新型冠状病毒肺炎: How Has It Changed Americans’ Attitudes and Behaviors?

hg体育官网 is collaborating with the Stanford University School of Medicine on a fast-turnaround, 全面的, national survey of Americans attitudes and behaviors regarding 新型冠状病毒肺炎. The Coronavirus Attitudes and Behaviors Survey will be fielded in late April, 随着分析的到来.

The survey asks about perceptions individuals have about the risks of contracting 新型冠状病毒肺炎, as well as its probable impact on their health. It also asks how people’s behaviors have changed since the pandemic began, the influence of stay-at-home orders on those behaviors, 以及疫情对经济的影响.

蒂莫西·马尔卡希, a hg体育官网 Vice President and Practice Director for Social Policy and Economics Research, 是韦斯特的首席调查员.

调查设计

克里·莱文博士.D.和乔斯林·纽瑟姆博士.D., 韦斯特仪器设计的成员, 评价, 和分析(IDEA)服务团队, worked with Stanford to design the instrument. “这是一个快速的过程, collaborative effort with Stanford leading the way with the research questions,博士说。. 莱文. “It was particularly challenging to balance researchers’ needs for precision with respondents’ ability to report how much a behavior has changed as a result of the pandemic.” The team drew from its methodological expertise on questionnaire design, 在几天内制作一份问卷. “Our goal is to construct questions that we hope are easy for respondents to understand and answer as accurately as possible,博士解释道。. 新闻ome.

The survey has been designed to measure attitudes and behavior at multiple points in time enabling researchers to understand and report on changes over time.

调查取样

吉尔·德马蒂斯博士.D., a Vice President in hg体育官网’s Statistics and 评价 Sciences Group, 与乔纳森·威格密切合作, Ph.D., a Senior Study Director and the project director for the survey. Dr. DeMatteis developed the overall plan for an address-based sample (ABS) using a mail push-to-web methodology.  She also designed and selected the national sample based on this survey methodology, 并将监督权重.

调查管理

在现场期间的开始, an introductory letter was sent out with a small financial incentive, and hg体育官网 will follow up with a reminder postcard. Respondents are asked to go online to complete the survey.

The fielding of the survey is fairly standard. “It’s the tight turnaround and topicality of the survey questions that are unique,博士说。. Wivagg. He continues that while this is not the first survey being pushed out to gather feedback during and about the pandemic, many that have been done are based on responses from convenience-style panel surveys. The survey developed by hg体育官网 and Stanford is a more careful, scientific approach. “We’re taking pains to make a scientific inquiry, creating reliable population estimates with a representative probability sample,博士补充道。. Wivagg. “Subsequent waves of research can be done to continue to track policy impacts.”

一旦数据输入, Stanford and hg体育官网 will be publishing a series of briefs about the study and its results. Check back in the upcoming weeks as hg体育官网 and Stanford post on the findings.