The Global Directory for COVID Policy Trackers and Surveys

A tracker of trackers: COVID-19 policy responses and data

The amount of COVID-19 related research being produced within the first weeks following the implementation of far-reaching lockdowns across the globe has been impressive. To keep track of new sources, I have compiled a collection of currently over 100 policy trackers and datasets on the topic. The compilation is not meant to be exhaustive and I am grateful for general feedback you may have or suggestions on new sources. I am updating the tracker of trackers on a daily basis. Please email me at lukas.lehner@spi.ox.ac.uk or follow me on Twitter for updates.

Sections 15. and 16. on surveys are edited by Elias Naumann. For suggestions, please email him at naumann@uni-mannheim.de.

The tracker of trackers collection has lead to the creation of the Oxford Supertracker: The Global Directory for COVID Policy Trackers and Surveys, a joint project by Mary Daly, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Lukas Lehner, Marek Naczyk and Tim Vlandas at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) at the University of Oxford funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) and the Oxford ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA). Please visit the new website and subscribe to receive regular updates on new sources.

This collection started initially as a Twitter Thread in March 2020 and is based on a collaborative effort with suggestions from @B_Ebbinghaus, @timvlandas, @AliBargu, @ertugrul_polat_, @roosa_jolkkonen, @MoreiraAmilcar, @FrancescaAliaB, @FNoeth, @PhoebeIshak, @OstermeierMa, @BisciariP, @LuMesserschmidt, @jimmy810920, @perezludena, @olgaloblova, @LTCcovid, @Luckinger, @KnowsOnions, @SebDiessner, Grant Mills, @AnToniPichler, @Anne_Parth, @O_LJ, @PeterSWyckoff, @JoachimGassen, @ToddOfMess, @leecrawfurd, @tozCSS, @jwkritchie @juliascanney, @AllbriteAllday @AltPrimate, @econ_hmg, @hmryder, @TimGoedeme, @Covid_Africa, @elinaribakova, @JuliaGruebler, @TobyMPhillips, @shelter_live, @ashamin, Seth Schimmel, @AsjadNaqvi, @jsvine, @zehrarizvi Karel Mertens, @_CatJones_, @JuliaRaifman, Phoebe Dunn, @kbbolch, @LiviaFritz, and @KonstPoensgen.

The collection is structured around the areas of

1. Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions incl. Confinement and Travel
2. Macroeconomic and Financial Policy
3. Tax Policy
4. Trade Policy and FDI
5. Social and Employment Policy
6. Health and Care Policy
7. Education, Research and Innovation
8. Regions, Cities, SMEs, Tourism
9. Behavioural Responses and Mobility
10. Politics, Elections, Policy Making
11. Civic Freedom, Human Rights, Media
12. War, Peace and Civil Unrest
13. Prisons, Courts and Judiciary Systems
14. International Development, Philantropy
15. National Surveys (with probability samples)
16. National and comparative surveys (with non-probability samples)
Additional Sources: Research & other collections

1. Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions incl. Confinement and Travel

