Flash Eurobarometer 2712 (Women in Times of COVID-19)

Women in times of COVID-19.<br>Topics: negative impact of selected governmental measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic on personal mental health (scale): workplace and office closures, school and childcare closures, lockdown and curfew measures, limitations in the number of people allowed to meet, travel restrictions; most frequent feelings since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic: feeling lonely or isolated, feeling worried or anxious, concerned about personal mental wellbeing, worried about others developing mental health problems, missing friends or family, worried about personal future, feeling trapped, feeling depressed, feeling bored, none; preferred point to turn or activity in case of feeling stressed or anxious: friends or family, religious or spiritual group, online group, general practitioner, psychologist, hospital, hobbies, work or colleagues, nothing; change in financial dependency from partner or family due to the pandemic; attitude towards the following statements on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: negative impact on personal work-life-balance, respondent does less paid work due to the pandemic’s impact on the job market, consideration / decision to permanently reduce the amount of time allocated to paid work, change of professional decisions, negative impact on personal income, respondent does less paid work due to the increase in work at home; assessment of the development of violence against women in the own country due to the pandemic; acquaintance with women who experienced one of the following forms of violence: domestic violence or abuse, economic violence, street harassment, harassment at work, online harassment / cyber violence; preferred key measures to be taken in order to reduce physical and emotional violence against women in the own country: more awareness raising campaigns and more education about the subject, increase awareness and training of police and judiciary on the subject, make it easier to report violence against women, increase the options for women to seek help, improve women’s access to healthcare, improve women’s access to abortion, more measures to tackle online harassment, increase women’s financial independence, other; preferred gender-related issues to be tackled by the Members of Parliament as a priority; likelihood to vote in the next European Parliament elections (Sunday question); self-rated interest with regard to European issues; importance of the own country being a member of the European Union (scale).

Demography: nationality; type of community; family situation; age; sex; personal identification as: ethnic or religious minority, migrant / refugee / asylum seeker / displaced person, person with disabilities, LGBTIQ+, other minority group, none; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; household composition and household size.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; region; nation group; weighting factor.