This causes problems with a couple of small regions on the islands. For example, the data for Italy was always released at the 2021 NUTS boundaries definitions. Not all countries match perfectly to NUTS 2016 boundaries. While some countries just rename regions, others actually change, merge, and shift boundaries. The process of homogenization has its own set of challenges. But since most of the regional data on Eurostat is at the 2016 level, this tracker homogenizes data records also at the NUTS 2016 boundaries. Currently the 2021 NUTS regions have come into effect since 1st January 2021. The NUTS regions are redefined every afew years (2013, 2016, 2021). Several countries provide data at finer LAU levels. Currently only one level of LAU is documented by the European Commission. These are referred to as Local Administrative Units or LAUs, where LAU1 (districts) and LAU2 (municipalities) were formerly NUTS4 and NUTS5 regions respectively. Most countries release information at administrative units lower than NUTS3. NUTS0 are countries, NUTS1 are typically provinces, NUTS2 are typically districts, and NUTS3 are typically sub-districts. For consistency, the European Commission and the Eurostat, have homogenous units called NOMENCLATURE OF TERRITORIAL UNITS FOR STATISTICS or NUTS. These can be easily extracted from the scripts provided.Ĭountries in European define regions differently, and therefore, making data homogeneous is a challenging task. Therefore, this database currently only focuses on reported cases, even though for most countries other information exists in the raw files as well. Not all countries release regional data on deaths, tests performed, hospitalization rates, vaccination rates, or information by gender and age groups. Information provided by countries is also not consistent. In case of the latter, one can likely find data scraped from websites especially on platforms like GitHub.
While most countries allow access to regional data in some form, others do not release this information publicly. As a result, each country has to be dealt with individually. While countries host the data on these websites, some just export it to third-party repositories, for example, ArcGIS Hub and GitHub. The responsibility of providing the data ranges from official government websites, to national statistical agencies, and to health ministries. Access to data behind these visualizations varies from country to country.
For comments, feedback, and other queries please e-mail at or project is supported by:Īlmost all countries in Europe showcase COVID-19 data in the form of heatmaps and trend graphs. The underlying data structures are constantly being updated and there might be still undetected issues in the final files. Please cite the above DOIs if you are using this dataset. It takes about 30-40 minutes to run all the scripts and upload them to GitHub. Otherwise, please feel free to request one. All raw data and scripts are available here in case more frequent updates are required. This repository is updated every four weeks.
The Tracker is now published in Nature Scientific Data: This repository takes a stock of COVID-19 datasets for 26 European countries at the regional NUTS3 or NUTS2 level. Last updated on: 10 September 2022.This project is now archived and will only have ad-hoc updates.Ĭlick here for an interactive dashboard Overview
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