Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223672 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13230
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing and wearing a face mask), beliefs about the Covid 19 pandemic and exposure to the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are nationally representative along three dimensions: age, gender, and household income, and in the US, it is also representative for race. The data were collected in the third week of April 2020. The data set could be used for multiple purposes, including calibrating certain parameters used in economic and epidemiological models, or for documenting the impact of the crisis on individuals, both in financial and psychological terms, and for understanding the scope for policy intervention by documenting how people have adjusted their behavior as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and their perceptions regarding the measures implemented in their countries. The data is publicly available.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
data
behaviours
health
beliefs
epidemic
JEL: 
I0
J0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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