The Role of Societal Aspects in the Formation of Official COVID-19 Reports: A Data-Driven Analysis

This paper investigates the role of socioeconomic considerations in the formation of official COVID-19 reports. To this end, we employ a dataset that contains 1159 pre-processed indicators from the World Bank Group and platforms and an additional 8 COVID-19 variables generated based on reports from...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-02, Vol.18 (4), p.1505
Main Authors: Kurbucz, Marcell Tamás, Katona, Attila Imre, Lantos, Zoltán, Kosztyán, Zsolt Tibor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air traffic control
Coronaviruses
Correlation analysis
Corruption
COVID-19
Datasets
Humans
Infrastructure
Pandemics
Public Reporting of Healthcare Data
Research Design
Socioeconomic Factors
Source code
Tourism
Variables
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Summary:This paper investigates the role of socioeconomic considerations in the formation of official COVID-19 reports. To this end, we employ a dataset that contains 1159 pre-processed indicators from the World Bank Group and platforms and an additional 8 COVID-19 variables generated based on reports from 138 countries. During the analysis, a rank-correlation-based complex method is used to identify the time- and space-varying relations between pandemic variables and the main topics of World Bank Group platforms. The results not only draw attention to the importance of factors such as air traffic, tourism, and corruption in report formation but also support further discipline-specific research by mapping and monitoring a wide range of such relationships. To this end, a source code written in R language is attached that allows for the customization of the analysis and provides up-to-date results.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph18041505