Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nat Hum Behav. 2021 Apr;5(4):529-538. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8. Epub 2021 Mar 8.
COVID-19 has prompted unprecedented government action around the world. We introduce the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), a dataset that addresses the need for continuously updated, readily usable and comparable information on policy measures. From 1 January 2020, the data capture government policies related to closure and containment, health and economic policy for more than 180 countries, plus several countries' subnational jurisdictions. Policy responses are recorded on ordinal or continuous scales for 19 policy areas, capturing variation in degree of response. We present two motivating applications of the data, highlighting patterns in the timing of policy adoption and subsequent policy easing and reimposition, and illustrating how the data can be combined with behavioural and epidemiological indicators. This database enables researchers and policymakers to explore the empirical effects of policy responses on the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths, as well as on economic and social welfare.
COVID-19 促使全球各国政府采取了前所未有的行动。我们引入了牛津 COVID-19 政府应对追踪器（OxCGRT），这是一个数据集，旨在提供有关政策措施的持续更新、易于使用和可比较的信息。自 2020 年 1 月 1 日起，该数据捕获了与关闭和遏制、卫生和经济政策相关的政策，涵盖了 180 多个国家以及几个国家的次国家管辖区。政策反应按序或连续尺度记录在 19 个政策领域，捕捉了反应程度的变化。我们提出了数据的两个应用案例，强调了政策采用的时间模式以及随后的政策放宽和重新实施，并说明了如何将数据与行为和流行病学指标结合使用。该数据库使研究人员和政策制定者能够探索政策应对措施对 COVID-19 病例和死亡传播以及经济和社会福利的实际影响。