WHO PHSM: Public health and social measures
- Focus: measures or actions by individuals, institutions, communities, local and national governments and international bodies to slow or stop the spread of an infectious disease. Establishing one single open-content dataset by merging pre-existing datasets from 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.
- Coverage: countries worldwide
- Data format: csv
- By @WHO
COVID19 Government Measures Dataset
- Focus: implemented governments measures structured by 1) Social distancing, 2) Movement restrictions, 3) Public health measures, 4) Social and economic measures, 5) Lockdowns
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: xlsx spreadsheet
- By @ACAPSproject
Oxford COVID19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) incl. a stringency index on government response (GitHub repo)
- Focus: 8 indicators on containment policies (such as school closures or travel restrictions), 4 economic indicators on fiscal or stimulus measures, and 5 indicators that track health system policies (such as testing).
- Coverage: 150 countries
- Data format: csv or via API
- By @thomasnhale, @annajessiep, @TobyMPhillips, @BlavatnikSchool
CoronaNet project database on government responses
- Focus: currently includes more than 10,000 separate policy announcements on measures such as social distancing measures, border restrictions, public awareness campaigns, declaration of emergency, health
- Coverage: 190 countries and sub-national units
- Data format: csv, xlsx spreadsheet
- By @CoronaNet_org, @LuMesserschmidt, @rmkubinec, @joan_barcelo_, @as_hartnett
Complexity Science Hub COVID-19 Covid-19 Control Strategies List (CCCSL)
- Focus: non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to stop the spread of COVID-19
- Coverage: 170 governmental measures in 41 countries worldwide
- Data format: csv spreadsheet
- By @CSHVienna
Health Intervention Tracking for COVID-19 (HIT-COVID) and Data
- Focus: documents public health policy interventions related to COVID-19
- Coverage: worldwide at the national and first-level administrative unit
- Data format: html for aggregate data, csv for microdata
- By @JohnsHopkinsSPH, @BUSPH, @qulu_zheng, @JustinLessler, @alabriqu, @andrewazman, @Ymax
Coronavirus containment measures dataset and world map
- Focus: containment measures incl. a stringency index as a time series
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: csv and world map
- By @O_LJ
COVID-19 US state policy database (CUSP) and Sources
- Focus: dates of state policy changes in the areas of non-pharmaceutical interventions, social policies, healthcare, racial disparities, etc.
- Coverage: USA (state level)
- Data format: Google sheets, xlsx, csv
- By @JuliaRaifman, @JacobBor, @dklinejones, @DrSarahLipson, @jonjaytweets
socialdistancing.stanford.edu
- Focus: County-level nonpharmaceutical interventions (K-12 school closures, higher education closures, religious gathering cancellations, non-essential business closures, stay-at-home orders)
- Coverage: USA on a county level (currently 274 counties covered)
- Data format: Google sheets, downloadable as csv and xlsx
- Data set
- By @StanfordHCI, @UVA_BI
COVID Analysis and Mapping of Policies (AMP) site
- Focus: non-pharmaceutical interventions
- Coverage: United States (national and sub-national), Nigeria, Djibouti
- Data format: html, xlsx
- By @georgetown_ghss, @TalusAnalytics, @NTI_WMD
COVID19 Afrique Données Recherche
- Focus: non-pharmaceutical interventions; cases and deaths (in French)
- Coverage: Francophone African countries and countries of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- Data format: html
- By @mavalo76, @ValeryRidde
COVID19 Global Travel Navigator
- Focus: travel restrictions, quarantine requirements for travellers
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf, html
- By @Mayer_Brown
EY global immigration tracker
- Focus: mobility and immigration regulations, such as entry restrictions, quarantine orders for newly admitted citizens, visa suspensions or changes in eligibility criteria for visa applications
- Coverage: countries worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @EYnews

2. Macroeconomic and Financial Policy

IMF policy tracker
- Focus: fiscal, monetary and macroprudential
- Country coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
OECD Covid Action Map incl. dataset
- Focus: containment, health, fiscal, monetary
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: xlsx spreadsheet
- By @OECD incl. @OECDeconomy OECD_Social @OECDtax
Yale COVID-19 Financial Response Tracker (CFRT) by the Yale Program on Financial Stability
- Focus: financial stability (incl. fiscal, monetary, macroprudential and liquidity measures)
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: xlsx spreadsheet
wiiw Eastern Europe Coronavirus tracker and summary table
- Focus: fiscal, monetary, public order
- Coverage:23 CESEE countries
- Data format: pdf, html
- By @wiiw_news incl. @RicGri, @JuliaGruebler, @alexbykova, @MarioHolzner
IIF Global Policy Responses
- Focus: fiscal and monetary policy responses
- Coverage: advanced and emerging economies worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @IIF
Bruegel fiscal policy dataset
- Focus: fiscal (3 categories: 1) fiscal impulse 2) deferrals 3) guarantees)
- Coverage: 11 countries (BEL, DNK, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ITA, ESP, GBR, USA)
- Data format: html
- By @ZsoltDarvas, @BergaminiEnrico, @MartaDomnguezJ1
EU and euro area level measures
- Focus: measures proposed and taken at the EU or euro area level to mitigate the economic and social effects.
- Coverage: measures by the EC, EU Council, ECB, SSM, ESRB, EBA, EIB. EIF, EBRD.
- Data format: pdf
- By @europarl_EN
Economic Policy Response Map
- Focus: fiscal and wider liquidity measures
- Coverage: EU governments, European Commission, ECB
- Data format: html
- By @atanaspekanov
COVID-19 Economic Stimulus Index (CESI) and dataset
- Focus: fiscal, monetary & exchange rate measures
- Coverage: 166 countries
- By @CeyhunElgin, @BasbugGokce, @AbdullahYalaman
COVID-19 Fiscal Response Tracker and world map
- Focus: breakdown of major fiscal actions
- Coverage: G20 countries
- Data format: html
- By @CSIS, @CSIS_Econ, @MPGoodman88, @handrewschwartz
IMF Fiscal Monitor
- Focus: key fiscal measures governments have announced or taken from January 1 to April 8, 2020, categorised by above-the-line measures, below-the-line measures, and guarantees
- Coverage: G20 countries + selected countries
- Data format: pdf
- By @IMFNews
Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific
- Focus: Non-pharmaceutical interventions; fiscal, monetary, financial and trade policy;
- Coverage: Asia and the Pacific
- Data format: Tableau; pdf
- By @UNESCAP, @sweta_saxena
The Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker
- Focus: real time tracking of employment, unemployment, consumer spending, job postings, small businesses openings and revenue, students online math coursework
- Coverage: USA aggregate and on a state level
- Data format: html, downloadable soon
- By @OppInsights, Raj Chetty, @John_N_Friedman, @nhendren82, @michaelstepner
U.S. Economic Policy Response to Coronavirus Pandemic
- Focus: economic policy responses, explanation of economic mechanisms at play and references to theory and academic readings on the implemented measures.
- Coverage: USA
- Data format: html
- By @ToddOfMess, @PeterMcCrory
Firm-level risk Covid-19 exposure
- Focus: firm-level measures of exposure, risk, and sentiment to epidemic diseases (covid-19, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, etc.) constructed using textual analysis of quarterly earnings conference calls
- Coverage: 11’000 firms in 81 countries; 2002 to 2020q1
- Data format: csv, tsv, dta
- By @StephanHollan, @L_van_Lent
Covid Stimulus Watch
- Focus: strengthen corporate accountability. It assembles CARES Act recipient data on grants and loans per firm and combines it with information about each firm’s history of regulatory violations, previous government assistance, federal tax avoidance, and CEO and worker pay practices.
- Coverage: US firms receiving grants and loans through the CARES Act. At the moment, it contains more than 5,700 awards, totalling $54 billion.
- Data format: html, downloadable as csv and xml
- By @GoodJobsFirst, @DirtDiggers, @GregLeRoy4
The Weekly Economic Index (WEI)
- Focus: provides a signal of the state of the U.S. economy based on data available at a daily or weekly frequency. It represents the common component of ten different daily and weekly series covering consumer behavior, the labor market, and production, scaled to proxy US GDP growth.
- Coverage: USA
- Data format: xlsx
- By @NewYorkFed, @DallasFed
Real Time Population Survey
- Focus: bi-weekly online household survey that aims to provide more timely and more frequent version of the official labor market survey used to produce unemployment rate numbers etc.
- Coverage: USA
- Data format: html, pdf. No micro data available yet.
- By Alexander Bick, @AdamBlandin, @DallasFed

3. Tax Policy

OECD tax policy dataset
- Focus: tax policy measures incl. a detailed breakdown of cash flow measures and changes in tax policies for firms & households
- Coverage: 91 countries
- Data format: xlsm spreadsheet
- By @OECDtax incl. @DBradbury1021, @THanappi, @PierceOReilly, @jmteusch
OECD tax administration responses dataset
- Focus: 1) additional time for tax affairs, 2) quicker refunds, 3) changes in audit policy, 4) services & communications
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By CIAT/IOTA/OECD
Tax Foundation tax relief dataset
- Focus: individual, business, consumption, and other taxes
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @TaxFoundation, @ElkeAsen, @crisberechet, @danieldbunn

