This repository contains Code and data to connect information on COVID-19 cases in Italy and Germany on a regional level to geographic boundaries and population data. For documentation please see the original data sources and the Code. All required original data is referenced in the code.
Covid cases Italy
- Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Ministero della Salute: https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19
Covid cases Germany
- Robert Koch Institut: https://npgeo-corona-npgeo-de.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/dd4580c810204019a7b8eb3e0b329dd6_0
Covid cases UK
- Pre-processed data provided by Emma Doughty: https://github.com/emmadoughty/Daily_COVID-19
Geographies
- istat Italy: https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/222527
- Robert Koch Institut Germany: https://npgeo-corona-npgeo-de.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/917fc37a709542548cc3be077a786c17_0
- Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie Germany: https://gdz.bkg.bund.de/index.php/default/digitale-geodaten/verwaltungsgebiete/verwaltungsgebiete-1-1-000-000-ebenen-stand-01-01-vg1000-ebenen-01-01.html
- ONS Open Geography Portal: https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/counties-and-unitary-authorities-december-2019-boundaries-uk-buc/data?page=6
Demographic data
- istat Italy: http://dati.istat.it/Index.aspx?QueryId=18460&lang=en
- Regionaldatenbank Deutschland (Zensus 2011 age groups): https://www.regionalstatistik.de/genesis/online/data;sid=FE602C43F3C36B8FA84AAA849E84D6E7.reg2?operation=abruftabelleAbrufen&selectionname=12111-04-01-4&levelindex=0&levelid=1585048532267&index=14
- Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung INKAR (regional statistics 2017): https://www.inkar.de/
All steps for data preparation and plotting are in “01_Script”. Static data (like shape files or population data) and rocessed data are in “02_Data” and Figures in “03_Output”. Original data on COVID cases is not included in this repository but read from the links to original data sources, as specified in script “01_Read-Data.R”. Thus, the output (especially the number of available dates) may change depending on updates of the original data.
Feel free to re-use code and data, but you must consider the data protection regulations and licenses of the original data, when re-using or publishing.
Sorry for the scarce documentation, but for now please refer to the original sources for detailed documenation or see comments in code.
Platform: Windows 10 (x86-64)
Version: R version 3.5.3