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Stringency Index & Containment and Health Index Calculation #236

Closed cansurmeli closed 3 years ago

cansurmeli commented 3 years ago

Hey.

Could someone please provide the exact formulas used to calculate the stringency index and containment and health index calculation in the policy data for Covid-19.

I'm doing a research on Covid-19 and would really like to know how these two indexes are calculated. I've read in datapackage.json that, for instance, the stringency index is the additive score of nine indicators and then resampled to vary in between 0 and 100. Although which nine indicators and how the resampling is done?

Thank you.

edomt commented 3 years ago

Hi @cansurmeli

We import this data directly from the dataset published by the Blavatnik School of Government in this repo: https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-tracker/

You should find very good documentation over there, but for further questions you can directly ask on their side.