Overview

The Associated Press is sharing data from the COVID Impact Survey, which provides statistics about physical health, mental health, economic security and social dynamics related to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

Conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Data Foundation, the probability-based survey provides estimates for the United States as a whole, as well as in 10 states (California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, Oregon and Texas) and eight metropolitan areas (Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Phoenix and Pittsburgh).

The survey is designed to allow for an ongoing gauge of public perception, health and economic status to see what is shifting during the pandemic. When multiple sets of data are available, it will allow for the tracking of how issues ranging from COVID-19 symptoms to economic status change over time.

The survey is focused on three core areas of research:

• Physical Health: Symptoms related to COVID-19, relevant existing conditions and health insurance coverage.
• Economic and Financial Health: Employment, food security, and government cash assistance.
• Social and Mental Health: Communication with friends and family, anxiety and volunteerism. (Questions based on those used on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.) ## Using this Data - IMPORTANT This is survey data and must be properly weighted during analysis: DO NOT REPORT THIS DATA AS RAW OR AGGREGATE NUMBERS!!

Instead, use our queries linked below or statistical software such as R or SPSS to weight the data.

Queries

If you'd like to create a table to see how people nationally or in your state or city feel about a topic in the survey, use the survey questionnaire and codebook to match a question (the variable label) to a variable name. For instance, "How often have you felt lonely in the past 7 days?" is variable "soc5c".

Nationally: Go to this query and enter soc5c as the variable. Hit the blue Run Query button in the upper right hand corner.

Local or State: To find figures for that response in a specific state, go to this query and type in a state name and soc5c as the variable, and then hit the blue Run Query button in the upper right hand corner.

The resulting sentence you could write out of these queries is: "People in some states are less likely to report loneliness than others. For example, 66% of Louisianans report feeling lonely on none of the last seven days, compared with 52% of Californians. Nationally, 60% of people said they hadn't felt lonely."

Margin of Error

The margin of error for the national and regional surveys is found in the attached methods statement. You will need the margin of error to determine if the comparisons are statistically significant. If the difference is:

• At least twice the margin of error, you can report there is a clear difference.
• At least as large as the margin of error, you can report there is a slight or apparent difference.
• Less than or equal to the margin of error, you can report that the respondents are divided or there is no difference. ## A Note on Timing Survey results will generally be posted under embargo on Tuesday evenings. The data is available for release at 1 p.m. ET Thursdays.

About the Data

The survey data will be provided under embargo in both comma-delimited and statistical formats.

Each set of survey data will be numbered and have the date the embargo lifts in front of it in the format of: 01_April_30_covid_impact_survey. The survey has been organized by the Data Foundation, a non-profit non-partisan think tank, and is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Packard Foundation. It is conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, a non-partisan research organization. (NORC is not an abbreviation, it part of the organization's formal name.)

Data for the national estimates are collected using the AmeriSpeak Panel, NORC’s probability-based panel designed to be representative of the U.S. household population. Interviews are conducted with adults age 18 and over representing the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Panel members are randomly drawn from AmeriSpeak with a target of achieving 2,000 interviews in each survey. Invited panel members may complete the survey online or by telephone with an NORC telephone interviewer.

Once all the study data have been made final, an iterative raking process is used to adjust for any survey nonresponse as well as any noncoverage or under and oversampling resulting from the study specific sample design. Raking variables include age, gender, census division, race/ethnicity, education, and county groupings based on county level counts of the number of COVID-19 deaths. Demographic weighting variables were obtained from the 2020 Current Population Survey. The count of COVID-19 deaths by county was obtained from USA Facts. The weighted data reflect the U.S. population of adults age 18 and over.

Data for the regional estimates are collected using a multi-mode address-based (ABS) approach that allows residents of each area to complete the interview via web or with an NORC telephone interviewer. All sampled households are mailed a postcard inviting them to complete the survey either online using a unique PIN or via telephone by calling a toll-free number. Interviews are conducted with adults age 18 and over with a target of achieving 400 interviews in each region in each survey.Additional details on the survey methodology and the survey questionnaire are attached below or can be found at https://www.covid-impact.org.

Attribution

Results should be credited to the COVID Impact Survey, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Data Foundation.

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The COVID-19 Student Survey (CSS) was a multi-agency collaboration designed to examine student needs and health risk behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was intended to be administered online during school hours to students in grades 6 to 12 at all participating schools. Recruitment for the survey was initiated on February 18, 2021 and the survey was administered between March 8-26, 2021. The CSS was funded by the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA), implemented by a team at the University of Washington (UW), with further partnership around content, design, and dissemination from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and the Washington State Department of Health (DOH).

