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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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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Canadian Perspective Survey Series
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Canadian Perspectives Survey Series (CPSS) involves people who agree to complete about six very short online surveys over a period of one year (about one every two months) using randomly sample households from the Labor Force Survey (LFS) out-going rotation groups.
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The first survey of the series focused on the impacts of COVID-19. The second survey of the series focused on monitoring the effect of COVID-19. The third survey of the series focuses on the gradual reopening of economic and social activities during COVID-19.
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COCONEL for Coronavirus and Confinement: Longitudinal Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19COCONEL for Coronavirus and Confinement: Longitudinal survey, is an online survey deployed by the IFOP polling institute with a panel of a thousand people representative of the French adult population on various aspects of the COVID-19 crisis. Conducted by a consortium of researchers, the study aims to follow more specifically the psychological, emotional and behavioral response of the French population to the COVID-19 epidemic and to containment.
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The COCONEL survey is carried out online. Once a week, a sample of a thousand people, representative of the French adult population, is interviewed on the following aspects: housing conditions, job, child and educational continuity, neighborhood and feeling of isolation, containment and living conditions, opinions on containment, prognosis for the duration of the epidemic, sleep disturbances, signs of psychological distress, acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine, prognosis for the duration of the epidemic (in French).
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COME-HERE (COVID-19 MEntal HEalth, REsilience and self-regulation)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The COME-HERE (COVID-19 MEntal HEalth, REsilience and self-regulation) dataset is created and administered by the University of Luxembourg and conducted by Qualtrics. So far there are six waves, with wave 1 taking place in April 2020, and over 30,000 person-wave observations. The countries the dataset covers are France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.
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Two surveys conducted with Luxembourg residents in March and June 2021 offer a snapshot of their working and living conditions during the pandemic, in particular their income, compliance with health and confinement guidelines, and pre-and post-pandemic health characteristics.
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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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Coordinating Remote Work During COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19Qualitative research study at the University of Washington to quickly identify, analyze, and share useful processes, actions, and best practices used by organizations to coordinate social distancing via remote collaborative working. Enduring knowledge about coordination in a complex organization during time of crisis.
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COVID-19 and Remote Work
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19To get a real-time sense of how firms and workers are adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic the researchers conducted a nationally-representative sample of the US population using Google Consumer Surveys (GCS) on working practices. The survey was launched on April 1, 2020 and collected responses until April 5, collecting a total of 25.000 responses asking a single question: "Have you started to work from home in the last 4 weeks?"
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COVID-19 Transmission Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The dataset was developed by a survey that took place over the first week of June 2020. Samples of 1,000 adults in the US and UK were obtained from a professional survey company using quota sampling to obtain national samples broadly representative for those of working age with some oversampling to reflect contrasts of interest. All survey recruitment and completion was done by electronic means (so via phones or personal computers but not face-to-face meetings). Towards the end of the sampling period some of the quotas were relaxed. Ex post, a set of weights that can be used to construct nationally representative results. Respondents were paid a small amount for completing the survey which took about 5 minutes on average to complete. It is important to reiterate that survey responses are self reports and that said, overall reported infection rates are comparable to those reported elsewhere for the UK and US bearing in mind the predominance of early transmission experience.
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The dataset contains several variables related to transmission experience while the analysis focuses on the possession of a medical diagnosis or positive test self-reported by the respondent.
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Digitising Europe Pulse - European Resilience in Times of COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The survey was conducted by Kantar who have interviewed 13,000 people from 13 EU member states via an online survey for the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications. The survey is the second edition of the “Digitizing Europe Pulse” series, which the Vodafone Institute is conducting on a quarterly basis. Main topics are: technical equipment and performance meeting the challenges with COVID-19, perceiving and managing measures taken by national governments, access to a digital infrastructure that helps to cope successfully with everyday life, acceptance of corona apps, COVID-19 crisis management of the national governments, inter-European cooperation and cohesion among Europeans, short-time work, quality of life in the long term
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DJI Childcare Study COVID-19 Add-on
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The survey has been supplemented by a short additional module on the effects of the corona virus on the care of children up to primary school age since the beginning of the corona pandemic. Parents already interviewed at this time were also asked about the current changes in the care of their children due to corona as part of a follow-up study. In addition to the deviation from the "usual" care situation, the support received in organising childcare as well as changes in the parents' working behaviour will be surveyed. Over the field period from the end of March to the end of July 2020, the overall course of the collected information can provide information on the extent of the changes over time and the flexibility that families have to provide as well as the stabilisation of the care situation in the following months.
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The DJI Childcare Study (KiBS) is an annual, representative survey of approx. 33,000 parents with children under the age of 12 years. Based on random samples from the residents' registration office, about 2,000 interviews are conducted in each federal state of Germany. The youngest age cohort, children under one year of age, is drawn each year anew, while the older children continue the panel survey. The parent principally caring for the child is interviewed; in more than 90 per cent of the interviews, this is the child's mother. The duration of a telephone interview (CATI) is about 20 minutes per person.
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Employment and Establishment
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is conducting a repeated special online survey on the corona pandemic investigating daily work routine, changes in working life, and existing uncertainties as part of the study “Employment and Establishment” (in German).
