Social Science Data and Statistics Resources

Includes world map, USA map, critical trends, and more. Updated daily.

Interactive map shows where the number of new cases is rising and where it is falling in the last 14 days. Updated daily.

Data behind the map available on GitHub: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/excess-deaths

This article from the Economist compares weekly death rates to previous years. Raw data available on GitHub: https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker

A collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Antiracist Research & Policy Center gathering the most complete race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the United States.

Launched by The Atlantic; compiles the latest numbers on tests, confirmed cases, hospitalizations, and patient outcomes from every US state and territory.

Updated regularly with thousands of scholarly articles & preprints, as well as related historical coronavirus research. Includes built-in digital humanities tools to extract information through SPIKE-CORD
and visually investigate associations through SciSight.

A comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 countries

The Index combines measures from multiple sources and perspectives to offer a broad view of the health protections in place for the nation as a whole and for each U.S. state. The Index identifies strengths as well as gaps in the protections needed to keep people safe and healthy in the face of large-scale public health threats, and it tracks how these protections vary across the United States and change over time.

Run by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Wellcome Trust, synthesizes global, health-related funding efforts in near real-time, from pledge to disbursement.

Economics papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research related to Covid-19

Demographic and Economic
Resources

Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements (DIP 2020.08.12) have compiled a dataset of central banks’ policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It covers more than 900 announcements by 39 central banks, grouped by monetary tool: interest rates, reserve policies, lending operations, foreign exchange, and asset purchases. The researchers also “provide further details relevant to each type of tool, such as the maturity and whether the instrument was new to the central bank or not.

The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey “is a 20-minute online survey studying how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting households across the country from a social and economic perspective,” and asks questions about food security, housing, telework, and more. It has collected more than 2 million responses since last April, with results published on a rolling basis via microdata files, statistical tables, and interactive graphics.

Urban Institute cleaned data: https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/census-pulse-public-use-files-questionnaire-two