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Measurement Instruments in Corona Studies

  1. Contact-tracing smartphone apps that rely on users’ private data have been proposed as important tools in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of these apps, however, has sparked new debates on the value of...

    Authors: Susanne Helmschrott, Kartik Anand, Sophie Zhou and Tobias Schmidt
    Citation: Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences 2022 4:10
    Content type: New Measurement Instrument Published on:

  2. This article describes the context, development, objectives, and content of three instruments. They stem from two questionnaires, used in the ERiK-Surveys 2020 and the Corona-KiTa-Study (CKS), two multi-perspe...

    Authors: Johannes Wieschke, Diana D. Schacht, Florian Spensberger, Nicole Klinkhammer and Mariana Grgic
    Citation: Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences 2022 4:7
    Content type: New Measurement Instrument Published on:

  3. We explore mask-wearing behavior during the coronavirus pandemic using the Self-Appraisal of Masking Instrument (SAMI). We situate this survey-based instrument within a theory in which the decision to mask ref...

    Authors: Ray Block Jr and Eric Plutzer
    Citation: Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences 2022 4:4
    Content type: New Measurement Instrument Published on:

  4. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a vast increase in the demand for fast, frequent, and multi-faceted data to study the impact of the pandemic on people’s lives. Existing data collection infrast...

    Authors: Carina Cornesse, Marisabel Gonzalez Ocanto, Marina Fikel, Sabine Friedel, Ulrich Krieger, Tobias Rettig and Annelies G. Blom
    Citation: Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences 2022 4:2
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  5. This short report describes the development of a COVID-19 module for Round 10 of the European Social Survey (ESS). The module is formed of 20 items, including 10 agreed with ESS National Coordinators and 10 de...

    Authors: Tim Hanson, Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell, Richard Traunmüller, Kostas Gemenis and Levente Littvay
    Citation: Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences 2021 3:9
    Content type: Short Report Published on: