September 20, 2025 Dataset Open Access

COVID-19 Policy Response Monitor for German Federal States (CPRM-Ger): A Dataset on Non-pharmaceutical Interventions in Germany

Schumacher, Helge; Schmidtmann, Birte; Ansion, Julia; Bekler, Sara; Eddelbüttel; Frizen, Janna; Groß, Katharina; Hopf, Andreas; Izotova, Anastasia; Leichte, Daniel; Mehwald, Hannes; Noack, Liisa; Thies, Tim; Wershoven, Jana

The COVID-19 Policy Response Monitor for German Federal States builds on the idea and methodology of the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) and is adapted to the specific conditions of the German federal system (see Codebook).

The presented dataset contains a collection of 31 types of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) that were implemented in the 16 German federal states between March 12 and August 31, 2020. Depending on the level of strictness of the applied measures, an overall Stringency index as well as eight Sub-indices regarding Events and gatherings, Movement, Childcare and education, Business, Food and catering, Leisure facilities, Health sector, and Public hygiene have been calculated for each federal state.

 

Sub-indices and items:

E - Events and gatherings

E1 - Indoor public event restriction

E2 - Outdoor public event restriction

E3 - Private gathering in public restriction

E4 - Private gathering on private property restriction

E5 - Religious gathering restriction

E6 - Freedom of assembly restriction

E7 - Private special event restriction

 

M - Movement

M1 - Stay at home orders

M2 - Public transport closing

M3 - Internal movement restriction

M4 - International travel restriction

M5 - Tourism restriction

 

C - Childcare and education

C1 - Kindergarten closing

C2 - School closing

C3 - University closing

 

B - Business

B1 - Shop closing

B2 - Close-contact services closing

F - Food and catering

 

F1 - Restaurant closing

F2 - Snack stand closing

F3 - Bar closing

 

L - Leisure facilities

L1 - Playground closing

L2 - Outdoor sports facility closing

L3 - Indoor sports facility closing

L4 - Leisure park and zoo closing

L5 - Theatre, cinema and seated concert closing

L6 - Museum and exhibition closing

L7 - Music club and concert closing

 

H - Health sector

H1 - Health and nursing services restriction

H2 - Hospital visitors restriction

H3 - Nursing facility visitors restriction

 

P - Public hygiene

P1 - Person-to-person distance obligation

P2 - Facemask obligation* (not included in Stringency Index to avoid double counting)

 

The coding guidelines are availible in German only.