COVID-19 Survey IV (2024)

In this fourth round of surveys on COVID-19, we asked scientists about how the pandemic has continued to impact their professional and personal lives over the past four years.

Survey Overview and Demographics

General Overview

Study Date: 15.05.24–15.06.24

Geographic Coverage: United States

Expertise:

  • 77.4% Biology
  • 22.6% Civil and Environmental Engineering

Response Overview

Sample Size: 1874

Valid Responses: 163

Response Rate: 8.8

Date initial findings posted: 10.28.24

Most recent update: 10.28.24

Days survey in field: 31

Average response time: 10.5

Survey Demographics

Respondent Demographics:

  • 32.9% Female
  • 67.1% Male
  • 100% Academic

Language(s): English

About the Survey

In this fourth round of surveys on COVID-19, we asked scientists about how the pandemic has continued to impact their professional and personal lives over the past four years. Additionally, we sought their opinions on policy issues related to the pandemic.

Survey Sections

Survey Section 01

Impacts on Scientific Research

Section Overview In this fourth round survey on COVID-19, we asked scientists about the ways in which their professional and personal lives have been impacted over the past few years. We also asked their opinions on policy issues related to the pandemic and the ways their institution responded. Question Finding Scientists report that the top […]

Survey Section 02

Personal Impacts

Section Overview In this fourth round survey  on COVID-19, we asked scientists about the ways in which their professional and personal lives have been impacted over the past year. We also asked their opinions on policy issues related to the pandemic. Question Finding The most commonly experienced personal hardships related to the COVID-19 pandemic are:   […]

Survey Section 03

Policy, Risk & Response

Section Overview In this fourth round survey on COVID-19, we asked scientists about the ways in which their professional and personal lives have been impacted over the past few years. We also asked their opinions on policy issues related to the pandemic. Question  Finding The most commonly reported practices adopted by scientists’ home universities in […]

Survey Description

This national survey of academic scientists in the US was conducted by the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies (CSTEPS) at Arizona State University. The survey was approved by the Institutional Review Boards at Arizona State University. 

A random sample of PhD-level faculty in the fields of biology and civil and environmental engineering was collected from 61 randomly selected Carnegie-designated Research Extensive and Intensive (R1) universities in the United States (US). The final sample for survey invitation includes 1874 faculty members. This national survey obtained a total of 163 valid responses, representing an AAPOR response rate (RR6) of 8.8%. 

Sample weighting and precision: The respondents for this survey were weighted by the inverse of selection probabilities and post-stratified by gender, academic fields, and academic ranks to represent the full sample as closely as possible. A conservative measure of sampling error for questions answered by the sample of respondents is plus or minus 7.6 percentage points. 

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