Replication Data for: Entrenching right-wing populism under covid-19: denialism, social mobility, and government evaluation in Brazil

The data for this study comes from “A Cara da Democracia no Brasil” surveys conducted in 2018, 2019 and 2020 coordinated by the Institute for Democracy. The Institute is part of the Program of National Science and Technology Institutes funded by the Federal Government’s Capes Foundation and composed by researchers from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, State University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Campinas and University of Brasilia. Sample sizes vary by year, as does the mode of interviewing, but are representative of urban populations in Brazil. In 2018, 2500 face-to-face interviews were conducted in 179 municipalities. In 2019, another 2009 respondents were interviewed face-to-face in 151 municipalities and in 2020, 1000 interviews were conducted over the telephone in 69 municipalities. We will focus on the 2020 survey, collected in the first week of June, which included items on issues related to the pandemic. The 2020 survey is unique because it was conducted over the phone during the height of the pandemic first wave in Brazil. The fieldwork span from May 30th to June 5th, 2020, with a 3.1 per cent margin of error and 95 per cent confidence interval. The survey was in the field during a phase of accelerating deaths, which peaked a few weeks later, remaining at a plateau of high mortality rates. Hence, it was a moment of increased consternation with the disease as contamination and death rates were on the rise.