Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms

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

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Abstract

Policy and communication responses to COVID-19 can benefit from better understanding of people’s baseline and resulting beliefs, behaviours and norms. From July 2020 to March 2021, we fielded a global survey on these topics in 67 countries yielding over 2 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 analyse risk perception, attitudes towards mask wearing and other preventive behaviours, as well as trust in information sources across communities worldwide. This resource can open new areas of enquiry in public health, communication and economic policy by leveraging large-scale, rich survey datasets on beliefs, behaviours and norms during a global pandemic.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalNature Human Behaviour
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

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