The Austrian Corona Panel Project: monitoring individual and societal dynamics amidst the COVID-19 crisis
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The Austrian Corona Panel Project: monitoring individual and societal dynamics amidst the COVID‑19 crisis Bernhard Kittel1 · Sylvia Kritzinger2 · Hajo Boomgaarden3 · Barbara Prainsack4 · Jakob‑Moritz Eberl3 · Fabian Kalleitner1 · Noëlle S. Lebernegg3 · Julia Partheymüller5 · Carolina Plescia2 · David W. Schiestl1 · Lukas Schlogl4
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Abstract Systematic and openly accessible data are vital to the scientific understanding of the social, political, and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article introduces the Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP), which has generated a unique, publicly available data set from late March 2020 onwards. ACPP has been designed to capture the social, political, and economic impact of the COVID19 crisis on the Austrian population on a weekly basis. The thematic scope of the study covers several core dimensions related to the individual and societal impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The panel survey has a sample size of approximately 1500 respondents per wave. It contains questions that are asked every week, complemented by domain-specific modules to explore specific topics in more detail. The article presents details on the data collection process, data quality, the potential for analysis, and the modalities of data access pertaining to the first ten waves of the study. Keywords Behaviour and attitudes · Coronavirus · COVID-19 · Online panel survey · Pandemic response · Survey data · Social sciences
Introduction The COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally changed everyday life in Austria as well as in many other countries. Some people have been seriously ill. Some have experienced income or job losses, and those fortunate enough to work from home often struggle with combining housework and childcare. Students and their families have faced the various challenges related to home schooling. In sum, the Austrian population has experienced a period of rapid change. However, the challenges and * Bernhard Kittel [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article Vol.:(0123456789)
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implications for every person and family have been different. Given the severity of the COVID-19 crisis and its unprecedented disruption of many areas of social and economic life, it is vital to be able to systematically track and understand the consequences of such disruptions among the general population. Researchers from various areas need access to data in an open and free manner. This allows generating systematic scientific evidence and thereby contributes to the understanding of the crisis. In this article, we present the publicly available data set of the first ten survey waves of the Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP), which has been a multidisciplinary effort of social scientists from the University of Vienna investigating how information, attitudes, and behaviours are distributed across the population, and how these develop in the course of the crisis. This unique Austrian data set1 spans the period between the
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