Table 1.
Summary statistics
| Variable | Mean | Median | Standard deviation | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw data on number of cases | |||||
| New Covid‐19 cases | 6.33 | 2.00 | 13.99 | 0 | 311 |
| Cumulative Covid‐19 cases | 149.50 | 44.00 | 332.20 | 0 | 5600 |
| Raw data on case incidence | |||||
| Covid‐19 incidence rates | 3.09 | 1.15 | 5.44 | 0 | 142.06 |
| Cumulative Covid‐19 incidence rates | 71.26 | 31.35 | 106.26 | 0 | 1517.16 |
| Dependent variable | |||||
| Cumulative incidence growth rate | 0.089 | 0.018 | 0.188 | 0 | 2.833 |
| Containment measures | |||||
| School closure | 0.65 | 1 | 0.48 | 0 | 1 |
| Establishment closure | 0.63 | 1 | 0.48 | 0 | 1 |
| Shopping mall closure | 0.56 | 1 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 |
| Restaurant closure | 0.57 | 1 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 |
| Contact restrictions | 0.54 | 1 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 |
| Face mask duty | 0.01 | 0 | 0.08 | 0 | 1 |
| Cumulative incidence growth rate | 0.089 | 0.018 | 0.188 | 0 | 2.833 |
| Delays between infection/first day of symptoms and reporting | |||||
| Infection and reporting | 11.7 | 10.5 | 6.05 | 3.5 | 34 |
| First symptoms and reporting | 5.5 | 4.0 | 5.72 | 0 | 26 |
Note: Raw data on number of cases comes from RKI (2020a). We conduct our analysis on the NUTS‐3 level with 401 regions. Our analysis starts on February 24 and ends on April 24, 2020, which results in 61 days and 24,451 observations in total. Incidence rates are defined by Covid‐19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. We report the descriptive statistics for the containment measures without time lag. Summary statistics on the delay between first day of symptoms and the day of reporting (reporting lag) are computed from RKI (2020a) database. Summary statistics on delay between infection and the day of reporting (overall lag) come from Mitze et al. (2020). For both delays the extreme values are given by the 1st and 99th percentiles.