4. Trade Policy and FDI

EY Covid-19 Global Trade Considerations tracker
- Focus: trade policies, such as import tariffs on personal protective equipment, export restrictions on similar goods, relaxing regulatory requirements to help quicker responses.
- Coverage: countries worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @EYnews
Covid-19 Food Policy Tracker
- Focus: food export restrictions and their impact as a percentage of each country’s imported calories that are impacted by export restrictions
- Coverage: countries worldwide
- Data format: csv
- By @IFPRI Dashboard
UNCTAD update on cross border investment flows
- Focus: projections on global FDI and data on CAPEX, greenfield investments, M&As, and MNE earning estimates
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @UNCTAD, @unctadwif incl. @perezludena

Living paper: Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19: A Real-Time Review of Country Measures
- Focus: social protection and jobs
- Countries: worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @Ugentilini, @mohamed_almenfi (WorldBank, ILO, UNICEF)
OECD employment and social policies dataset
- Focus: Employment and social policies
- Coverage: 37 OECD and G20 countries
- Data format: xlsx spreadsheet
- By OECD_Social incl. @AGarnero, @sebkoenigs
ILO collection of country policy responses
- Focus: structured by 4 categories: 1) Stimulating economy & employment 2) Supporting enterprises, jobs, incomes 3) Protecting workers in workplace 4) Relying on social dialogue
- Coverage: 174 countries
- Data format: html
ILO Social Protection Monitor
- Focus: social protection
- Coverage: 46 countries
- Data format: pdf
- Dashboard (regularly updated)
Eurofound COVID-19 EU PolicyWatch
- Focus: social and employment policy responses of government and social partners; examples of company practices aimed at mitigating the social and economic impacts
- Coverage: EU member countries, Norway, United Kingdom
- Data format: html, csv, json
- By @eurofound
Eurofound European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) COVID 19 summary and Database
- Focus: large-scale company restructuring events. It includes company, sector and jobs affected.
- Coverage: EU
- Data format: html
- By @eurofound
ETUC Briefing Notes on national measures
- Focus: short-time work, social protection, employment protection, human rights
- Coverage: Europe
- Data format: pdf
- By @etuc_ces, @ETUI_org
Special Issue: Covid-19 and Labour Law. A Global Review
- Focus: labour law norms and institutions, and workplace arrangements across legal systems
- Coverage: 40 countries worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @labour_e
IGC COVID-19 tracker
- Focus: economic support measures for countries worldwide by 1) wage/employment support, 2) cash transfers, 3) credit schemes/guarantees/ business support, 4) tax delays/deferrals, 5) tax cuts/ cancellations/exemptions/credits, 6) Interest rate cuts/liquidity measures/ other monetary measures
- Coverage: countries worldwide with a focus on developing countries
- Data format: google spreadsheet, downloadable as xlsx or csv
- By @The_IGC
Monitoring the Covid-19 Employment Response: Policy Approaches Across Countries
- Focus: wage & employment support measures and their mechanisms
- Coverage: 16 countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
- Data format: html
- By @Rachel_Lipson, @jnorthend, @HarvardMWC, @Kennedy_School

6. Health and Care Policy

OECD Health System responses summary and dataset
- Focus: health system responses. The policies are structured around 1) access to diagnostics 2) strengthening capacity 3) leverage digital solutions 4) R&D.
- Coverage: mainly OECD + Argentina, Peru, Costa Rica
- Data format: xlsx spreadsheet
- By @OECD_Social incl. @FranColombo2019, @fredguanais
Health System Response Monitor
- Focus: health systems and wider public health initiatives
- Coverage: Europe
- Data format: pdf
- By @OBShealth, @WHO_Europe, @EU_Health, @EU_Commission incl. @BKMErica
International Long-Term Care Policy Network resources and country reports
- Focus: long-term care policy
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @LTCcovid, @AdelinaCoHe, @LorenzKH, @CPEC_LSE, @ilpnetwork
Cambridge Core Health Economics, Policy and Law Blog series is publishing short blogs on country responses
- Focus: health and social care policy issues
- Coverage: selected countries worldwide and US states
- Data format: html
- By @CambridgeCore
IIASA COVID-19: Visualizing regional socioeconomic indicators for Europe
- Focus: socioeconomic indicators, such as life expectancy and population shares elderly, ratios of doctors and hospital beds to elderly population, or the ratio of tourists to local population
- Coverage: Europe on a state/province level
- Data format: html
- By @IIASAVienna incl. @AsjadNaqvi
COVID-19 sex-disaggregated data tracker
- Focus: sex-disaggregated data on cases, deaths, hospitalisations, ICU admissions, age & infections in health care workers
- Coverage: 78 countries
- Data format: downloadable as csv, xlsx, pdf, html
- By @GlobalHlth5050
The COVID Racial Data Tracker
- Focus: cases, deaths and negative test results by race and ethnicity on a bi-weekly basis
- Coverage: US states
- Data format: Google sheets, downloadable as csv
- By @AntiracismCtr, @COVID19Tracking, @TheAtlantic
The Health Foundation COVID-19 policy tracker
- Focus: national government and health and social care system responses in five areas: 1. Policy narrative, 2. Measures to limit spread, 3. Health and social care systems responses, 4. Interventions to support R&D, 5. Broader social and economic interventions
- Coverage: England
- Data format: xlsx
- By @HealthFdn, @hughalderwick

