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AntiCOVID-19#7 Households’attitudestoinfectionandtothegovernmentmeasures:Thelatestsurveydata March2020
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IDEA anti COVID-19 # 7
Households’ attitudes to infection and to the government measures:
The latest survey data1 MARCH 2020
Václav Korbel, Vladimír Novák, Michal Šoltés, Lukáš Tóth
Brief summary
• This study presents Czech people’s real views about the Covid-19 pandemic from a survey carried out on a representative sample of internet users around the 20th March 2020. It thus presents very up-to-date information about people’s attitudes to the ongoing infection and, moreover, to the measures imposed by the government. The findings provide new and important information to be taken into account when planning further measures. For example, if people had not considered the restrictions on free movement or the requirement to wear face masks as appropriate and had not begun implementing them voluntarily, the relevant authorities would have had to enforce these measures.
1 This study represents the authors’ own views and not the official position of the Czech Academy of Sciences' Economics Institute (EI) nor of the Charles University Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE). We are grateful to Vojtěch Bartoš, Lubomír Cingl and Daniel Münich for their valuable advice and comments, and to Tomáš Šebek and Do Thu Trang for their willingness to work with us. This study was produced as part of a joint project between Behavio Labs and the IDEA think-tank. The study was produced with support from the Czech Academy of Sciences as part of its AV21 Strategy programme.
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