Annual Hospital Utilization and COVID-19 Policy Stringency Data

A 5.5 KB Excel file containing yearly data on hospital-based healthcare utilizations, COVID-19 cases, and the Policy Stringency Index. The dataset was authored by Hong Xiao and last updated in March 2026. Row and column counts are unknown.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between the yearly Policy Stringency Index and hospital-based healthcare utilization metrics.
• Model the relationship between annual COVID-19 case counts and hospital utilization figures.
• Track year-over-year changes in the Policy Stringency Index alongside public health outcomes.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly structured as a time series by year, enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Includes the analytically distinct Policy Stringency Index metric alongside health utilization data.
• Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is extremely small at 5.5 KB, indicating very limited scope and likely few data points.
• Lacks metadata on row count, column names, and sample data, hindering assessment of its structure and completeness.
• Geographic coverage and the specific source of the hospital utilization and case data are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Hong Xiao, via figshare.

Collection Method

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Time Range

Data is structured by year, but specific years covered are unknown.

Freshness

Last updated in March 2026.

Geography

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