AID:A Corona Add-on

For AID:A Growing up in Germany: Corona Add-on Everyday Worlds are available as a basis for the empirical analyzes with data on current living conditions, as well as their circumstances during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
As part of the study, from August to November 2020, a total of 867 people between the ages of 12 and 32 who had already participated in the main survey in 2019 were surveyed using a short interim survey in the form of an add-on on the corona pandemic and its consequences. The content of the short questionnaire was the life situation during the corona pandemic. With the two surveys in 2019 and 2020, the survey offers the opportunity to analyze changes in living situation for at least some young people before and during the corona pandemic.

BRAC Rapid Perception Survey on COVID-19 Awareness and Economic Impact

BRAC staff collected data from 2,317 households of different socioeconomic backgrounds through both phone interviews (79%) and face to face (21%) interviews using a structured questionnaire. Given the lockdown situation, the survey could not strictly maintain a representative sampling procedure. However, the findings do reflect a country-wide general picture of the people’s awareness of COVID-19 and the economic hardship induced by the lockdown declared to minimise the health risk of the Pandemic.

Citizens’ Attitudes Under the COVID-19 Pandemic Project

The survey measures ordinary people’s perceptions of and behavioral reactions to the disease caused by COVID-19. It investigates and documents attitudes towards policies on a number of issues – health, the economy, civil liberties – and towards governments and institutions. The project measures representations, attitudes and reactions among the general public in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in a number of countries exposed to the coronavirus. Among others it examines also how people respond to the crisis in terms of economic well-being, tax implications, preferences on the role of the state, economic choices related to the national context and supranational environment (cooperation vs. self-interest).
The methodological design consisted of a broad series of online public opinion surveys in 18 countries in March and April 2020. The survey was repeated at least 4 times in every country (8 waves in France). All surveys run through CAWI (Computer-assisted web interviewing) on samples going from 2,000 respondents to 1,000 respondents.

CLEAR Project Survey

In order to analyze the impact of COVID-19 measures on households and women in Italy, the researchers used a representative sample of 800 Italian women interviewed in April and July 2019 with the purpose of understanding inequalities in women’s work, savings and pensions. In April 2020, the project repeated the interviews, adding specific questions related to the the COVID-19 crisis.
The survey was designed to gather data on four main areas that may have been affected by the health emergency: work, housework, childcare and home schooling. The questions asked, show whether the women and their partners were allowed to continue working at their jobs after the lockdown and its effects during the first phase of the emergency.

Consumer Pyramids Household Survey

The Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS), produced by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), is the world's largest household panel survey, a continuous survey of more than 174,000 households in India. CPHS revisits its entire sample in three four-month waves each year, permitting longitudinal analysis starting in January 2014. Overall, CPHS aims to get a sense of the economic well-being of households in India and changes in their well-being over time. Since each household is surveyed three times per year, the survey allows up to five observations per person, subject to attrition, and provide us with a pre- and post-pandemic panel of individuals.

Corona Compass

The Corona Compass study, conducted by infratest dimap, is based on a representative sample of the German population eligible to vote in Germany and with an online access. A standard set of questions includes, among other things, the extent to which corona infections are affected in the personal environment, the evaluation of government measures as a whole, the assessment of various individual measures by the state and of companies, the subjective risk assessment of infection, basic attitudes towards economic and political situation and other key indicators. The standard set has been expanded and modified several times recording the acceptance of new measures that are becoming increasingly important in the public discussion. In addition, the Corona Compass collects various questions from basic behavioral and social science research.
As such, it is one of the few representative surveys of (family) well-being that exists for Germany. The COMPASS study has more observations and more information on families than other special well-being surveys taken during the COVID-19 crisis.
The data includes satisfaction in three areas that are important for the well-being of families, namely general life satisfaction, satisfaction with family life, and satisfaction with childcare. The data also includes detailed questions on whether individuals with dependent children in the household are affected by school and day care center closures, on the degree to which they feel restricted by public measures taken to contain COVID-19, and on the extent to which they work from home (in German).

Corona Virus Counter Measures

This web app tracks global policies against the coronavirus. It covers the period from 23 January 2020, when China announced the first lockdown measures in Wuhan, to now.

COVID-19 is Rapidly Changing: Examining Public Perceptions and Behaviors in Response to this Evolving Pandemic.

The 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.
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.

