The Life with Corona survey

Wolfgang Stojetz; Neil T N Ferguson; Ghassan Baliki; Oscar Díaz; Jan Elfes; Damir Esenaliev; Hanna Freudenreich; Anke Koebach; Liliana Abreu; Laura Peitz; Ani Todua; Monika Schreiner; Anke Hoeffler; Patrícia Justino; Tilman Brück

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115109

The Life with Corona survey

Soc Sci Med. 2022 Aug:306:115109. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115109. Epub 2022 Jun 4.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ ISDC - International Security and Development Center, Auguststr. 89, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Department of Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
² ISDC - International Security and Development Center, Auguststr. 89, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
³ Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1, 14979 Großbeeren, Germany.
⁴ ISDC - International Security and Development Center, Auguststr. 89, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1, 14979 Großbeeren, Germany.
⁵ Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstr. 10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany; Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstr.10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.
⁶ Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstr. 10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.
⁷ World Institute for Development Economic Research, United Nations University, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland.
⁸ ISDC - International Security and Development Center, Auguststr. 89, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1, 14979 Großbeeren, Germany; Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Medway Campus, Central Avenue Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time and space. Individual experiences of the pandemic are highly heterogeneous and its impacts span and interlink multiple dimensions, such as health, economic, social and political impacts. Therefore, there is a need to disaggregate "the pandemic": analysing experiences, behaviours and impacts at the micro level and from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Such analyses require multi-topic pan-national survey data that are collected continuously and can be matched with other datasets, such as disease statistics or information on countermeasures. To this end, we introduce a new dataset that matches these desirable properties - the Life with Corona (LwC) survey - and perform illustrative analyses to show the importance of such micro data to understand how the pandemic and its countermeasures shape lives and societies over time.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Humans
Pandemics*
Surveys and Questionnaires