COVID Border Accountability Project, a hand-coded global database of border closures introduced during 2020.

ABSTRACT: Quantifying the timing and content of policy changes affecting international travel and immigration is key to ongoing research on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the socioeconomic impacts of border closures. The COVID Border Accountability Project (COBAP) provides a hand-coded dataset of >1000 policies systematized to reflect a complete timeline of country-level restrictions on movement across international borders during 2020. Trained research assistants used pre-set definitions to source, categorize and verify for each new border policy: start and end dates, whether the closure is "complete" or "partial", which exceptions are made, which countries are banned, and which air/land/sea borders were closed. COBAP verified the database through internal and external audits from public health exper

SUBMITTER: Shiraef MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8481472 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature