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Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 2 Daily queries before and after the first shutdown, 2020 vs. 2021

From: “Too shocked to search” The COVID-19 shutdowns’ impact on the search for apprenticeships

 

2020

2021

Daily queries (7 days average)

Stringency Index

Daily queries (7 days average)

Stringency Index

March, 02.–08.

30,801

0.250

31,005

0.620

March, 09.–15.

26,971

0.349

30,936

0.620

March, 17.–23.

13,261

0.771

30,771

0.620

March, 24.–30.

15,164

0.787

29,035

0.620

  1. Averages of daily queries in week 2 and week 1 before and after the date of the first shutdown, March 16th, 2020. The Stringency Index is a measure for restrictiveness of politically imposed countermeasures, which is described later in this section
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