Dataset for: The relation between the Public Attitude towards COVID-19 and its Applied Policies - A Binational and Temporal Comparison

While countries applied different strategies in order to prevent a further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the measures found a varying degree of support within their countries populations. The goal of this study is to explore the relationship between people’s attitudes on the COVID-19 measures and the policies strictness. This questionnaire was distributed in Switzerland and Germany, and provides a binational comparison regarding the relation between COVID-19 policies and their respective public opinion. In detail, the following research questions are explored: 1. How do public attitudes differ between the Swiss and German population on respective, national COVID-19 policies? 2. Is there a change over time in the attitude of the two populations towards non-compliance? To answer the research questions we ran an online survey in July 2020 and May 2021 after the first and second wave of COVID-19 incidences. A total of 127 participants were asked to answer a total of 40 questions using a visual analog scale to identify the attitude towards COVID-19 policies. Further data on the participants’ information sources, health status and demographics were collected. In the analysis, the participants attitudes were compared with the COVID-19 policies that were in force at the time in the respective country. A series of independent one-tailed t-tests with a significance level of α= 0.05 were used to identify significant differences within a binational comparison. Bonferroni-correction was used to control for the bias due to multiple comparisons. Furthermore, the temporal development of the collected attitudes for both countries were explored by computing a Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney-Test.

尽管各国为遏制新冠疫情（COVID-19）的进一步扩散采取了差异化防控策略，但这些防疫措施在各国民众中获得的支持度存在显著差异。本研究旨在探究民众对新冠防疫措施的态度与防控政策严格程度之间的关联。本问卷在瑞士与德国境内发放，可用于开展两国新冠防控政策与各自公众舆论之间关联的比较研究。
具体而言，本研究围绕以下两个研究问题展开：1. 瑞士与德国民众针对本国新冠防疫政策的态度存在何种差异？2. 两国民众对防疫措施不依从行为的态度是否随时间推移发生变化？
为解答上述研究问题，研究团队分别在新冠疫情第一波与第二波流行浪潮结束后的2020年7月及2021年5月开展了线上问卷调查。共计127名受访者参与调研，需通过视觉模拟评分法（Visual Analog Scale, VAS）完成共40道题目，以量化其对新冠防疫政策的态度。此外，研究团队还收集了受访者的信息获取渠道、健康状况及人口统计学特征等额外数据。
在数据分析环节，研究团队将受访者的态度与对应国家当时施行的新冠防疫政策进行了比对。针对两国间比较的组间差异，研究团队采用了一系列显著性水平设为α=0.05的独立单尾t检验进行显著性识别，并通过邦费罗尼校正（Bonferroni Correction）控制多重比较带来的偏倚。此外，研究团队还通过威尔科克森-曼-惠特尼检验（Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test）探究了两国受访者态度的时序变化趋势。