Evidence for changes in population-level subjective well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic from 30 waves of representative panel data collected in Austria between March 2020 and March 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study was conducted to describe how population-level subjective well-being (SWB) evolved throughout the pandemic.

Study design

Thirty waves of panel data representative of the Austrian population aged ≥14 years were collected between March 2020 and March 2022. Participants were quota sampled from a pre-existing online panel based on key demographics closely mirroring the Austrian resident population.

Methods

We present wave-specific means of SWB throughout 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic next to the evolution of the pandemic (cases and deaths) and stringency of lockdown measures in Austria as well as estimate their bivariate correlations.

Results

The analysed sample consisted of 3,293 participants contributing to a total of 46,168 observations.

SUBMITTER: Oberndorfer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9472574 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature