COVID-19 Resources from international organisations

This page contains links to data and information resources provided by international organizations that are part of the global statistical community. It is updated continuously as more resources become available.

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE)

• Compilation of CPI in times of COVID-19
  • Overview of general challenges and recommendations on how to ensure the production of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), as well as guidance notes by Eurostat and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that provide more detailed recommendations for continuing compilation of the CPI. The website also hosts a discussion forum for experts to share questions, experiences and good practices.

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC)

• Recommendations for the publication of official statistics from household surveys in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
  • Recommendations are on gathering labour market information through household surveys, paying particular attention to the sample designs required for this purpose.
• Contingency plans and recommendations for statistical production in the face of the health emergency generated by COVID-19
  • List of contingency plans by country and links to vide-conferences and other resources.
• COVID-19 and its impact on statistical operations in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Summary of results of questionnaire on measures taken by the National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and other institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean in response to the COVID-19 situation.

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)

• Why we will never know how many people die from COVID-19
  • A blog post on importance of CRVS and cause of death coding.
• Broken down by age and sex: Why reliable and timely population statistics are more important than ever
  • A brief on integrating population and geospatial data in the current COVID-19 situation.
• Stats Brief, February 2020 (Issue no. 23): Surveys under lockdown; a pandemic lesson
  • Overview of COVID-19 impact on data collection operations and possible responses by National Statistical Offices, as well as a proposed mixed-mode panel survey design to enable continuing data collection under lockdown and after pandemic situation.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

• Special topic statistical bulletin on COVID-19 in CARICOM Countries, Issue 1
  • Synopsis of the trajectory of the disease from the confirmation of the first case in the CARICOM Region on 10 March 2020 to the period ending 26 March 2020.
• Special topic statistical bulletin on COVID-19 in CARICOM Countries, Issue 2
  • Update of the trajectory of COVID 19 in the CARICOM Region up to 3 April 2020.
• Stats News and Views Special Topic Statistical Bulletin
  • Page providing access to all Stats News and Views Special Topic Statistical Bulletin: COVID-19 and Dashboards of COVID-19 in the Caribbean Community

European Central Bank

• ECB communication to reporting agents on the collection of statistical information1 in the context of COVID-19

• Supervisory reporting measures in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Eurostat

• Guidelines and methodological notes
  • New guidelines and methodological notes published by Eurostat on how to address the methodological issues triggered by changes in statistical production as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Internatinal Labour Organisation (ILO)

• ILOStat COVID-19 website
  • Resources for monitoring the COVID-19 impact on labour markets and the continuity of collection of labour statistics.
• COVID-19 and the world of work
  • Dedicated website to address the global crisis in the world of work.
• Monitoring labour markets amid lockdowns to contain the COVID-19 virus: Essential labour force survey content and treatment of special groups
  • Guidance to data producers to maintain labour force survey (LFS) operations. It highlights the range of topics to prioritize in national LFS and suggested clarifications to support consistent treatment of special cases becoming more prevalent, such as job absences of uncertain duration, business closures, and overall reduced job search activity.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• AI-powered COVID-19 watch
  • AI-powered tool to follow latest COVID-19 developments by country in real time.
• COVID-19 portal
  • Resources and solutions for monitoring and mitigating the impacts and consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
• OECD / GovLab call for evidence on the use of open government data to address COVID-19 crisis
  • Crow-sourced repository of country practices in using open government data to manage the different facets of the COVID-19 crisis. It complements the Living repository for data collaboratives seeking to address the spread of COVID-19 and its secondary effects, maintained by the GovLab.

The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21)

• PARIS21 COVID-19 Task Force
  • PARIS21 has convened a COVID-19 Task Force to engage and support our NSO partners across the globe, with the aim to mitigate the effect of the evolving global crisis on their daily operations, medium-term activities and long-term development.
• Policy brief: Combating COVID-19 with data: what role for National Statistical Systems?
  • Policy brief introducing a conceptual framework that describes the adverse effects of the crisis on NSSs in developing countries. It also suggests short and medium-term actions to mitigate the negative effects by (1) focusing data production on priority economic, social and demographic data, (2) communicating proactively with citizens, academia, private sector and policy makers, and (3) positioning the NSO as advisor and knowledge bank for national governments.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• UNESCO’s support: Educational response to COVID-19
  • COVID-19 response initiatives with focus on education.
• COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response
  • Global monitoring of country-wide and localized school closures and how learners are not being able to attend schools due to the pandemic.

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

• Data to inform the COVID-19 response
  • Latest data from UNICEF’s global databases that are relevant to the COVID-19 response for children, featuring a dashboard for country-level data by gender, residence and wealth quintile.
• COVID-19 pandemic and implementaiton of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
  • Guidance note on the implementation of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) during the period with restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• COVID-19 data from Belize MICS Plus pilot
  • First results of the MICS Plus pilot in Belize (mobile-phone based data collection from a sub-sample of MICS respondents on a monthly basis). This will be progressively populated every two weeks, with new data from Belize.

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

• Coronavirus: the economic impact
  • UNIDO’s early assessment of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

• Census status dashboard
  • Interactive application providing an overview of latest postponements and disruptions to the 2020 Census Round.
• Technical brief on the implications of COVID-19 on census
  • Contains a sample of countries already altering census plans in light of COVID-19, as well as key recommendations and resources for countries. The brief also discusses the importance of advocacy and sustaining census capacity-strengthening virtually, particularly in view of potential long-term financial constraints resulting from the COVID-19 crisis.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

• Data Responsibility Guidelines
  • Principles, processes and tools that support the safe, ethical and effective management of data in humanitarian response.
• The Humanitarian Data Exchange: COVID-19 Pandemic Data
  • Open platform for sharing COVID-19 data.

UN Women

• COVID-19: Emerging gender data and why it matters
  • UN Women’s new data resource on gender and COVID-19.

The World Bank

• Understanding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic through data
  • Real-time data, statistical indicators, and other types of data that are relevant to the coronavirus pandemic, drawn from the World Bank’s data catalog and other authoritative sources. This page is updated frequently as more data and research becomes available, particularly on the economic and social impacts of the pandemic and the World Bank’s efforts to address them.
• LSMS launches high-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19
  • Support provided by the World Bank, together with NSO partners, to set up phone surveys to monitor socio-economic impacts of COVID-19.

World Customs Organization (WCO)

• HS Classification Reference for COVID-19 Medical Supplies
  • Non-exhaustive list according to HS codes for medical supplies that should be particularly facilitated during the COVID-19 crisis.

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation dashboard
  • Interactive dashboard with latest data on COVID-19 cases.
• COVID-19 News Map
  • Coronavirus news as reported through publicly available web sites.
• COVID-19 Website
  • Country and technical guidance, situation reports, public and travel advice, and additional information resources on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).