The Life with Corona survey. (August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stojetz, Wolfgang; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; Baliki, Ghassan; Díaz, Oscar; Elfes, Jan; Esenaliev, Damir; Freudenreich, Hanna; Koebach, Anke; Abreu, Liliana; Peitz, Laura; Todua, Ani; Schreiner, Monika; Hoeffler, Anke; Justino, Patrícia; Brück, Tilman
• Is Part Of: Social science & medicine. Volume 306(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-08
• Subjects: Social medicine -- Periodicals; Medical anthropology -- Periodicals; Public health -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Médecine sociale -- Périodiques; Anthropologie médicale -- Périodiques; Santé publique -- Périodiques; Psychologie -- Périodiques; Médecine -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 362.105
• DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115109
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0277-9536

Abstract

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. Highlights: New Life with Corona survey collects data across domains, time and SARS-CoV-2 rates. Analysis of data reveals multidimensional challenges and inequalities in the pandemic. The LwC survey also helps to grasp the societal impacts created by countermeasures. Results show need for joined-up thinking in how impacts of the pandemic are analyzed. Results show need for data structured in a way that supports this joined-up thinking.