Items corresponding to entire populations or subpopulations. Might be geographically or temporally temporally limited.

population

The dataset tracks the closures of educational institutions due to COVID-19. It includes pre-primary, primary, secondary, and university school closures around the world and the type of closures - whether the closures are country-wide closures or localized closures (in certain local regions in a country) in each country.

non-collection specific

(Complex) Released

XLSX

Country

Earth

English

CC BY 4.0

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

COVID-19 impact on education

a census of infectious disease control strategies put into place to reduce infection acquisitions that are part of an infection in an ecosystem.

control strategy census

Control Strategy

A species of BETACORONAVIRUS causing atypical respiratory disease (COVID-19) in humans. The organism was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. The natural host is the Chinese intermediate horseshoe bat, RHINOLOPHUS affinis.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

SARS-CoV2

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Host

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

Disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder

infectious disease

Infectious Disease

an infectious disease control strategy census that is about school closure infectious disease control strategies implemented in a particular geographical region.

school closure control strategy census

School Closure

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

viral Infectious disease

Viruses Infection

An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's physical expression of sexual characteristics.

phenotypic sex

Vaccine preventable diseases are those infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination

vaccine-preventable Disease

Vaccine-Preventable Disease

A respiratory tract infection caused by a virus. Viruses represent the most common causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections and include rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

viral respiratory tract infection

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection

A census that is the specific outcome of a population demographic survey.

population demographic census

Population Demographic

Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

Viruses

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Pathogen

A collection of information in various types of structured or non-structured formats.

repository

The 'about' property contains mixed types: DefinedTerm objects represent subject matter/topics, while Place objects represent geographical scope or applicability

about-property-structure

Apache 2.0

Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the web

Schema.org

A structured data markup specification for describing datasets in the life sciences, extending schema.org Dataset

Bioschemas Dataset Profile

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms - refined elements for precise resource description

DCMI Metadata Terms

W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary for describing data catalogs

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataCite metadata schema for research data citation

DataCite Metadata Schema

W3C Provenance Ontology for describing provenance information

PROV Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology for metadata about web resources

PAV Ontology

Custom MIDAS vocabulary for epidemiological data and modeling

MIDAS Metadata Vocabulary

OBO Foundry ontologies for life sciences and biomedical research

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology

GeoNames Ontology

Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7 FHIR

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms

SNOMED Clinical Terms

LOINC database for laboratory and clinical observations

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

Landing page where users can browse and download dataset files in various formats.

Identifier	URL:https://data.humdata.org/dataset/global-school-closures-covid19
Type	Repository
Biological Scale	population
Collection End Date
Language	English
Topics	Control Strategy School Closure Disease Infectious Disease Vaccine-Preventable Disease COVID-19 Viruses Infection Viral Respiratory Tract Infection COVID-19 Host Homo sapiens Pathogen Viruses SARS-CoV2 Population Demographic Sex
Geographical Scope	Earth
Geographical Resolution	Country
Start Date	2020/02/16
End Date
Version	unspecified
Accessible For Free	TRUE
License	CC BY 4.0
Rights	unspecified
HTTP Status Code	202
HTTP Checked On	2025/10/20