Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT)

Final OxCGRT dataset available, June 2023
This repository contains old data. The OxCGRT stopped publishing real-time updates at the end of 2022. A final version of the OxCGRT dataset is available at https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset We recommend people only continue to use this OxCGRT/covid-policy-tracker repository if they need to access old or historical versions of the OxCGRT dataset.

The Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) collected information on which pandemic response measures were enacted by governments, and when. This is a project from the Blavatnik School of Government. More information on the OxCGRT is available on the school's website: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/covidtracker. This README contains information about using the database.

This repository is where we published OxCGRT data in real time across 2020-2023. We recommend people use the final version of the dataset (published in the OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset repository linked above) as this has more jurisdictions, and more consistent data formats between files. This repository remains accessible primarily so people can access historical versions of the dataset. The previous version of this README has been moved to old_README.md.

Citing OxCGRT data

Our data is made available free to use for any purpose under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (see: our license, and a summary of CC BY 4.0 at Creative Commons), this means you must give appropriate credit and link back to our original work. Here are three suggested ways to cite our work:

• Recommended reference for academic publications: Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, Beatriz Kira, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Samuel Webster, Emily Cameron-Blake, Laura Hallas, Saptarshi Majumdar, and Helen Tatlow. (2021). “A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).” Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01079-8
• Short credit for media use (CC BY 4.0 License): Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
• Full credit for media use (CC BY 4.0 License): Thomas Hale, Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, Jessica Anania, Bernardo Andretti de Mello, Noam Angrist, Roy Barnes, Thomas Boby, Emily Cameron-Blake, Alice Cavalieri, Martina Di Folco, Benjamin Edwards, Lucy Ellen, Jodie Elms, Rodrigo Furst, Liz Gomes Ribeiro, Kaitlyn Green, Rafael Goldszmidt, Laura Hallas, Nadya Kamenkovich, Beatriz Kira, Sandhya Laping, Maria Luciano, Saptarshi Majumdar, Thayslene Marques Oliveira, Radhika Nagesh, Annalena Pott, Luyao Ren, Julia Sampaio, Helen Tatlow, Will Torness, Adam Wade, Samuel Webster, Andrew Wood, Hao Zha, Yuxi Zhang. Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.