COVID-19 US State Policy Database (CUSP)

The COVID-19 US State Policy Database tracks the dates when each US state implemented new social safety net, economic, and physical distancing policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with data on existing health and social policies and information on state characteristics. This database is developed and maintained by researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health, and is updated at least biweekly.
The database has information on unemployment program, healthcare delivery, racial disparities, incarcerated individuals, vote by mail, physical distance closures, exact date of the declaration of the state of emergency, school and non-essential business closures, shelter-in-place orders, housing protections, masks wearing mandates, changes to Medicaid and SNAP, reopening, quarantines for out of state visitors, alcohol and firearms, substance use disorder policies, food security, and more.
Policies included are state-wide directives or mandates, not guidance or recommendations. In order for a policy to be included, it must apply to the entire state.

ESPACOV - Estudio Social sobre la Pandemia de COVID-19

ESPACOV 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.

Family Life in Lockdown

The project studies the personal and family consequences of mass-scale social isolation on individuals’ mental health and well-being caused by COVID-19.
Through the lens of household and gender economic models, as well as language and discourse analysis, the project describes the alterations in the daily life of Italian and British citizens.
An online survey instrument was designed for adults and one for children that focus on understanding how the daily routine has been modified; what process has lead to the current division of labor within the household; the repercussions on personal well-being, family tension, beliefs and aspirations, risk attitudes, trust and cooperation within and outside of the household.

Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times

It 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.

Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey – COVID Survey (GSPS COVID)

The 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.

IAB-BAMF-SOEP COVID-19 Survey of Refugees (CSR)

The 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.

IAB/ZEW Start-Up-Panel Special Surveys

As part of the annual IAB/ZEW start-up panel - by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB, Nuremberg) and the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, a special survey will be held this year on the effects of the corona pandemic. Crisis management is being analyzed for young companies to better understand the labor market effects of young companies and their possible problems on the labor market. The focus will deal with liquidity problems and consequences of statutory shutdowns. Important issues include not only the extent to which young companies take personnel measures, such as applying for short-time work benefits, reducing working hours, arranging home offices, etc. But also to what extent young companies were able to conquer market niches due to the corona pandemic. It is planned to repeat this survey in autumn 2020 to find out how the companies will develop.

ifo Education Survey 2020

The ifo Education Survey (e.g. ifo Education Barometer) is based on an annual public opinion survey. In 2020, over 10,000 individuals were interviewed, who constitute a representative sample of Germany’s adult population between 18 and 69 years. Also, 1,000 parents of schoolchildren on coronavirus-related school closures were part of the survey. The survey focused on education in the Coronavirus crisis: The time schoolchildren spend on school activities, educational measures Germans advocate, like compulsory online instruction, effects of school closures on digitization in education

ifo Education Survey 2020 – Parent Survey

The sample of parents: From the total sample of the ifo Education Survey, which includes a representative sample of the adult population in Germany all parents of school children have been asked to answer questions for their youngest school child about activities during the time of the Corona related school closures.
In this respect, this subsample is a "convenience sample" of parents of pupils at all general schools - elementary schools, secondary schools, junior high schools and comprehensive schools, grammar schools and other types of secondary schools -,due to the representativeness of the overall sample, and a good representation of the students at general education schools.
The parent survey includes a question about children's activities in the period before the school closures. The parent sample includes 1,099 parents of school children.
The first wave of the survey was conducted as part of a large education survey from 3 June to 1 July 2020. The second wave of the survey was in the field from 17 February to 10 March 2021.
Overall, 2,045 parents of children in schools were surveyed. In contrast to the first survey, the sample in the second survey was immediately restricted to parents, and quotas were again used to ensure representativeness along several dimensions including age, gender, state of residence, and education degree. A total of 513 respondents, equivalent to 47 percent of the original parent sample, were successfully recruited to participate again in the second wave. The sample allows to compare respondents’ answers in the first period of school closures and nearly one year later, and hence gain novel insights how individual families and schools adapted to the new realities brought on by the pandemic.

IMF Policy Tracker

The policy tracker summarizes the key economic responses governments are taking to limit the human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tracker includes 197 economies and focuses on discretionary actions and might not fully reflect the policies taken by countries in response to COVID-19, such as automatic insurance mechanisms and existing social safety nets which differ across countries in their breadth and scope.

Impacts of social and economic factors on the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

This study models local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January and February, 2020. The role of various socioeconomic mediating factors was examined, including public health measures that encourage social distancing in local communities. Weather characteristics are used as instrumental variables for causal inference.

