Pandemic severity indicator for COVID-19 in Germany dataset

The datasets included in this repository represent a pandemic severity indicator for the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany based on a composite indicator for the years 2020 and 2021. The pandemic severity index consists of three indicators: the incidence of patients tested positive for COVID-19, the incidence of patients with COVID-19 in intensive care, and the incidence of registered deaths due to COVID-19. The datasets have been developed within the CODIFF project (Socio-Spatial Diffusion of COVID-19 in Germany) at Leibniz Insitute for Research on Society and Space. The project received funding by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, project number 492338717). The datasets have been used in the following publications, in which further methodological details on the indicator can be found:

• Stabler, M., & Kuebart, A. (2023). Tempo-spatial dynamics of COVID-19 in Germany: A phase model based on a pandemic severity indicator. medRxiv, 2023-02.
• Kuebart, A., & Stabler, M. (2023). Waves in time, but not in space – An analysis of pandemic severity of COVID-19 in Germany. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 2023.

This repository consists of two files:

pandemic_severity_germany

This table contains the composite indicator for daily pandemic severity for Germany on the national scale as well as the three sub-indicators for each day between 2020-03-01 and 2021-12-31. The sub-indicators were sourced from the Robert Koch Institute, the German government agency responsible for disease control and prevention.

pandemic_severity_counties

This table contains the composite indicator for daily pandemic severity for Germany on the level of the 400 individual counties, as well as the three sub-indicators for each day between 2020-03-01 and 2021-12-31. The sub-indicators were sourced from the Robert Koch Institute, the German government agency responsible for disease control and prevention. The counties can be identified by name (kreis) or by county identification number (ags5)