Table 1 Name and variables of time series datasets for global holidays and air travel.

From: Global holiday datasets for understanding seasonal human mobility and population dynamics

Name

Variables and explanations

File Format

University of Southampton DOI

Global Public Holidays Data, 2010–201927

ADM_name (Name of the country or territory), ISO3 (ISO 3166 alpha-3 code of the country or territory), Date (DD/MM/YYYY), Name (name of public holiday), and Type (type of public holiday).

csv

https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00689

Global School Holidays Data, 2010–201928

ADM_name, ISO3, Name_short (name of school holiday), Date_b19 & Date_e19 (the beginning date and end date of a school holiday in 2019), …, Date_e10 & Date_e10 (the beginning date and end date of a school holiday in 2010).

csv

https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00690

Daily Time Series of Global Public and School Holidays, 2010–201929

ISO3, Date, ADM_name, Year (2010–2019), Month (1–12), Week (week numbers in a year), Day (day numbers in a month: 1–31), holiday (public holiday: 1 - Yes, 0 - No), school (school holiday: 1 - Yes, 0 - No), and hl_sch (public or school holiday: 1 - Yes, 0 - No).

csv

https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00691

Weekly Time Series of Global Public and School Holidays, 2010–201930

ISO3, ADM_name, Year, Week, holiday, and hl_sch.

csv

https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00692

Monthly Time Series of Global Public and School Holidays, 2010–201931

ISO3, ADM_name, Year, Month, holiday, and hl_sch.

csv

https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00693

Monthly Volume of Airline Passengers in 90 countries, 2010–201832

ISO3, Year, Month, Total (total number of air passengers in thousands, obtained from official statistics; NA – data non-available), Domestic (number of internal air passengers in thousands for a country, obtained from official statistics), International (number of international air passengers in thousands, obtained from official statistics), and Total_OS (total number of air passengers in thousands, obtained from other openly available data sources).

csv

https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00694