Survey Participation in the Time of Corona: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Survey Participation in a Swiss Panel Study

Becker, Rolf; Möser, Sara; Moser, Nora; Glauser, David (2022). Survey Participation in the Time of Corona: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Survey Participation in a Swiss Panel Study. Survey Research Methods, 16(1), pp. 61-74. European Survey Research Association 10.18148/srm/2022.v16i1.7896

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The singular effect of a public shutdown in spring 2020 – as a result of non-pharmaceutical official orders and arrangements in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – on survey participation is investigated. The analysis is focused on panellists born around 1997 and living in German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. Utilising the techniques and procedures of event history analysis, the paradata of the fieldwork period are analysed in a dynamic micro–macro design. Several competing time-varying effects on the panellists’ survey participation and changes in the pandemic progress are controlled for, in addition to time-constant covariates, such as their education and social origin. Indeed, it becomes obvious that the public shutdown during the first wave of the pandemic improved the target persons’ propensity for survey participation.

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