Skip to main content
. 2022 Mar 29;9:112. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01245-1

Table 2.

The table reports the covariates, other than epidemiological variables, included in the database and their coverage as of November 27, 2021.

Field Description N. of Administrative Areas
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
id Unique identifier for the geographical entity 236 763 12,124
administrative_area_level Level of the administrative area: 1 for countries; 2 for states, regions, cantons, or local equivalent; 3 for cities, municipalities, or local equivalent 236 763 12,124
administrative_area_level_1 Name of the administrative area of level 1 236 763 12,124
administrative_area_level_2 Name of the administrative area of level 2 763 12,124
administrative_area_level_3 Name of the administrative area of level 3 12,124
latitude Latitude 229 763 12,124
longitude Longitude 229 763 12,124
population Total population 235 763 12,124
iso_alpha_3 3-letter code of the country according to the standard ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 233 763 12,124
iso_alpha_2 2-letter code of the country according to the standard ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 233 763 12,124
iso_numeric Numeric code of the country according to the standard ISO 3166-1 Numeric 232 763 12,124
iso_currency 3-letter code of the currency used in the country according to the standard ISO 4217 233 763 12,124
key_local The administrative area identifier used by the local authorities, usually the national institute of statistics or local equivalent. E.g., FIPS codes for United States, IBGE codes for Brazil, ISTAT codes for Italy, etc. 568 12,053
key_google_mobility The place_id used in Google Mobility Reports. The identifier also allows to interact with the Google Places and Google Maps API 135 539 6,825
key_apple_mobility The administrative area identifier identifier used in Apple Mobility Reports. This is constructed by concatenating region and, when not null, sub-region in Apple Mobility Reports: i.e., <region>, <sub-region> 67 475 2,159
key_jhu_csse The administrative area identifier identifier used in the JHU CSSE Unified COVID-19 Dataset. In particular, this enables to match administrative areas with the Hydromet dataset 192 508 10,708
key_nuts The 2021 NUTS codes for Europe, by Eurostat 232 1,864
key_gadm The identifier (GID) used in the GADM database version 3.6 233 760 11,977

The last three columns report the number of countries (level 1), sub-national regions (level 2), and lower-level administrative areas (level 3) for which the corresponding variable is available.