The indicators and analysis presented in this bulletin are based on responses from the new voluntary fortnightly business survey, which captures businesses responses on how their turnover, workforce prices, trade and business resilience have been affected in the two week reference period. These data relate to the period 6 April 2020 to 19 April 2020.

The COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey (CTIS) was conducted by the Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the United States (US) and by the University of Maryland (UMD) Social Data Science Center (SoDa) globally, in partnership with Meta. CTIS was a daily repeated cross-sectional survey that ran continuously starting April 6, 2020 in the US and starting April 23, 2020 globally. Both surveys concluded data collection on June 25, 2022. CTIS collected data in 200+ countries and territories, including 114 where Meta provided survey weights. The sampling frame was Facebook users aged 18 years or older who have been active on the platform in the last month. Sampled Facebook users saw the invitation at the top of their Feed, but the surveys were collected by the universities using Qualtrics. Meta neither collected nor received survey responses. The sample was stratified by subnational regions. Respondents were sampled as frequently as every month and as infrequently as every six months, depending on the population density of the subnational region in which they lived. Due to the minimum sampling frequency, pooled analyses should not combine more than a month of data. There were 12 versions of the survey questionnaires. The Delphi US CTIS was translated into 8 languages. The UMD Global CTIS was translated into 66 languages. This collection is comprised of three categories of data: a. Individual-level microdata files, which will be available to eligible academic and nonprofit researchers with fully executed Data Use Agreements (DUAs). b. Daily aggregate estimates at the country and subnational region levels disseminated via public APIs at CMU and UMD. c. Weekly and monthly aggregate estimates broken out by respondent characteristics (e.g., age, gender, vaccination status) at the country and subnational administrative level-1 region-level disseminated via publicly available CSV-formatted contingency tables. This collection currently only contains the aggregate data, contingency tables and associated documentation. The microdata are forthcoming.

The Monthly Outcome Survey (MOS) was designed to assess COVID-19 vaccine uptake as well as beliefs, intentions, and behaviors relevant to COVID-19 vaccination at a point in time. The survey fielded on a monthly basis from January 2021 to April 2023. When the MOS first launched, it focused on the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines; in later waves, it was expanded to assess parents’ intentions to get their children vaccinated or boosted and to track booster and updated vaccine uptake and readiness. The MOS fielded as part of an online omnibus survey, conducted with a cross-sectional sample of approximately 5,000 U.S. adults each month.

Abstract

Having reliable, timely data on poverty and inequality is critical to assess the distributional impact of and recovery from COVID-19 and high inflation on households and to make near-real time evidence-based strategic decisions. Partnering with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the South Caucasus team in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank conducted a series of Georgia High Frequency Survey to monitor the impact of these events on households in Georgia. This eighth round of the survey is augmented by including questions on the impact of high inflation, disruption in employment and schooling, concerns over environmental risks, and access to health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Geographic coverage

National coverage, representative at the national, rural/urban/Tbilisi-levels.

Analysis unit

Household, Individual (adult over age 18)

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The survey is based on phone-interviews with application of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and random digit dialing (RDD). The sampling frame is representative of the national and rural/urban/Tbilisi population. Around 2000 valid interviews were concluded in each round with response rates around 40%.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]

Research instrument

The COVID-19 Georgia High Frequency Survey (GHFS) 2020-22 Wave 1 comprises following modules: 1- Household Identification, 2- Household Demographics, 3- Assets and Access to Internet, 4- Prevalence ofCOVID-19, 5- Distance Learning, 6- Employment Dynamics, 7- Income, 8- Food Security, 9- Shocks and Coping Strategies, 10- Vaccine, 11- Perception.

In waves 2, 3, and 4, module on remittances was added. In wave 4, module on shocks and coping strategies was dropped, but question on job disruption was added. In waves 5 and 6, modules on inflation impact and time use were added. Questions on income and remittances were dropped. In wave 7, questions on income and remittances were brought back. In wave 8, questions on the perception of environmental risks, perception of the country's development, and health services accessibility during the COVID-19 pandemic were added.