KOF Stringency Indices

The KOF Stringency Index and KOF Stringency-Plus Index document the severity of the Covid-19 measures in Switzerland. The indices show the development of the lockdown rules over time and in comparison between the cantons. The values range from 0 (= no measures) to 100 (= complete lockdown).
The data has been available at national level and individually for all 26 cantons in Switzerland since January 2020 and are updated daily.
The KOF Stringency Index consists of the following nine sub-indices: school closings; company closures; cancellation of public events; convention restrictions; reduced use of public transport; rules to stay at home; nationwide exit restrictions; international travel restrictions and information campaigns for the population.
For the KOF StringencyPlus Index is adapting the original KOF Stringency Index in two dimensions: on the one hand, face coverings as an additional indicator are considered, and on the other, a further category to the sub-indicator “business closure” is added.

Lockdown Accounting and Working from Home Simulator

The website presents measures of country-level working from home ability by detailed employment and income subgroups. It also contains a “lockdown simulator” that illustrates the effects of arbitrary sectoral lockdown policies (set by the user) by country.

Mercer Global COVID-19 Surveys

Mercer, 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.
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.

ONE Africa COVID-19 Tracker

The ONE Africa COVID-19 Tracker has information on the health, economic, and social impacts of the virus on African countries. The Tracker includes a wide range of data to understand where resource gaps exist, how the economies of African countries are being impacted, and how societies and the individuals living within them are affected. The tracker provides insights into questions such as: How many hospital beds and intensive care units do countries currently have? What social protection measures have governments taken to minimize the virus’s impact or limit civil liberties? How has the crisis and resulting economic shutdowns impacted food intake or remittances from relatives living abroad?

OpenABM-COVID-19 Project

OpenABM-Covid19 is an agent-based model (ABM) developed to simulate the spread of Covid-19 in a city and to analyse the effect of both passive and active intervention strategies. Interactions between individuals are modelled on networks representing households, work-places and random contacts. The infection is transmitted between these contacts and the progression of the disease in individuals is modelled. Instantaneous contract-tracing and quarantining of contacts is modelled allowing the evaluation of the design and configuration of digital contract-tracing mobile phone apps.

Parents During the Corona Crisis

A comprehensive overview on the combined effects of the corona crisis on parents, childcare, the labor market and the perspective of partners, has so far been lacking. The study ties in here and examines the effects of the Corona crisis on parents, taking into account both the family and the world of work. It closes a gap in current research on the Corona crisis.
The study gives an overview of the magnitudes of parent groups affected by the closure of day-nurseries and schools and the changes in the labor market in the months of the lockdown. Four topics that achieved relevance during the crisis are also examined in more detail: parents in systemically relevant professions, working from home as a solution, division of labor between women and men, psychological consequences of the crisis for parents.
The study is based on special evaluations of the latest Microcensus from the German Federal Statistical Office (2018) and on a few special questions injected in German Internet Panel for the Mannheim Corona Study (in German).

Safegraph Places Weekly Patterns

Base information such as location name, address, category, and brand association for points of interest (POIs) where people spend time or money. Place traffic and demographic aggregations that answer: how often people visit, how long they stay, where they came from, where else they go, and more. Available for ~4.4MM POI. Safegraph updates the Places dataset usually every month with the past month's openings and closings and maintains a persistent key across releases. Safegraph is only temporarily offering the Weekly Patterns dataset which is updated on a weekly basis.
Weekly Patterns is very similar to Safegraph's normal Patterns product with some differences:

1) Each delivery of Weekly Patterns covers one week starting Monday and ending end of day on Sunday. The data will be available three days later on Wednesday of each week.
2) In Weekly Patterns, Safegraph includes a visits by each hour column to enable to get a more detailed view of the week.

Sport England: Survey Into Adult Physical Activity Attitudes and Behavior

The survey provides a regular picture of physical activity bevahiors and attitudes during the different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey asks the public about the amount and type of activity being undertaken, how activity is changing over time, who people are being active with, and what they are thinking and feeling about being active. It also asks parents how their children have changed their exercise habits since the COVID-19 restrictions.
Over 2.000 English adults (16+ online) are surveyed. Data were weighted to be demographically representative of English adults by gender, age, region, social grade, and the estimated households with children under 16.