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EUROFOUND Living, Working and COVID-19 Data
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19Eurofound's e-survey, Living, working and COVID-19, to captures the most immediate changes during the pandemic and their impact, with the aim of helping to shape the response to this crisis. The survey looks at quality of life and well-being, with questions ranging from life satisfaction, happiness and optimism, to health and levels of trust in institutions. Respondents are also asked about their work situation, their work–life balance and level of teleworking during COVID-19. The survey also assesses the impact of the pandemic on people’s living conditions and financial situation.
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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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Fraunhofer Coronavirus Home Office Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19On April 1, 2020, the Fraunhofer FIT started a home office survey. The aim is to find out how employees experience the situation and analyze where there is room for improvement in the future. Changes in time and learning processes over the duration should also be considered. First results have been published (in German).
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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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GESIS Panel and Initiatives on COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The GESIS Panel offers researchers the opportunity to collect survey data on the current outbreak of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Germany via a fast-track procedure. Also, GESIS Panel special survey on the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany, and the planned GESIS Panel standard/extended version: longitudinal data on the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany.
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Healthcare Workers Survey
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The Healthcare Workers Survey is a data collection tool designed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the well-being and health of healthcare workers. The survey will be conducted in several countries. Participants will be asked to answer a set of questions on demographic, well-being and working patterns. This includes questions that may be sensitive, including but not limited to questions related to COVID-19. The Healthcare Workers Survey is conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge, University of Exeter and University of Glasgow.
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Helsinki Gradutae School of Economics Situation Room
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19The Situation Room consists of leading economists from Helsinki GSE, VATT Institute for Economic Research, as well as members from several public authorities. It utilizes data from relevant public and private sources and produces regular reports for policymakers. The data is collected and organized in close cooperation with Statistics Finland, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, Bank of Finland, Finnish Tax Administration, Kela and other institutions. The situation room cooperates closely with Vesa Vihriälä’s group, which is focused on the longer-term economic implications of the crisis.
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IAB Home Office Information Platform
Open Access Full Texts Related to COVID-19The information platform highlights advantages and disadvantages at employee and company level. The latest publications and further resources are available from the IAB (Institute of Employment Research, in German).
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IAB Linked Personnel Panel (LPP)
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The COVID-19 add-on survey shows how the everyday work of employees in medium-sized and large private-sector companies has changed during the COVID-19 crisis. The survey is particularly about transitions to short-time work, changes in working hours and place of work, communication and the compatibility of work and private life. The survey is trying to address especially the following questions: how short-time work is used; how short-time work has changed; how many are currently working from home and to what extent; how do employees communicate with each other; how do work, family and childcare evolve?
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The basis of the current online survey is the IAB Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which consists of a longitudinal survey of German private-sector companies with at least 50 employees subject to social security contributions and randomly selected employees in these companies. From early April to end of May 2020 IAB surveyed around 1,200 employees online about their daily work during the Corona crisis. A second wave started in early June 2020.
The information is representative of people who work in private companies with at least 50 employees and who use digital information and communication technologies for work. This applies to around 40 percent of employees subject to social security contributions in Germany.
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IAB/ZEW Start-Up-Panel Special Surveys
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19As 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.
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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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Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands
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Job Search during a Pandemic Recession: Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
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Labour Supply during Lockdown and a "New Normal": The Case of the Netherlands
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Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Disentangling Crucial Channels
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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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National Household Sample Survey - PNAD COVID-19
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19This nationally-representative survey of Brazilian households aims at estimating the number of persons with symptoms associated with the flu syndrome and at following up the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brazilian labor market. The sample is longitudinal, i.e., the households interviewed in the first month of data collection will remain in the sample along the next months, up to the end of the survey.
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The questionnaire is divided into two parts, one directed to health issues, specifically on symptoms associated with the flu syndrome, and the other, to labor issues. The labor issues aim at ranking the population at working age in the following categories: employed, unemployed and persons out of the workforce. The following aspects are also investigated: employment and activity; work leave and reason for leaving; home office; search for work; reason for not searching for work; weekly hours effectively and usually worked; employment status and one-digit occupations, as well as the effective and usual earnings from labor.
The questionnaire is subject to changes along the application period. The survey releases some indicators on a weekly basis, at Brazil level, and a wider set of indicators on a monthly basis, for Federation Units.
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NEPS Research on COVID-19 and Education
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19As part of the NEPS (National Educational Panel Study), the largest long-term education study in Germany, all participants are being interviewed on the occasion of the corona pandemic. In the current as well as all future surveys the researchers want to determine the current experiences and impressions of the NEPS participants in times of the corona crisis and thus make them useful for educational research.
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The focus is on questions about people's everyday lives in school, work and family: How have you been doing since the outbreak of the corona pandemic? How has your everyday life changed? What are you worried about? What has perhaps also developed positively?
All data collected in this way can be used to obtain a differentiated picture of the corona effects on the educational biographies of the respondents (in German).
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OpenABM-COVID-19 Project
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19OpenABM-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.
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Parents During the Corona Crisis
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19A 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.
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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).
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The Consequences of the Coronavirus Pandemic for Inequality in Israel
Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19The 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.
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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.
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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?