SOECBIAS-COVREF Data Set

Since the SOECBIAS survey period overlapped with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic it became an additional focus of the project and evolved into a further research project (COVREF) which started in June 2022 and ended in June 2024. This research project focused on the individual affectedness by the COVID-19 pandemic from an objective and subjective point of view. The two leading questions for COVREF were: What influence do objectively measurable factors like illness, job loss or loss of income during the COVID-19 pandemic have on the subjective assessment of economic affectedness and the perception of one’s own income position?

What impact do comparisons with reference groups or reference points have on the perception and assessment of economic affectedness?