Cleaning operations

Data cleaning was carried out to identify and, where possible, correct inconsistencies. In addition, open-ended questions with textual responses were recoded so that these answers matched numeric codes. With CATI, the cleaning process was straightforward: pre-programmed questionnaire forms helped to eliminate ambiguous codes from being entered in the dataset. Also, the form did not accept errors related to selecting more values than permitted in the questionnaire. Additional protocols for data cleaning are summarized in the CRRC Fieldwork Report.

Response rate

Response rates were around 40%.

Geographic coverage

National, regional

Analysis unit

households

Sampling procedure

The 2021 Vietnam COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey of Households (VHFPS) uses a nationally representative household survey from 2018 as the sampling frame. The 2018 baseline survey includes 46,980 households from 3132 communes (about 25% of total communes in Vietnam). In each commune, one EA is randomly selected and then 15 households are randomly selected in each EA for interview. We use the large module of to select the households for official interview of the VHFPS survey and the small module households as reserve for replacement.

After data processing, the final sample size for Round 6 is 3,938 households.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]

Research instrument

The questionnaire for this round consisted of the following sections

Section 2. Behavior Section 3. Health Section 4. Education Section 5. Employment (main respondent) Section 6. Coping Section 8. FIES Section 10. Opinion

Note: Some categorical responses have been merged in the anonymized data set for confidentiality.

From April 2020 participants from our main Understanding Society sample have been asked to complete a short web-survey. This survey covers the changing impact of the pandemic on the welfare of UK individuals, families and wider communities. Participants complete a regular survey, which includes core content designed to track changes, alongside variable content adapted as the coronavirus situation develops. Researchers will be able to link the data from this web survey to answers respondents have given in previous (and future) waves of the annual Understanding Society survey.

Household Pulse Survey (HPS): HPS is a rapid-response survey of adults ages ≥18 years led by the U.S. Census Bureau, in partnership with seven other federal statistical agencies, to measure household experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Detailed information on probability sampling using the U.S. Census Bureau’s Master Address File, questionnaires, response rates, and bias assessment is available on the Census Bureau website (https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products/household-pulse-survey.html). Data from adults ages ≥18 years and older are collected by a 20-minute online survey from randomly sampled households stratified by state and the top 15 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). Data are weighted to represent total persons ages 18 and older living within households and to mitigate possible bias that can result from non-responses and incomplete survey frame. Data from adults ages ≥18 years and older are collected by 20-minute online survey from randomly sampled households stratified by state and the top 15 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). For more information on this survey, see https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey.html. Data are weighted to represent total persons ages 18 and older living within households and to mitigate possible bias that can result from non-responses and incomplete survey frame. Responses in the Household Pulse Survey (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey.html) are self-reported. Estimates of vaccination coverage may differ from vaccine administration data reported at COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations).

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (LHA) have carried out two online surveys of the participants of five national longitudinal cohort studies which have collected insights into the lives of study participants including their physical and mental health and wellbeing, family and relationships, education, work, and finances during the coronavirus pandemic. The Wave 1 Survey was carried out at the height of lockdown restrictions in May 2020 and focussed mainly on how participants’ lives had changed from just before the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 until then. The Wave 2 survey was conducted in September/October 2020 and focussed on the period between the easing of restrictions in June through the summer into the autumn. A third wave of the survey was conducted in early 2021.

In addition, CLS study members who had participated in any of the three COVID-19 Surveys were invited to provide a finger-prick blood sample to be analysed for COVID-19 antibodies. Those who agreed were sent a blood sample collection kit and were asked to post back the sample to a laboratory for analysis. The antibody test results and initial short survey responses are included in a single dataset, the COVID-19 Antibody Testing in the National Child Development Study, 1970 British Cohort Study, Next Steps and Millennium Cohort Study, 2021 (SN 8823).

The CLS studies are:

• Millennium Cohort Study (born 2000-02) both cohort members and parents (MCS)
• Next Steps (born 1989-90) (NS)
• 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
• 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS).

The LHA study is:

• MRC National Survey of Health and Development, 1946 British birth cohort (NSHD)

The content of the MCS, NS, BCS70 and NCDS COVID-19 studies, including questions, topics and variables can be explored via the CLOSER Discovery website.

The COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, 1970 British Cohort Study and 1958 National Child Development Study, 2020-2021 contains the data from waves 1, 2 and 3 for the 4 cohort studies. The data from all four CLS cohorts are included in the same dataset, one for each wave.

The COVID-19 Survey data for the 1946 birth cohort study (NSHD) run by the LHA is held under "https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8732" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SN 8732 and available under Special Licence access conditions.

