COVID-19 Case Reports in China with Prefectural-Level Details

Manually extracted data from Chinese prefectural-level COVID-19 case disclosures starting in January 2020. Xiao Fan Liu and a team of content coders compiled this dataset, which includes information on mobility, exposure scenarios, and epidemiological characteristics. The detailed data description is available on the SSRN preprint server.

Use Cases

• Modeling disease transmission based on mobility and exposure scenario information.
• Analyzing epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 cases in China.
• Tracking the geographic and temporal evolution of the pandemic at a prefectural level.

Strengths

• Data collection began in early March 2020, providing early-pandemic coverage.
• Information is manually extracted from official public disclosures, suggesting a focus on accuracy.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Xiao Fan Liu

Collection Method

Manual extraction by a team of content coders from public prefectural-level government disclosures.

Time Range

From January 2020 onward.

Geography

China, at the prefectural level.