Consistency between Household and County Measures of Onsite Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The academic, socioemotional, and health impacts of school policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have been a source of many questions that require accurate information about the extent of onsite schooling occurring. This article investigates school operational status datasets during the pandemic, comparing (1) self-report data collected nationally on the household level through a Facebook-based survey, (2) county-level school policy data, and (3) a school-level closure status dataset based on phone GPS tracking. The percentage of any onsite instruction within states and counties are compared across datasets from December 2020 to May 2021. Sources were relatively consistent at the state level and for large counties, but key differences were revealed between units of measurement, showing

SUBMITTER: Lupton-Smith C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10441621 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature