CORSAIR - datasets

In February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the UK. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) had begun a series of surveys to explore public responses in late January 2020. Our project was activated by NIHR shortly after these surveys began.
In total, DHSC commissioned 73 waves of data collection. Data collection for the first survey was carried out on 28 to 30 January 2020 and data collection for the last wave was carried out on 11 to 13 April 2022 (n=149,640 responses). Surveys were conducted weekly at first, then moved to a fortnightly rhythm with some exceptions.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we contributed to survey design and analysed these data as part of a service evaluation of the Department of Health and Social Care’s public communications campaign. Now that the UK is no longer actively responding to the pandemic, we have been granted ethical approval to carry out secondary analyses of the pre-existing CORSAIR dataset by the Psychiatry, Nursing, and Midwifery (PNM) Research Ethics Panel (reference number LRS-22/23-39099).
This record includes the datasets arising from the study.