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

Marcell Tamás Kurbucz, Attila Imre Katona, Zoltán Lantos and Zsolt Tibor Kosztyán
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Marcell Tamás Kurbucz: Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pannonia, Egyetem Street 10, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary
Attila Imre Katona: Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pannonia, Egyetem Street 10, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary
Zoltán Lantos: Health Experience Institue, Közraktár Street 30-32, H-1093 Budapest, Hungary
Zsolt Tibor Kosztyán: Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pannonia, Egyetem Street 10, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: 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 GovData360 and TCdata360 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.

Keywords: COVID-19; country reports; socioeconomic analysis; data-driven approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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