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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Constance Homeoffice Study
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The study analyses 699 people who are currently working from home. The surveys were carried out at nine different times during the social and economic restrictions from March to May 2020 including eight subsequent diary studies. In terms of age and gender, the population of the respondents corresponds to the average of the German working population. First results of the survey showed that the perceived productivity and commitment of employees are promoted by working from home and that a large majority would like to continue to work partially on a mobile basis. However, a tendency towards overtime and associated exhaustion is also evident (in German).
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Consumers and COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Ongoing survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland that asks consumers questions related to the recent coronavirus outbreak, including their expectations for how the economy is likely to be affected by the outbreak and how their own behavior has changed in response to it. The survey began in early March, providing a window into how consumers’ responses have evolved in real time since the early days of the acknowledged spread of COVID-19 in the United States. In updating and charting the survey’s findings on the Cleveland Fed’s website going forward, the researchers seek to inform policymakers and researchers about consumers’ beliefs during a time of high uncertainty and unprecedented policy responses.
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The survey is administered on the Qualtrics survey platform, and Qualtrics recruits a nationally representative sample of participants to provide responses. All respondents are required to be US residents, fluent in English, and 18 or older.
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Decision Maker Panel (DMP)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Decision Maker Panel (DMP) is comprised of Financial Officers from small, medium and large UK companies operating in a broad range of industries and is designed to be representative of the population of UK businesses. The motivation behind the (DMP) was to collect more detailed information on business expectations than is currently available from other sources. The results have proven valuable to the Bank of England, both in terms of informing policy decisions and in creating opportunities for high quality research. Improving our understanding of the decisions that companies are likely to make over the coming years will be critical in helping the Monetary Policy Committee to assess the prospects for the UK economy.
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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
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Haushaltskrisenbarometer
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The most comprehensive evaluation of the corona crisis from the perspective of individual households: The Haushaltskrisenbarometer (Household Crisis Barometer) is supported by a cooperation between the Leibniz Institute for Financial Market Research SAFE, Nielsen-Frankfurt and the Chair of Finance and Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.
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The centerpiece is the evaluation of jointly developed questions that are answered every two weeks by the households of the Nielsen Consumer Panel. The high number of households surveyed continuously and the possibility of making the responses representative using statistical methods provide a reliable and timely picture of the economic situation, (consumption) behavior and expectations of the entire population. This is enriched by an insight into the actual purchasing behavior based on the purchases recorded for all households, and further background information.
The Nielsen Consumer Panel consists of around 20.000 households, of which around 16.000 are interviewed. These households have generally been members of the panel for years and submit all of their purchases in the Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) area every week.The inserted questions span a wide spectrum from the current economic situation to fears and expectations for the future (in German).
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ifo Business Surveys
Economic DevelopmentThe IBS is a long-standing monthly panel among a representative sample of German firms across all sectors of the economy, and covers various dimensions of firms’ business activity. The survey is mostly qualitative, including questions about firms’ business situation and expectations, factors related to the supply and demand of goods and services, as well as planned and realized price changes -among a representative sample of German firms. Since March 2020, the survey questionnaire includes supplemental questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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#13253
Firm-level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
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#13457
Sudden Stop: When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of COVID-19?
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#13368
The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19
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ifo Employment Barometer
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The ifo Employment Barometer is based on ca. 9,500 monthly responses from businesses in manufacturing, construction, wholesaling, retailing and the services sector. The companies are asked to report on their employment plans for the coming three months.
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LISS Panel
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19To analyze changes in work arrangements, behaviors, beliefs and expectations dur-ing the COVID-19 crisis economists from the University of Bonn, IZA and the University of Tilburg surveyed around 5,500 individuals in the Netherlands from March 20-31. The researchers compared work arrangements at the onset of the crisis and shortly after social-distancing policies were implemented.
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#14382
Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands
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#14180
Job Search during a Pandemic Recession: Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
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#13623
Labour Supply during Lockdown and a "New Normal": The Case of the Netherlands
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#13158
Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations
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#14266
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Disentangling Crucial Channels
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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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Risk Perception of COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19An international survey to measure risk perception of COVID-19, and the influence of communications on that. The purpose of the study is to use this unique opportunity to assess the risk perception and associated behaviors of people across different countries to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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People were surveyed in 10 different countries around the world (United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea). These countries were chosen for their cultural and geographic diversity and to represent countries at different stages of the pandemic, with different government policies. Data collection took place between mid-March and mid-April 2020. Participants were recruited through several different (online) platforms or agencies with ationally representative quota samples of the US and UK stratified by age, gender, and ethnicity. Also interlocking age and gender quotas were employed in all other countries to ensure broadly representative samples, with a target of 700 participants per country. The survey was conducted in a web browser via Qualtrics and took about 20 minutes to complete. Participants were paid £0.80-£2.05 ($1.00-$2.57), varying between countries. Participants completed the surveys in their native local language. Translators were fluent in both English as well as each local language to help ensure appropriate adaptation of the survey items in each country.
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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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Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has created the Atlanta Fed/Chicago Booth/Stanford Panel Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) to measure the one-year-ahead expectations and uncertainties that firms have about their own employment and sales. The sample covers all regions of the U.S. economy, every industry sector except agriculture and government, and a broad range of firm sizes.
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Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Job Search Supplement to the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been administered annually each October since 2013. The supplement asks a broad range of questions on one’s current employment state, job search activity, employment history, and work preferences (e.g., reservation wage, desired work hours). SCE data are for October of each year, so the 2020 survey elicits responses about six months after the initial spike in Covid cases and lockdown period, while the 2021 survey elicits responses between the major waves of the delta and omicron Covid variants and during a period of relatively strong labor market growth. The 2020 and 2021 SCE Job Search Supplements have additional survey questions that focus on issues specific to the Covid pandemic. These include follow-ups to its questions on reasons for not looking for work and reasons for part-time search that elicit whether the Covid pandemic accounted for these reasons and in what way (e.g., child care issues, fear of contracting the virus, caring for someone who was sick, etc.). The new questions also ask about schooling, online learning, and other aspects of the household that may affect the respondent’s labor supply decision.
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The Global Covid-19 Student Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Global COVID-19 Student Survey aims to provide data on a population that has been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: university students. The survey asks current students: how their educational experiences have been affected in spring 2020, how their housing situation has changed and potentially affected their studies, what their intentions are for study in Fall 2020, how their job market prospects have changed as a result of the pandemic, how their expectations about future job market success and job priorities have changed, what are their perceptions of the pandemic are and their preferences over risk, time, and trust.
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Understanding America Study
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This page provides a summary of information and data from Understanding America Study surveys of attitudes and behaviors around the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Currently two surveys are conducted, the UAS Understanding Coronavirus in America (“Covid”) Survey which includes a national bi-weekly long-form survey and a weekly Los Angeles County short-form survey. Reports, toplines, data, and documentation are provided for the full Wave 1 of the UAS Covid survey. Complete data sets for subsequent waves of the long, bi-weekly (national) and short, weekly (Los Angeles County) tracking surveys are posted here as they are completed.
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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?
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World Bank COVID-19 follow up Enterprise Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The World Bank has also released the Enterprise Survey follow-up survey data which measures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses. These surveys re-interview the respondents of recently completed ES to collect information about closures (temporary or permanent), changes in sales, employment, and finance, along with policy responses, expectations, and other topics.
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