Introduction

This page comprises the additional datasets used for the COVID-19 Global Forecasting Challenge (currently in week 3). Only datasets that have not been hosted on Kaggle will be uploaded here:

• Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker
• Assessment Capacities Project COVID-19 Government Measures

UPDATE: Please see my notebook on the COVID-19 Global Forecasting Challenge (Week 3) competition here for merging the data.

Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker

The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) provides a systematic cross-national, cross-temporal measure to understand how government responses have evolved over the full period of the disease’s spread. The project tracks governments’ policies and interventions across a standardized series of indicators and creates a composite index to measure the stringency of these responses. Data is collected and updated in real time by a team of dozens of students and staff at Oxford University. Read the white paper here. Access the OxCGRT website here.

Indicators

The OxCGRT tracks 11 indicators of government response:

1. School closing (with geographic scope)

• Ordinal scale:
  • 0 = No measures
  • 1 = Recommend closing
  • 2 = Require closing

2. Workplace closing (with geographic scope)

• Ordinal scale:
  • 0 = No measures
  • 1 = Recommend closing
  • 2 = Require closing

3. Cancel public events (with geographic scope)

• Ordinal scale:
  • 0 = No measures
  • 1 = Recommend cancelling
  • 2 = Require cancelling

4. Close public transport (with geographic scope)

• Ordinal scale:
  • 0 = No measures
  • 1 = Recommend closing
  • 2 = Require closing

5. Public info campaigns(with geographic scope)

• Ordinal scale:
  • 0 = No COVID-10 public information campaign
  • 1 = COVID-10 public information campaign

6. Restrictions on internal movement (with geographic scope)

• Ordinal scale:
  • 0 = No measures
  • 1 = Recommend movement restriction
  • 2 = Restricted movement

7. International travel controls

• Ordinal scale:
  • 0 = No measures
  • 1 = Screening
  • 2 = Quarantine on high-risk regions
  • 3 = Ban on high-risk regions

8. Fiscal measures
   • Value of fiscal stimuli in USD
9. Monetary measures
   • Value of interest rate in %
10. Emergency investment in health care

• Value of new short-term spending on health in USD

11. Investment in vaccines

• Value of investment in USD

Indicators with geographic scope are coded in the following way:

• 0 = Targeted
• 1 = General

The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) COVID-19 Government Measures Dataset

This dataset comprises government measures and descriptions of these measures by country and date. The measures include:

1. Social distancing
2. Movement restrictions
3. Public health measures
4. Social and economic measures
5. Lockdowns

Descriptors of these measures include:

• Date of implementation
• Specific measure
• Penalties for non-compliance
• Source (e.g. government, media)