Published 2025 | Version 1
Dataset

Center for Disease Control (CDC), COVID-19 Community Intervention and At-Risk Task Force, Monitoring and Evaluation Team & CDC, Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, Public Health Law Program, "State and Territorial COVID-19 Orders and Proclamations for Individuals to Stay Home," (August 15, 2021).

  • 1. University of Chicago
  • 2. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Description

State and territorial executive orders, administrative orders, resolutions, and proclamations are collected from government websites and cataloged and coded using Microsoft Excel by one coder with one or more additional coders conducting quality assurance. Data were collected to determine when individuals in states and territories were subject to executive orders, administrative orders, resolutions, and proclamations for COVID-19 that require or recommend people stay in their homes. Data consists exclusively of state and territorial orders, many of which apply to specific counties within their respective state or territory; therefore, data is broken down to the county level. Data provided by Mara Howard-Williams, Public Health Law Program, Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dataset owner: Craig Kassinger. Data can be used to determine when individuals in states and territories were subject to executive orders, administrative orders, resolutions, and proclamations for COVID-19 that require or recommend people stay at home.

Methods

These data are derived from the publicly available state and territorial executive orders, administrative orders, resolutions, and proclamations ("orders") for COVID-19 that expressly require or recommend individuals stay at home found by the CDC, COVID-19 Community Intervention and At-Risk Task Force, Monitoring and Evaluation Team & CDC, Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, Public Health Law Program from March 15, 2020 through August 15, 2021. These data will be updated as new orders are collected. Any orders not available through publicly accessible websites are not included in these data. Only official copies of the documents or, where official copies were unavailable, official press releases from government websites describing requirements were coded; news media reports on restrictions were excluded. Recommendations not included in an order are not included in these data. These data do not include mandatory business closures, curfews, or limitations on public or private gatherings. These data do not necessarily represent an official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Notes

This data is part of the federal data rescue project undertaken at UChicago January and February 2025.

Additional details

Identifiers

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oai:uchicago.tind.io:14530

Dates

Collected
2020-03-15
Updated
2021-09-10

UChicago Information

Division(s)
Social Sciences Division, Library
Center(s) or Institute(s)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention