COVID-19 Survey III (2022)

About In this third round of surveys 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. You can see results from previous years’ surveys here: 2020 and 2021. Survey Sections […]

Survey Overview and Demographics

General Overview

Geographic Coverage: United States

Expertise:

  • 65.24 Biology
  • 29.87 Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • 4.87 Biochemistry

Response Overview

Sample Size: 1891

Valid Responses: 164

Response Rate: 9.6

Date initial findings posted: 08.22.22

Most recent update: 08.22.22

Days survey in field: 37

Average response time: 12

Survey Demographics

Respondent Demographics:

  • 56% Female
  • 43.9% Male
  • 100% Academic
  • 0% Industry

Language(s): English

About

In this third round of surveys 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. You can see results from previous years’ surveys here: 2020 and 2021.

Survey Sections

Survey Section 01

Impacts to Scientific Research

Section Overview In this third 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 and the ways their institution responded. You can see results from the 2020 survey […]

Survey Section 02

Policy, Risks & Response

Section Overview In this third 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. You can see results from our first survey in 2020 here and our second […]

Survey Section 03

Personal Impacts

Section Overview In this third 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. You can see results from previous years’ surveys here: 2020 and 2021. Question Since […]

Survey Description

This national survey of scientists and engineers was conducted by Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies at Arizona State University. The population for the survey represents a random sample of PhD-level faculty in four fields of science. Three fields biology, biochemistry, and civil and environmental engineering,  were collected from 61 randomly selected Carnegie-designated Research Extensive and Intensive (R1) universities in the United States (US). The final sample included contact information for 1,891 scientists. A total of 164 usable responses were obtained, representing an AAPOR response rate (RR4) of 9.06%.

Sample Weighting and Precision: the completed sample was weighted by the inverse of selection probabilities and post-stratified by gender and academic field to represent the population as closely as possible. A conservative measure of sampling error for questions answered by the full sample is plus or minus 5 percentage points. The survey was approved by Institutional Review Boards at Arizona State University and at the University of Illinois at Chicago.