7. Education, Research and Innovation

UNESCO COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response
- Focus: school closures
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html (map ony)
- By @UNESCO
CGD - COVID education policy tracking
- Focus: school closures
- Coverage: countries worldwide and regional level for India, Brazil, Nigeria, USA
- Data format: Google sheets, downloadable as csv, xlsx, pdf, html
- By @CGDev, @leecrawfurd
OECD Survey on Science and Innovation policy responses
- Focus: science and innovation policy responses as self-reported by national government ministries
- Coverage: 33 mainly OECD countries
- Data format: html
- By @OECDinnovation
COVID-19 Social Science Research Tracker
- Focus: new research about COVID 19, including published findings, pre-prints, projects underway, and projects at least at proposal stage. You can add your project via Google form.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: Google sheets, downloadable as csv, xlsx, pdf, html
- By @natematias, @alexleavitt
World Pandemic Research Network (WPRN)
- Focus: collects research projects and maintains a searchable global directory of the scientific resources available on the societal and human impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @WPRN_org
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)
- Focus: covers 52,000 scholarly articles, including over 41,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf, json
- By @allen_ai
- The CORD-19 Explorer allows to easily navigate through the dataset
The Lens COVID19 datasets
- Focus: patent documents, scholarly research works’ metadata and biological sequences from patents. The current patent data relates to previous viral outbreaks from SARS and MERS but patents for COVID-19 will be added once available.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: csv, json
- By @TheLensOrg
Dimensions COVID-19 publications, data sets, clinical trials
- Focus: research outputs in medical and health science, such as journal articles, datasets and clinical trials
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: xlsx spreadsheet
- By @DSDimensions, @digitalsci
COVID Scholar
- Focus: search engine that uses natural language processing (NLP) to search on a set of research papers related to COVID-19. It also shows daily paper statistics on related research articles.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @CovidScholar incl. @KPatBerkeley, @jmdagdelen
Open Government Approaches to Tackling COVID-19
- Focus: a list of open government approaches, such as citizen-led community responses, Building trust between government and citizens, Transparency over forecasting models and data, Digital platforms or apps, Tackling misinformation online
- Coverage: worldwide, country level
- Data format: Google sheet, downloadable as xlsx or csv
- By @opengovpart

8. Regions, Cities, SMEs, Tourism

OECD multilevel governance summary
- Focus: measures taken by national and subnational governments to ensure effective coordination and support regions and cities.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @OECD_local
OECD cities responses summary
- Focus: policy responses taken by cities. They are structured by i) communication & awareness raising ii) workplace & commuting iii) social distance iv) vulnerable groups v) local service delivery vi) support to business.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @OECD_local incl. @Akhmouch
Harvard Resources State and Local Government Practitioners
- Focus: policy solutions
- Coverage: US local and state governments
- Data format: html
- By @HarvardAsh, @Kennedy_School
GovPredict Federal, State, and Local Responses to the Coronavirus
- Focus: federal bills, state bills, governor orders, local documents
- Coverage: US city, county, state, and federal level
- Data format: html
- By @GovPredict
OECD OPSI COVID-19: Innovative responses update
- Focus: innovative government responses
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By OECD @OPSIgov incl. @CaptainInnovate, @SamANutt, @civiccatalyst, @hbuisma
OECD SME policy responses
- Focus: policies that are targeted at SMEs. Measures range from tax deferrals and loan guarantees to direct lending and wage subsidies.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @OECD_local
OECD tourism summary
- Focus: impact on tourism and policy responses to support the tourism industry
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf
- By @OECD_local

