A Joint Dataset of Official COVID-19 Reports and the Governance, Trade and Competitiveness Indicators of World Bank Group Platforms

The presented cross-sectional dataset can be employed to analyze the governmental, trade, and competitiveness relationships of official COVID-19 reports. It contains 18 COVID-19 variables generated based on the official reports of 138 countries, as well as an additional 2163 governance, trade, and competitiveness indicators from the World Bank Group GovData360 and TCdata360 platforms in a preprocessed form. The current version was compiled on July 27, 2020. Note that this version uses 20-40-60-80-day time windows and the first test data are based on the first country reports on tests. Please cite as: • Kurbucz, M. T. (2020). A Joint Dataset of Official COVID-19 Reports and the Governance, Trade and Competitiveness Indicators of World Bank Group Platforms. Data in Brief, 105881. Data generation: • Data generation (data_generation. Rmd): Datasets were generated with this R Notebook. It can be used to update datasets and customize the data generation process. Datasets: • Country data (country_data.txt): Country data. • Metadata (metadata.txt): The metadata of selected GovData360 and TCdata360 indicators. • Joint dataset (joint_dataset.txt): The joint dataset of COVID-19 variables and preprocessed GovData360 and TCdata360 indicators. • Correlation matrix (correlation_matrix.txt): The Kendall rank correlation matrix of the joint dataset. Raw data of figures and tables: • Raw data of Fig. 2 (raw_data_fig2.txt): The raw data of Fig. 2. • Raw data of Fig. 3 (raw_data_fig3.txt): The raw data of Fig. 3. • Raw data of Table 1 (raw_data_table1.txt): The raw data of Table 1. • Raw data of Table 2 (raw_data_table2.txt): The raw data of Table 2. • Raw data of Table 3 (raw_data_table3.txt): The raw data of Table 3.