State-level Social Distancing Policies in Response to COVID-19 in the US

This is a routinely-maintained data repository for US state-level distancing policies to COVID-19. It was developed and is maintained by researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

• Emergency declarations
• Gathering restrictions and recommendations
• School closures
• Restaurant restrictions
• Bar restrictions
• Business closures (including non-essential business closures)
• Stay-at-home orders and advisories
• Travel restrictions and travel-based quarantine orders
• Case-based isolation orders
• Public mask mandates

Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE)

The 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.

Survey Research Methods During the COVID-19 Crisis

SRM presents a special issue on survey research during the COViD-19. The issue collects four types of papers: (1) Commentaries about ongoing research using surveys, or related methods. (2) Proposals of designs to study Coronavirus-related questions using survey research, (3) New research initiatives related to the pandemic that already started. (4) Descriptions of the adaptation of ongoing surveys (PSID, Share, Understanding Society, etc.) to the lockdown policies. In order to allow a swift publication of the papers, SRM changed its standard reviewing process and suspended the possibility for a revise and resubmit for papers that could make it into the issue with more rounds of revisions. The papers are considered to be contributions to ongoing debates instead of decisive research papers. Therefore they are published together with commentaries by peers, and sometimes with responses by the authors of the main article.

The Consequences of the Coronavirus Pandemic for Inequality in Israel

The initial population of the longitudinal survey is made of adult Israeli men and women (age 18+), who were employed or self-employed in the first week of March, prior to the lockdown of the economy. The survey is not a probability sample of the population as only those registered with the panel can be sampled, though it is a sample of the panelist, stratified by age, gender, geographical region, and religiosity.
This first wave includes information on employment and job characteristics of Israeli households in the first week of March (before the economic downturn) and in the last week of April (after the economy was shut down, but before it was reopened). In the second wave, the information on employment and job characteristics of the original population was updated to June, and in wave 3 to August. Wave 4 was launched to capture changes in employment (paid and unpaid) patterns due to the second lockdown in Israel, which was started on September 2020.

The COVID-19 School Closure and Math Learning Inequalities in Primary School in the Torino Province (MATGAP)

The aim of the project "The Covid-19 School Closure and Math Learning Inequalities in Primary School in the Torino Province" (MATGAP) is to measure the effect of the Covid-19 school closures on math skills, among primary school children in grade 3, with special attention to children with a disadvantaged background. Being be the first such evaluation done in Italy, the project will allows to identify the children who have been most affected by the school lockdown.

The French SAPRIS Project

The SAPRIS project is a longitudinal general population survey designed to identify the epidemiological and social issues of the coronavirus public health crisis in France. It draws on the national general population cohorts, comprising a total of over 200,000 persons.
Research focuses include the incidence of COVID-19 symptoms and other health problems; whether or not people seek medical care; risk perception; the effects of infection prevention measures on daily life, social relations, and work; and trust in public and scientific recommendations. The impact of lockdown on children will also be studied, in terms of its effects on parent-child relations and leisure activities, particularly screen use; as well as home schooling conditions and children’s overall well-being in a situation of confinement (in French).

The ZPID Lockdown Measures Dataset for Germany

Longitudinal data that represent public health measures can be a fruitful data source. The data set contains data on 14 governmental measures across the 16 German federal states. In comparison to existing datasets, the data set at hand is a fine-grained daily time series tracking the effective calendar date, introduction, extension, or phase-out of each respective measure. Based on self-regulation theory, measures were coded whether they did not restrict, partially restricted or fully restricted the respective behavioral pattern. The time frame comprises March 08, 2020 until May 15, 2020. The project is an open-source, ongoing project with planned continued updates in regular (approximately monthly) intervals.

UK Time-Use Diary Survey: The Click and Drag Diary Instrument (CaDDI)

In 2016 the Centre for Time Use Research has developed a new online Click and Drag Diary Instrument (CaDDI), collecting population-representative (quota sample) from a market research panel across 9 developed countries including the UK and the USA. They have fielded the same instrument with a similar UK sample, in May-June 2020 -at the peak period of lockdown-, providing a real-time comparison with 2016 behavior. Diaries were collected on 2 or 3 days per respondent (including one weekday and one weekend day), yielding approximately 1,000 diaries in each survey. Response quality was comparable to other on-line diaries, with a mean of 17 distinct episodes recorded each day, and with unusually low levels of missing primary activity,location and co-presence data.