SPRC19: State Policy Responses to COVID-19 Database

SPRC19 seeks to document as completely as possible all U.S. state policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes all policy actions originating from the executive (governor’s office as well as executive agencies), legislative, and judicial branches. An action represents any change in current COVID-19 policy set at the state level. Actions are identified by reading through source documents collected from state websites and other sources according to their effects on any of over two hundred different policy areas. Each action is coded on a variety of features. These include its policy topic area, the branch that made the action, the announcement date, the effective date, an expiration date (if given), and the relationship to prior actions in the same policy area. To access the data and documentation quickly, search the Table view for "SPRC19" or switch to the Tree view. SPRC19 contains nearly 45,000 policy actions covering over 200 different policy areas. The current version is completed through March 31, 2021. We are currently working to enter and code data through June 2021. The current release extends the previous release by adding actions from January through March 2021 and makes corrections to some entries in 2020 (see documentation). The SPRC19 database was assembled with the support of the National Science Foundation through the following grants (grants #1558509, #1637095, #1558661, #1558781, #1558561, #2028724, #2028675, and #2028674, #2148216) and the NIH (grant #1R21AI164391-01).