9. Behavioural Responses and Mobility

Google Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports
- Focus: mobility trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential. Data is sourced from Google Apps such as Google Maps.
- Coverage: 131 countries, of which many can be disaggregated at the regional level
- Data format: csv data, pdf reports
- By @Google, @googlemaps
Apple Mobility Trends Reports
- Focus: mobility trends. Data can be separated by walking, driving and public transport. Data reflect relative volume of directions requests compared to a baseline volume on 13 January 2020.
- Coverage: countries, regions and cities worldwide
- Data format: csv data, html charts
- By @Apple
The Dallas Fed Social Distancing Index
- Focus: The index summarises the information in seven different variables based on geolocation data collected from a large sample of mobile devices: 1. The fraction of devices leaving home in a day; 2. The fraction of devices away from home for 3-6 hours at a fixed location; 3. The fraction of devices away from home longer than 6 hours at a fixed location; 4. An adjusted average of daytime hours spent at home; 5. The fraction of devices taking trips longer than 16 kilometers; 6. The fraction of devices taking trips less than 2 kilometers; and 7. The average time spent at locations far from home.
- Coverage: USA at county, metropolitan statistical areas (MSA), state and national level.
- Data format: csv
- By @DallasFed

10. Politics, Elections, Policy Making

Global overview of COVID-19: Impact on elections
- Focus: compiles a list of elections postponed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and of elections held despite the outbreak.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @Int_IDEA
Open COVID-19 policy dataset
- Focus: policy documents from think tanks, policy orientated NGOs, IOs and national governments
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: pdf files with an accompanying json file for metadata
- By @overtonio, @Stew
COVID-19 Policy-Making Tracker
- Focus: how policy interventions are being made by collecting advice, evidence or other justifications that underpin governments’ decisions
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @INGSciAdvice, @ISC, @PeterGluckman, @jameswilsdon, @SciChefQC

11. Civic Freedom, Human Rights, Media

COVID19 Civic Freedom Tracker
- Focus: government responses that affect civicfreedoms and humanrights
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @ICNLAlliance, @enablingNGOlaw, @NiAolainF
Tracker 19
- Focus: press freedom. It evaluates the impact on journalism by documenting state censorship and deliberate disinformation, and their impact on the right to reliable news and information. It also makes recommendations on how to defend journalism.
- Coverage: countries worldwide
- Data format: html
- By Reporters Without Borders @RSF_en, @RSF_inter
Civic Space Watch: Solidarity amid the COVID-19 crisis
- Focus: civil society’s and NGOs actions and demands
- Coverage: in European countries and on a European level
- Data format: html
- By @ForCivicEU
Civicus Monitor Tracking Civic Space
- Focus: restrictions and attacks on civic freedoms. Categories include 1) Censorship and restrictions on access to information, 2) Threats and arrests for criticising state response, 3) Restrictions on the media, 4) Passage and use of restrictive laws to counter ‘fake news’, 5) Targeting of human rights defenders, 6) Police abuses during lockdowns, 7) Surveillance and violations of the right to privacy, 8) Overly broad emergency laws and new restrictive legislation.
- Coverage: countries worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @CIVICUSMonitor, @CIVICUSalliance
COVID-19 Public Media Dataset
- Focus: contains over 40,000 online articles with full texts which were scraped from online media in the timespan January – April 2020, focussed mainly on the non-medical aspects of COVID-19.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: csv
- By @Anacode

12. War, Peace and Civil Unrest

Impact:Peace resources on COVID-19
- Focus: resources related to violence, conflict, inequality, peacebuilding
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: google doc
- By @ImpactPeace, @juliascanney
Conflict and Covid-19 Resource Hub
- Focus: conflicts, ceasefires, human rights, elections, emergency legislation, prisoners, etc.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @PolSettlements
COVID-19 Disorder Tracker (CDT)
- Focus: the pandemic’s impact on political violence and protest, monitoring changes in demonstration activity, state repression, mob attacks, overall rates of armed conflict, etc.
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html, data can be exported
- By @ACLEDINFO

13. Prisons, Courts and Judiciary Systems

Coronavirus in Prisons map and database
- Focus: responses in prison systems incl. policy responses, releases, and riots
- Coverage: 76 countries
- Data format: html
- By @OZeveleva
The Marshall Project Coronavirus Tracker
- Focus: prison responses, such as visit restrictions, court operations
- Coverage: U.S. states
- Data format: html
- By @MarshallProj
- Additional resources on the USA on
  - the spread of #COVID19 in prisons,
  - prisoner in- and outflows on a country level and
  - domestic violence reports during the shutdown
Prison Policy: Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Focus: responses of U.S. jails and prisons, such as releasing people early, lowering or stopping jail admissions, limiting check-ins and visits to offices for people on parole, eliminating medical co-pays, reducing the cost of phone calls
- Coverage: U.S. states
- Data format: html
- By @PrisonPolicy
Vera Institute of Justice prison data
- Focus: number of prisoners and #COVID19 cases and deaths per prison
- Coverage: U.S. facility-level
- Data format: Tableau, downloadable as pdf
- By @verainstitute
Brennan Center for Justice Courts’ Responses
- Focus: court operations, postponements of hearings and closures
- Coverage: U.S. federal courts, immigration courts, and state courts
- Data format: html
- By @BrennanCenter
UCLA Law Covid-19 Behind Bars Data Project
- Focus: cases & deaths for each US prison, jail, youth correctional facility and immigration detention facility. It also tracks releases, population reduction requests and responses, legal filings and court orders.
- Coverage: U.S. facility-level
- Data format: Google spreadsheet, downloadable as xlsx or csv
- By @uclaprisondata, @SharonDolovich, @aaronlittman, @uclaprisonlaw
Covid Prison Data
- Focus: cases, tests and deaths among inmates and guards; historical population data for state prisons
- Coverage: U.S. states and facility-level
- Data format: xlsx, csv, html
- By @DataPrison, @JacobKaplan19, @seathebass92, @cconcannon1, @everydayasoreng, @aaronlittman, @nrjones8
Coronavirus: prison fever
- World map of the coronavirus in prisons
- Focus: living conditions in prisons: cases, deaths, appeals, NGO recommendations, protests, sanitary conditions and access to healthcare
- Coverage: worldwide, country level
- Data format: html
- By @PrisonInsider

14. International Development, Philantropy

UNDP HDR Global Preparedness and Vulnerability Dashboard
- Focus: Index for preparedness and vulnerability to pandemics by country. Preparedness index composed of indicators such as Human Development Index, number of physicians and mobile phone subscriptions. Vulnerability index composed of indicators such as population in poverty, population without social protection, remittances inflows or tourism as a share of GDP.
- Coverage: all countries worldwide
- Data format: xlsx, pdf, html
- By @UNDP
- Dashboard
- Report
World Bank Group’s Operational Response to COVID-19 (coronavirus) – Projects List
- Focus: countries that are getting World Bank Group support through the COVID-19 dedicated fast-track facility as well as other financing mechanisms
- Coverage: developing countries worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @WorldBank
African Policy Monitor
- Focus: 1) Emergency declarations, 2) Fiscal Policy Responses, 3) Monetary Policy Responses, 4) Social Distancing Measures, 5) School closures
- Coverage: African countries
- Data format: html
- By @Covid_Africa
Candid Philanthropic funding data
- Focus: private funders and recipients with details on the amount, purpose and geographical distribution
- Coverage: worldwide
- Data format: html
- By @CandidDotOrg
Global Response Funding Tracker
- Focus: global initiatives and financial support packages organised by 1) Financial Support from International Development Partners, 2) IMF and World Bank Support, 3) Philanthropic and Corporate Giving
- Coverage: African countries
- Data format: html tables
- By @Covid_Africa
The ONE Africa COVID-19 Tracker
- Focus: health, economic, and social impacts, such as the number of hospital beds and ICUs; government measures to limit spread of the virus or to limit civil liberties; impact on food intake or remittances
- Coverage: African countries
- Data format: Tableau (not downloadable)
- By @ONECampaign, @David_McNair

15. National Surveys (with probability samples)

edited by @eliasnau

Countries in this section (with number of surveys in brackets): Germany (3), US (2), Netherlands (1), Norway (1), UK(1)