Latest edition information
For the fourth edition (June 2022), the following minor corrections have been made to the wave 3 data:

• corrections to a small number of cases where CW3_GROW and CW3_GROWB were incorrectly calculated
• recoded values and reformatted the code list for CW3_COVIDVAC as the original value of 3 was removed from the final version of the survey
  

WageIndicator is interviewing people around the world to discover what makes the Coronavirus lockdown easier (or tougher), and what is the COVID-19 effect on our jobs, lives and mood. WageIndicator shows coronavirus-induced changes in living and working conditions in over 110 countries on the basis of answers on the following questions among others 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? The survey contains questions about the home situation of respondents as well as about the possible manifestation of the corona disease in members of the household. Also the effect of having a pet in the house in corona-crisis times is included.

• National Immunization Survey Adult COVID Module (NIS-ACM): CDC is providing information on the updated 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine, the 2024-25 seasonal flu vaccine, and the RSV vaccine uptake and confidence. These data represent trends in vaccination status and intent, and other behavioral indicators, by demographics and other characteristics.

• The data start in September 2024.

• The archived data can be found here: - 2023-24 season: https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/National-Immunization-Survey-Adult-COVID-Module-NI/uc4z-hbsd/about_data - Before October 2023:
https://data.cdc.gov/Vaccinations/National-Immunization-Survey-Adult-COVID-Module-NI/udsf-9v7b/about_data

The attached .csv file contains data obtained from an online survey available between to participants between November 2020 and January 2021. The principle outcome variable is loneliness and the principle exposure is chronotype.For more information please contact ray.norbury@brunel.ac.uk

Abstract

As part of the efforts of the World Bank Group to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the private sector, the Enterprise Analysis unit is conducting follow-up surveys on recently completed Enterprise Surveys (ES) in several countries. These short surveys follow the baseline ES and are designed to provide quick information on the impact and adjustments that COVID-19 has brought about in the private sector.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Enterprise

Universe

The universe of inference is all registered establishments with five or more employees that are engaged in one of the following activities defined using ISIC Rev. 3.1: manufacturing (groupd D), construction (group F), services sector (groups G and H), transport, storage, and communcations sector (group I) and information technology (division 72 of group K)

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The follow-up surveys re-contact all establishments sampled in the standard ES using stratified random sampling (https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/content/dam/enterprisesurveys/documents/methodology/Sampling_Note.pdf). Total sample target: 1446

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]

Research instrument

The questionnaires contain the following modules: - Control information and introduction - General information - Sales - Production - Labor - Finance - Policies - Expectations - Information on permanently closed establishments - Interview protocol

Response rate

Response rate is 83.8%.

Abstract

The COVID-19 web survey has been utilized to track American attitudes on topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including well-being. The survey began fielding on March 13, 2020, with daily random samples of U.S. adults, aged 18 and older, who are members of the Gallup Panel. Approximately 1,200 daily completes were collected from March 13 through April 26, 2020. From April 27 to August 16, 2020, approximately 500 daily completes were collected. Starting August 17, 2020, the survey moved from daily surveying to a survey conducted one time per month over a two-week field period (typically the last two weeks of the month). Beginning in 2022, the COVID survey moved to quarterly data collection.

The Gallup Panel COVID-19 Survey table includes survey responses from March 2020 through Q1 2023. Starting in Q2 2023, the original COVID-19 survey was narrowed down to serve as a wellbeing-focused survey (see Gallup Panel Wellbeing Survey table).

Methodology

Results for this Gallup poll are based on self-administered web surveys conducted with a random sample of U.S. adults aged 18 and older, who are members of the Gallup Panel. The survey was conducted in English. Individuals without Internet access were not covered by this study.

The Gallup Panel is a probability-based, nationally representative panel of U.S. adults. Members are randomly selected using random-digit-dial phone interviews that cover landline and cellphones and address-based sampling methods. The Gallup Panel is not an opt-in panel.

Gallup weights the obtained samples each day to adjust for the probability of select and to correct for nonresponse bias. Nonresponse adjustments are made by adjusting the sample to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education and region. Demographic weighting targets are based on the most recent Current Population Survey figures for the aged-18-and-older U.S. population. Respondents receive a small post-paid incentive of $1 incentive for completing the survey.

Usage

For more information about methodology and included variables, please see Supporting Files.

