Data used in the article "Fear or price? Vulnerability of the interest in green transport to COVID dynamics and fuel prices in V4 economies" (DOI: 10.14254/2071-789X.2025/18-1/4). The data covers the period from January 2020 to the end of February 2023. It includes weekly data on consumer prices of petroleum products (PB95) inclusive of duties and taxes (data source: weekly oil bulletin prepared by the European Commission) and the results of Google search terms related to public transport, alternative transport and electric cars in Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden. We considered the total Google search volume related to a given means of transport for various phrases in national languages. Lastly, we include the data on the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases per week cases provided by World Health Organization.
The dataset consists of 6 files: Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Each file stores the analogous data collected for each country. Column names:
PB - price (in Euro) of the 95-PB petrol;
ecar - number of Google searches for the keywords related to electric cars;
pubTR - number of Google searches for the keywords related to public transport;
susTR - number of Google searches for the keywords related to alternative transport;
pubTR_sa - de-seasoned number of searches for the keywords related to public transport;
susTR_sa - de-seasoned number of searches for the keywords related to alternative transport;
COV - number of COVID deaths.