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COVID-19 US State Policy Database

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Julia Raifman, Boston University School of Public Health; Kristen Nocka, Boston University School of Public Health; David Jones, Boston University School of Public Health; Jacob Bor, Boston University School of Public Health; Sarah Lipson, Boston University School of Public Health; Jonathan Jay, Boston University School of Public Health; Philip Chan, Brown University; Sandro Galea, Boston University School of Public Health

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Project Citation:

Raifman, Julia, Nocka, Kristen, Jones, David, Bor, Jacob, Lipson, Sarah, Jay, Jonathan, … Galea, Sandro. COVID-19 US State Policy Database. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-06-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119446V1

Project Description

Summary: Database of state policies on closures, shelter-in-place orders, housing protections, changes to Medicaid and SNAP, physical distancing closures, reopening, and more created by researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health. Policies included are state-wide directives or mandates, not guidance or recommendations. In order for a policy to be included, it must apply to the entire state. We are working quickly to go through state government websites to make the policy database as complete and accurate as possible in a rapidly changing policy context. If you use data on a given policy, we encourage you to triangulate based on additional sources of policy data and to review the source documentation to consider the coding decisions that are right for your work. Of course, please email us if you note a discrepancy so we can improve the database for everyone. State policy source documentation can be found at: tinyurl.com/statepolicysources.

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage: Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, Tennessee, South Dakota, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Oklahoma, Ohio, North Carolina, North Dakota, New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana, Missouri, Mississippi, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Idaho, Hawaii, Georgia, Florida, District of Columbia, Delaware, Connecticut, Colorado, California, Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Alabama

Time Period(s): 2/2020 – 6/2020

Collection Date(s): 2/2020 – 6/2020

Universe: State policies

Data Type(s): other

Collection Notes: Contributors: Megan Cole Brahim, Noa Krawczyk, Carolyn Hoffman, Claire Corkish, Elizabeth Ferrara, Elizabeth Long, Emily Baroni, Faith Contador, Hannah Simon, Morgan Simko, Rachel Scheckman, Sarah Brewer, Sue Kulkarni, Felicia Heykoop, Manish Patel, Aishwarya Vidyasagaran, Andrew Chiao, Cara Safon, Samantha Burkhart, Harry Jung, Victor Lee, Marina MacKinnon, Aarohi Rede, Marie Vearling, Sophie Li, Christina Wang, Tim Levengood, María Jordán P. Emma Chistolini

Methodology

Data Source: Sources include state mandates, orders, and official governor press releases. All sources are stored at this link: https://tinyurl.com/statepolicysources.

Collection Mode(s): other

Unit(s) of Observation: state policies

Geographic Unit: State

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