Bulk Data Access

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Abstract

As part of the efforts of the World Bank Group to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the private sector, the Enterprise Analysis unit is conducting follow-up surveys on recently completed Enterprise Surveys (ES) in several countries. These short surveys follow the baseline ES and are designed to provide quick information on the impact and adjustments that COVID-19 has brought about in the private sector.

Geographic coverage

Czechia

Analysis unit

Firms

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The follow-up surveys re-contact all establishments sampled in the standard ES using stratified random sampling. The total sample target was 502. Sample Frame Source : Completed interviews in the Czech Republic 2019 ES. For more information on sampling methodology, see https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/content/dam/enterprisesurveys/documents/methodology/Sampling_Note.pdf

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI)

Research instrument

The survey was implemented in Czech. The questionnaire is available for download.

Survey in 48 languages collecting global data on the psychological and behavioural impact of the COVID-19/coronavirus crisis. Collaborative open science project. By the COVIDiSTRESS global survey research community.

Open science project aiming at inclusion and collaboration between diverse researchers. Inquiries welcome.

Abstract

To facilitate the use of data collected through the high-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19, the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) team has created the harmonized datafiles using two household surveys: 1) the country’ latest face-to-face survey which has become the sample frame for the phone survey, and 2) the country’s high-frequency phone survey on COVID-19.

The LSMS team has extracted and harmonized variables from these surveys, based on the harmonized definitions and ensuring the same variable names. These variables include demography as well as housing, household consumption expenditure, food security, and agriculture. Inevitably, many of the original variables are collected using questions that are asked differently. The harmonized datafiles include the best available variables with harmonized definitions.

Two harmonized datafiles are prepared for each survey. The two datafiles are: 1. HH: This datafile contains household-level variables. The information include basic household characterizes, housing, water and sanitation, asset ownership, consumption expenditure, consumption quintile, food security, livestock ownership. It also contains information on agricultural activities such as crop cultivation, use of organic and inorganic fertilizer, hired labor, use of tractor and crop sales.
2. IND: This datafile contains individual-level variables. It includes basic characteristics of individuals such as age, sex, marital status, disability status, literacy, education and work.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

• Households
• Individuals

Universe

The survey covered all de jure households excluding prisons, hospitals, military barracks, and school dormitories.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

See “Nigeria - General Household Survey, Panel 2018-2019, Wave 4” and “Nigeria - COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey 2020” available in the Microdata Library for details.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Cleaning operations

Nigeria General Household Survey, Panel (GHS-Panel) 2018-2019 and Nigeria COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey (COVID-19 NLPS) 2020 data were harmonized following the harmonization guidelines (see “Harmonized Datafiles and Variables for High-Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19” for more details).

The high-frequency phone survey on COVID-19 has multiple rounds of data collection. When variables are extracted from multiple rounds of the survey, the originating round of the survey is noted with “_rX” in the variable name, where X represents the number of the round. For example, a variable with “_r3” presents that the variable was extracted from Round 3 of the high-frequency phone survey. Round 0 refers to the country’s latest face-to-face survey which has become the sample frame for the high-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19. When the variables are without “_rX”, they were extracted from Round 0.

Response rate

See “Nigeria - General Household Survey, Panel 2018-2019, Wave 4” and “Nigeria - COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey 2020” available in the Microdata Library for details.

Abstract

The COVID-19 Vaccination Survey in China was conducted in July 2021 to understand refugees' accessibility and willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in China. UNHCR stresses that no one can be left behind in the global effort against COVID-19 and is monitoring the inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers in vaccination plans around the world. At the time, Chinese government policy did not provide free vaccines for foreigners without social security. The survey results however show that this policy was implemented with some flexibility, because among the few that were vaccinated already, more than half received a free COVID-19 vaccine. Some refugees reported difficulties or lack of information about vaccine registration or identity documents to book an appointment. Results further show that even though most are willing to get vaccinated, anti-vaccine sentiments are driven by fear of side effects.

Geographic coverage

The survey covers 24 provinces with most respondents residing in the province of Guangdong.

Analysis unit

Households

Universe

The survey was distributed to all 1017 refugees and asylum seekers.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

No sampling was implmented.

Mode of data collection

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based

Response rate

Out of 1017 distributed surveys, UNHCR received 455 answers (45%). Of those, 30 respondents did not provide consent to participate in the survey.

Decision-makers need clear information about the prevalence of coronavirus as well as its impacts on the American people and our society. The COVID Impact Survey will provide national and regional statistics about physical health, mental health, economic security, and social dynamics in the United States.