SHARE
- Focus: Employment and financial situation, infection and health, mental health, social networks, healthcare
- Coverage
  - Country: 27 EU countries + Israel
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of population aged 50 and older
  - Time: May/June 2020
  - Interval of data collection: once
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: sub-sample of all SHARE panel respondents
- Micro data availablity: no (planned:yes)
- Data format: .dta, .sav
- By @SHARE_MEA
SOEP-CoV
- Focus: Employment and financial situation, children and family, COVID-related behavior and perceptions, mental health, political attitudes
- Coverage
  - Country: Germany
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of households
  - Time: 30/3/2020 – 28/6/2020
  - Interval of data collection: weekly cross-sections, follow-up survey planned for 2021
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: ~ 7.800 households (300-2000 per week)
- Micro data availablity: no (planned:yes)
- Data format: pdf (research reports)
- By @DIW_Berlin, @unibielefeld
Mannheimer Corona-Studie
- Focus: Employment and financial situation, children and family, COVID-related behavior and perceptions, mental health, political attitudes
- Coverage
  - Country: Germany
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of households/individuals
  - Time: 20/3/2020-03/7/2020
  - Interval of data collection: daily cross-sections, weekly individual panel data
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: ~ 3.500 individuals (~ 500 per day)
- Micro data availablity: no (planned:yes)
- Data format: pdf (daily update)
- By @PolEconReforms, Universität Mannheim
gesis panel
- Focus: Employment and financial situation, children and family, COVID-related behavior and perceptions, mental health, political attitudes
- Coverage
  - Country: Germany
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of individuals
  - Time: 17/3/2020-29/03/2020
  - Interval of data collection: once
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: 3.765 individuals
- Micro data availablity: yes
- Data format: .dta, .sav
- By @GESIS_Panel
Understanding America Study
- Focus: Employment and financial situation, children and family, COVID-related behavior and perceptions, mental health, political attitudes
- Coverage
  - Country: United States
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of U.S. residents
  - Time: since 10/3/2020 (ongoing)
  - Interval of data collection: daily cross-sections, bi-weekly individual level panel
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: ~ 5.500 individuals (~500 per day)
- Micro data availablity: yes
- Data format: .dta, .html (daily updates)
- By USCDornsife
COVID Impact Survey
- Focus: Employment and financial situation, COVID-related behavior and perceptions, mental health
- Coverage
  - Country: United States
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of U.S. adult population
  - Time: 20/4/2020-26/4/2020 (Week 1), 04/5/2020-10/5/2020 (Week 2), 1/6/2020-8/6/2020, ongoing
  - Interval of data collection: monthly cross-sections
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: No
  - Number of observations: ~ 2,200 individuals each month
- Micro data availablity: yes
- Data format: .dta, .sav, .csv
- By @covidimpact, Data Foundation
LISS Panel
- Focus: various topics based on several studies proposed by individual researchers (in addition to the standard monthly LISS questions)
- Coverage
  - Country: Netherlands
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of Dutch Households
  - Time: since March 2020
  - Interval of data collection: monthly
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: ~ 7.000 individuals each month
- Micro data availablity: yes (planned)
- Data format: .dta, .sav
- By @centerdata
Norwegian Citizen Panel
- Focus: Social Sciences, Medicine, Psychology
- Coverage
  - Country: Norway
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of adult population
  - Time: 20 – 29 March
  - Interval of data collection: once, some questions will be repeated in June 2020, August 2020 and October 2020.
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: ~ 12.000 (less in the follow up-studies)
- Micro data availablity: Planned to become available, timing still not decided.
- Data format: .dta, .sav
- By @DIGSSCORE, @uib
Understanding Society
- Focus: Employment and financial situation, children and family, COVID-related behavior and perceptions, mental health, political attitudes
- Coverage
  - Country: UK
  - Target population and sampling: Probability sample of households, population 16+
  - Time: since April 2020 (wave 1), ongoing
  - Interval of data collection: monthly
  - Availability of individual level data from pre-CoVID: Yes
  - Number of observations: ~ 40.000
- Micro data availablity: yes, planned for end of May via UK Data Service
- Data format: .dta, .sav
- By @usociety

16. National and comparative surveys (with non-probability samples)