Catalog / Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

oxcgrt

Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Name: Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Creator: Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)HealthSociety & Well-Being

Source: Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (CC BY 4.0)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

8,635

Temporal coverage

2020-01-01 – 2022-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Source: Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (CC BY 4.0)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset
Provider terms: https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset

How to cite

Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Retrieved from https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download oxcgrt series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/oxcgrt
Update cadence: static
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single file data/clean_full/oxcgrt/oxcgrt.parquet, columns series_key/obs_date/value, series_key='OXCGRT:<indicator>:<iso3>'. Written via streaming pq.ParquetWriter flushing every BATCH=1,000,000 obs. Plus two log/err text files in the dir.

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets