Data Resources on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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A number of national and international research projects are currently underway that empirically
record the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection is wide and ranges
from snapshots of surveys with self-selected samples, representative surveys, longitudinal studies,
experiments, etc..
IZA’s Research Data Center (IDSC) collects and curates the information on such new initiatives.
Projects with high research output based on number of IZA Discussion Papers or otherwise are
promoted especially as “featured resources” on the top of our website.
Please contact the IDSC of IZA for any suggestions of further content at
idsc@iza.org.
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BfR-Corona-Monitor
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The BfR Corona-Monitor is a recurring representative survey of the German population's perception of risks from the new type of coronavirus. Since 24 March 2020, randomly selected people have been asked by telephone every Tuesday about their perception of the risk of infection and the protective measures they have taken.
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BIDCOFU Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The survey collected a sample of approximately 1,500 UK respondents in Prolific, an online platform collection that connects researchers with participants, who get paid cash for taking part in research. The sample is representative of the UK population with regards age, sex and ethnicity and should be available in August 2020.
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The survey was launched June 2020 and announced with the title “BIDCOFU Survey” with the following brief summary: This study is conducted by researchers from the University of Exeter. Participants will be asked to answer a set of questions on demographic patterns. This includes questions that may be sensitive, including but not limited to questions related to COVID-19, mental health and well-being, physical health and health-related behaviors, concerns and perceptions about COVID-19, its prevalence and lethality, expectations on COVID-19 and unemployment, employment and job characteristics, non-labor market time and changes, behaviors when going out, views on the effectiveness of masks.
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Central Asia Barometer Survey Wave 10
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The survey features data from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. The survey includes data gathered from respondent’s opinions on social issues, international relations, economics, COVID 19, and many other important topics.
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Public Health includes concerns about COVID-19, trust for government source information about COVID-19, governmental measures and restrictions, resources to fight COVID-19, the country best able to provide aid to fight COVID-19, readiness to take a COVID-19 vaccine, preferences over COVID-19 vaccine.
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COVID-19 Data from the CPS
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Starting in May 2020, a series of questions were added to the Current Population Survey related to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. The first 4 questions concerned how an individual’s labor force characteristics may have been caused by the pandemic. These questions will remain in CPS for the foreseeable future. A fifth set of questions captured whether the pandemic caused anyone in the household to need medical care for something other than Coronavirus, but not get it because of the pandemic. These questions will be (were) dropped from the CPS starting in November 2020.
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#14182
Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival
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#13334
COVID-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers
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#13827
COVID-19 School Closures and Parental Labor Supply in the United States
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#13282
COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data
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#13802
Employment Opportunities and High School Completion during the COVID-19 Recession
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#14883
Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID-19 Recession
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#14223
From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
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#15086
Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the COVID Pandemic?
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#13643
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality
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#13443
Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status
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#13397
Lockdown Accounting
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#14408
Mothers' Caregiving during COVID: The Impact of Divorce Laws and Homeownership on Women's Labor Force Status
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#14166
Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons from the Great Recession
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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
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#14108
The COVID-19 Pandemic's Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market: Who's Been Hurt and What We Should Do
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#13266
The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19
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#14272
The Effect of a Health and Economic Shock on the Gender, Ethnic and Racial Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from COVID-19
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#14811
The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty
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#13311
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
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#13707
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
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#13264
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
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#13532
The New Hazardous Jobs and Worker Reallocation
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#13159
The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response
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#15136
The Unemployed with Jobs and without Jobs
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#14454
UI Generosity and Job Acceptance: Effects of the 2020 CARES Act
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#13294
Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy
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#15118
Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
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Work That Can Be Done from Home: Evidence on Variation within and across Occupations and Industries
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#14508
Young and Hungry? Employment Levels for Young People During Spring 2021
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COVID-19 is Rapidly Changing: Examining Public Perceptions and Behaviors in Response to this Evolving Pandemic.
