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Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviors, and norms

Year: 2021

Type: preprint

Abstract: Policy and communication responses to COVID-19 can benefit from better understanding of people's baseline and resulting beliefs, behaviors, and norms. From July 2020 to March 2021, we fielded a global survey on these topics in 67 countries yielding over 2.0 million responses. This paper provides an overview of the motivation behind the survey design, details the sampling and weighting designed to make the results representative of populations of interest and presents some insights learned from the survey. Several studies have already used the survey data to analyze risk perception, attitudes towards mask wearing and other preventative behaviors, as well as trust in information sources across communities worldwide. This resource can open new areas of inquiry in public health, communication, and economic policy by leveraging one of the first ever large-scale, rich survey data on beliefs, behaviors, and norms during a global pandemic in new and innovative ways.

DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7r5sj

Authors: Avinash Collis, Kiran Garimella, Alex Moehring, M. Amin Rahimian, Stella Babalola, Nina Gobat, Dominick Shattuck, Jeni Stolow, Dean Eckles, Sinan Aral

Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Texas at Austin, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Temple University, University of Pittsburgh

Language: English

Topic: Communication and COVID-19 Impact

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: World Health Organization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University

OpenAlex ID: W3149192189

Cites: 15

Cited by: 25

Related to: 10