COVID-19 and the Experiences of Populations at Greater Risk: Wave 1 General Population, United States, 2020-2021 (ICPSR 38736)

Version Date: Sep 25, 2023

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Principal Investigator(s):
Anita Chandra, RAND Corporation

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38736.v1

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Summary

In the context of COVID-19, RAND and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have partnered to build from the National Survey of Health Attitudes to implement a longitudinal survey to understand how health views and values have been affected by the experience of the pandemic, with particular focus on populations deemed vulnerable or underserved, including people of color and those from low-to moderate-income backgrounds.

Questions in this COVID-19 survey focused specifically on experiences related to the pandemic (e.g., financial, physical, emotional), how respondents viewed the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic, whether and how respondents' views and priorities regarding health actions and investments are changing (including the roles of government and the private sector), and how general values about such issues as freedom and racism may be related to pandemic views and response expectations.

This study includes the results for Wave 1 for the general population.

Demographic information includes sex, marital status, household size, race and ethnicity, family income, employment status, age, and census region.

Citation

Chandra, Anita. COVID-19 and the Experiences of Populations at Greater Risk: Wave 1 General Population, United States, 2020-2021. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-09-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38736.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Census region

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2020-06-29 -- 2020-07-22

Date of Collection

2020-06-29 -- 2020-07-22

Data Collection Notes

  1. Respondents can be linked across all four waves using the RANDID variable.
  2. For more information, please visit the study report page on the RAND Corporation website.
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Study Purpose

The objectives of this survey were:

1. To understand the experience of COVID-19, with particular focus on underserved populations, especially in terms of income and race and ethnicity

2. To examine how these populations may be thinking about COVID-19 in the context of health mindset and expectations, the role of government versus the private sector, and health equity and to explore how this thinking evolves as communities continue to experience impacts but also recover

3. To identify, over time, whether American views about health and health equity have evolved and, in short, assess whether the progress toward a Culture of Health has evolved (e.g., greater understanding of what influences health, the existence of health inequities, the willingness and action to engage civically for health).

Study Design

Data were collected via the RAND American Life Panel (ALP) and the KnowledgePanel (administered by Ipsos). Both are nationally representative internet panels recruited via probability-based sampling methods. Both provide computers and internet connections for respondents who do not already have them. Both surveys were fielded from June 29 through July 22, 2020. The two survey efforts combined resulted in a final total sample of 5,164 completed surveys: 1,098 from the ALP and 4,066 from the KnowledgePanel.

Sample

Respondents for the RAND American Life Panel were recruited using probability-based methods (such as Address Based Sampling and Random Digit Dialing).

This survey was conducted in two parts. The first part is included in a longer and larger survey of underserved populations. In this survey respondents who were Black, Hispanic, or Asian in the ALP were oversampled. The ALP sample limited White individuals to those with household incomes under $125,000 but imposed no income limits on Black, Hispanic, or Asian respondents.

In addition to the data described above, data from respondents of higher income was collected. This group included panelists with incomes between $75,000 and $125,000 who were randomly not selected for the COVID-19 and the Experiences of Populations at Greater Risk Survey and all panelists with incomes over $125,000.

Time Method

Longitudinal

Universe

Adult population of the United States

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Source

RAND American Life Panel (ALP) and the KnowledgePanel (administered by Ipsos).

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

80.4%

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Original Release Date

2023-09-25

Version History

2023-09-25 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Weight

To make the sample representative of the selected population (or the overall population), the principal investigator used weighting, a statistical adjustment. To create weights to match the distribution of characteristics in the sample as closely as possible to that of the population from the 2019 Current Population Survey (CPS), a raking algorithm was used, following the methods described in Deming (1943) and Deville, Särndal, and Sautory (1993). The aim was to match population proportions on interactions of gender and race and ethnicity, gender and education, and gender and age and household income interacted with household size.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.