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The researchers conducted an online survey of Australian residents between 18 and 24 March 2020. Proportional quota sampling was used to ensure that respondents were demographically representative of the general public, with quotas based on age, gender and state/territory. Respondents were required to be 18 years or older and to speak English.
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Respondents were asked to rate the perceived level of effectiveness in reducing the risk from COVID-19. These items included those promoted by the government and those that were not (mask use when not symptomatic, taking antibiotics). The strategies were grouped into: hygiene related behaviors (hand washing/sanitizing, cleaning surfaces) and avoidance-related behaviors (avoiding crowds, public transport, and complying with quarantine restrictions). Included was also a question that assessed the respondent’s ability to adopt to different social distancing strategies (working from home, keeping children home from school, avoiding travelling, avoiding large crowds, quarantine if exposed, and isolation if symptomatic. The last section of the survey included items focused on self-isolation. Respondents were asked to comment on their willingness to comply, their level of concern regarding the impact on being placed into self-isolation (at home), their ability to comply, their access to assistance from family/friends and issues they have with the strategy.
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COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The aim of the project is to repeatedly get an insight into how the population perceives the corona pandemic: how the “psychological situation” is emerging. The aim is to to monitor public perceptions of risk, protective and preparedness behaviors, public trust, as well as knowledge and misinformation to enable government spokespeople, the media, and health organizations to implement adequate responses. The study design allows rapid and adaptive monitoring of these variables over time and assessing the relations between risk perceptions, knowledge and misinformation to preparedness and protective behavior regarding COVID-19 in Germany.
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The study participants are invited through an online panel provider. Every week, a representative distribution of the N = 1,000 respondents between the ages of 18-74 is selected based on the census data from Germany. Wave 1 interviewed 977 people. Quotations are made according to age / gender (crossed) and federal state (uncrossed).
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ESPACOV - Estudio Social sobre la Pandemia de COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19ESPACOV examines the opinions of Spain’s citizenry regarding the multifaceted crisis originated by the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing mainly on assessments of actual and potential non-pharmaceutical interventions. The questionnaire also comprises items on the lockdown experience as such, the degree of concern regarding the possibility of infection, as well as the social and economic impact of this crisis. The survey was fielded in the fourth week of the generalized lockdown imposed on March 14th, 2020, by the Spanish government. The obtained sample amounts to N=2,391.
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European Skills and Jobs Survey COVID-19 and Labor Market
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Cedefop is designing the second wave of its European skills and jobs survey (ESJS). A second wave, in the first half of 2021, will address the ongoing policy debate about the impact of digitalisation on jobs and the nature of work, as well as heightened concerns about what may be a long-term effect of the coronavirus crisis on EU jobs and skills.
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The new ESJS will collect comparative information from EU Member States on the impact of technological change and digitalisation on workers’ job tasks and skill mismatch, and their readiness to adapt by investing in online learning.
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Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19It is a survey on approximately 1,500 UK respondents in Prolific, an online platform that connects researchers with participants, who get paid cash for taking part in research. Conditional on participating in the survey, the sample is representative of the UK population with regards age, sex and ethnicity. The survey was launched on 19 June 2020, three months after the beginning of the lockdown on the 23 March 2020, and the focus is on well-being, perceptions and behaviors in COVID-19 times.
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German Job Search Panel
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The German Job Search Panel is a longitudinal survey that follows people who register as job seeking over the course of up to two years. The focus of the survey is on job seekers’ well-being and health. An innovative survey app is used to allow for frequent measurement every month and for conducting the experience sampling method. The collected data may be linked to administrative records of the Federal Employment Agency, provided that people give their consent. A subsample of surveyed job seekers took part in hair sampling to measure their cortisol levels. In this report, we describe the sampling procedure, adjustments over the recruitment period and the collected data. We moreover examine selective participation in the panel. It turns out that high-skilled workers, young individuals and women were more likely to sign up. Age increases the probability to take part in the hair sampling. People working in East Germany were more likely to consent to the linkage of survey data and administrative records.
