The data from the Science Barometer special survey on COVID-19 are now available on the online platform FORSbase. On request, they can be accessed there and used for academic research.
In November 2020, Science Barometer Switzerland conducted an online survey asking a representative sample of the Swiss resident population about attitudes and information use during the Corona pandemic. The results were recently published.
Now the data from this special survey can be accessed in the online repository FORSbase of the Swiss Competence Centre for Social Sciences (FORS). The dataset comprises 1,072 cases and includes 103 variables on respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics, their attitudes towards the role of science during the pandemic, their knowledge about COVID-19, their information behaviour, and parents’ assessments of their children’s internet use. Detailed information on the methodology and the questionnaires in German, French and Italian are attached to the data set. In order to access the data, a request is necessary describing what the data is to be used for. The use is limited to academic research.
Befragungsdaten der COVID-19-Edition des Wissenschaftsbarometer Schweiz. Universität Zürich, Zürich. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne 2021. https://doi.org/10.23662/FORS-DS-1239-1