TY - JOUR
T1 - Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms
AU - Collis, Avinash
AU - Garimella, Kiran
AU - Moehring, Alex
AU - Rahimian, M. Amin
AU - Babalola, Stella
AU - Gobat, Nina H.
AU - Shattuck, Dominick
AU - Stolow, Jeni
AU - Aral, Sinan
AU - Eckles, Dean
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded in part by a grant from Facebook to the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. The funder had no role in the decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. This survey was a collaborative effort involving contributions from individuals at multiple institutions, especially MIT, Johns Hopkins University, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), the World Health Organization and Facebook. At Facebook, key contributors were E. Kim, K. Mulcahy, P. Raja, S. Sasser, C. Velasco and T. Wynter. At MIT, we thank A. Ruel and S. Watts for managing other institutions gaining access to the microdata. We thank the millions of respondents to this survey worldwide.
Funding Information:
This work was funded in part by a grant from Facebook to the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. The funder had no role in the decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. This survey was a collaborative effort involving contributions from individuals at multiple institutions, especially MIT, Johns Hopkins University, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), the World Health Organization and Facebook. At Facebook, key contributors were E. Kim, K. Mulcahy, P. Raja, S. Sasser, C. Velasco and T. Wynter. At MIT, we thank A. Ruel and S. Watts for managing other institutions gaining access to the microdata. We thank the millions of respondents to this survey worldwide.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41562-022-01347-1
DO - 10.1038/s41562-022-01347-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 35606513
AN - SCOPUS:85130743346
SN - 2397-3374
JO - Nature Human Behaviour
JF - Nature Human Behaviour
ER -