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Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey – COVID Survey (GSPS COVID)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The GSPS-COVID survey asked multiple questions about the respondents’ perception of and compliance with the pandemic response measures implemented by the national government, and the economic and labour market impact that they had experienced (see Schotte et al., 2021 for a comprehensive overview). Concerning the latter, respondents were asked retrospectively about their household’s economic wellbeing and their own employment situation in February, April, and the seven days prior to the interview, which took place between 19 August and 17 September 2020.
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High Frequency Mobile Phone Surveys of Households to Assess the Impacts of COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The World Bank and partners are monitoring the crisis and the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 through a series of high-frequency phone surveys, as countries move through the pandemic and into economic recovery.
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The surveys cover important topics including knowledge and concerns about the pandemic, access to food and other basic needs, employment and income loss, and safety nets and coping strategies.
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IAB-BAMF-SOEP COVID-19 Survey of Refugees (CSR)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The CSR is being developed as a telephone survey intended to capture the effects of the Corona-Crisis on refugees living in Germany. The survey will be administered to participants of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP COVID-19 Survey of Refugees, a longitudinal household survey of refugees who arrived in Germany between 2013 and 2016. The main survey will be fielded in August 2020 pending unforeseen delays. However, given the high demand for timely data on this vulnerable population, the cooperating institutions decided to carry out the CSR before the main survey. In addition to items about the physical and mental health of the respondent and household members, the CSR questionnaire includes items concerning changes to labor market participation and earnings, childcare, time use, social life, and wellbeing due to the lockdown measures. Respondents also receive questions related to changes in language course participation and participation in further educational activities.
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Mannheim Corona Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Mannheim Corona Study is based on the methodology and infrastructure of the German Internet Panel (GIP). The interviewed panel members have regularly participated in the study for at least 18 months; some participants have been part of the GIP for 8 years already. This allows the Mannheim Corona Study to compare life in Germany before and since the outbreak. Daily reports starting end of March 2020. GIP data are available for scientific use.
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Mercer Global COVID-19 Surveys
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Mercer, an US human resources consulting firm, is conducting a global spot survey to capture and share business responses from companies around the world taken as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Data are collected and updated with new questions on a monthly basis.
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Report sections include the status of COVID-19 planning, impact on business performance, adaption to the COVID-19 business environment, upcoming salary reviews and workforce adjustments, expatriate-specific and business-traveler concerns and issues, details on post-travel quarantine or self-imposed isolation procedures, flexible working strategy, programs and policies, work organization, and employee engagement, guidance and support provided to employees, return to the workplace and flexing for the future.
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Roper Center: Supporting Public Opinion Data Related to COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, located at Cornell University, is the world’s leading archive of public opinion survey data. Among others, the Center’s mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data on COVID-19 for the research community and the interested public.
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Social Impact of COVID-19 Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Social Impact of COVID-19 survey from the Central Statistics Office, Ireland was undertaken to measure the impact COVID-19 has had on Irish society in April 2020. This survey includes such topics as personal well-being, personal concerns related to COVID-19, changes in consumption behaviour and working life since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis.
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WageIndicator Survey of Living and Working in Coronavirus Times
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The WageIndicator Foundation has launched a continuous global online survey ‘Living and Working in Corona Times’. The purpose of the survey is to discover what makes the Coronavirus lockdown easier (or tougher) for citizens across 110 countries, and to gauge the effect of COVID-19 on jobs, lives and states of mind.
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Why is this resource interesting?WageIndicator shows coronavirus-induced changes in living and working conditions in 110 countries. The survey reveals, from day to day, the consequences the large majority of the working population of the world experiences on the basis of answers on the following questions in the Corona survey:
- Is your work affected by the corona crisis?
- Are precautionary measures taken at the workplace?
- Do you have to work from home?
- Has your workload increased/decreased?
- Have you lost your job/work/assignments?