As part of the our Trust and Governance programme, IDS has partnered up with a team of international researchers from the ISDC, UNU-WIDER, IGZ and University of Konstanz on an exciting and very timely research initiative to collect real time data on the coronavirus and its social and economic consequences. The project is called Life with Corona, with overall aim to build a global knowledge base about how people are dealing with the exceptional situation we currently find ourselves living in. Life with Corona will run at least until the end of 2020.
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More about the survey
Life with Corona includes various modules that allow a comprehensive insight into daily life during the pandemic. Scientifically valid answers to these questions are of critical importance for dealing with the pandemic for maintaining health, nutrition, and social peace around the world. The team publishes insights from the survey almost every week, highlighting trends about trust in government, life satisfaction, stockpiling of supplies, compliance with recommended behaviours and more.
Life with Corona: Insights
Life with Corona has published regular insights since it was established on 23 March 2020. Among them are:
- Young adults actively perform many behaviours to counter the pandemic.
- Stress on families during the pandemic fall disproportionately on women who live with more than one other person.
- Older people are less stressed than younger people and are less worried about current circumstances.
- After the peak of COVID-related deaths, support for countermeasures drops.
- People around the world want a vaccine to be available globally – with the exception of people in the USA.
- Younger people are more willing to pay to stop the spread of the disease than older people.
- Older people are more likely to stockpile.
- In almost all countries analysed up to July 2020, there was a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. The most visible decline was observed in Portugal and Spain.
- Social distancing is the greatest impact of the crisis for Europeans and Americans, whereas Africans and Asians worry more about getting sick.
- Trust in government is on a decline everywhere, most of all in the USA.
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