2020 and 2021 National Surveys of Scientists and Engineers on COVID-19

These are random probability sample surveys of academic scientists conducted online in this U.S. in May, 2020 and May 2021 to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on the science community. The surveys were conducted by the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies at Arizona State University. The surveys instrument examined questions regarding how COVID-19 and related policies impact academic research, funding issues related to COVID-19 science communication, and regulation of COVID-19 research. The surveys also collected data on individual background and perceptions of impacts, behavior and expectations due to COVID-19. The population for the survey included non-tenure track, tenured, and tenure-track academic scientists who hold the doctoral degree from three subfields (biology, civil and environmental engineering, and biochemistry) at 20 randomly selected universities classified as Carnegie designated research extensive (R1) universities in the United States. The sample was designed with the following protocol. We identified all R1 Carnegie classified research intensive institutions (131 total) using the most recent Carnegie listings. We then stratified the institutions by eight Carnegie region classifications. Because the eight regions vary in size, a proportionate distribution from each region was randomly selected, ensuring that selected universities within each region represented multiple states. For each selected university, we developed a list of all tenure and tenure track faculty and non-tenure track faculty in biology, civil engineering, environmental engineering, biochemistry and genomics. The final sample was randomly selected from these faculty lists. The completed sample was weighted by gender and academic field to represent the population as closely as possible. A conservative measure of sampling error for questions answered by the full sample is plus or minus 5 percentage points. The surveys were approved by Institutional Review Boards at Arizona State University and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (2020-05-30)

本数据集包含2020年5月与2021年5月于美国境内开展的线上随机概率抽样调查，旨在探究新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）对科学界造成的影响。
本次调查由亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）科学、技术与环境政策研究中心牵头实施。

本次调查问卷涵盖以下议题：新冠疫情及相关防控政策对学术研究的影响、新冠疫情相关科研传播的经费问题，以及新冠疫情相关研究的监管情况。同时，调查还收集了受访者的个人背景信息，以及其对新冠疫情所带来的影响、相关行为与预期的认知数据。

本次调查的研究总体为美国20所随机抽取的卡内基指定研究密集型（R1）大学的学术科研人员，具体涵盖持有博士学位的三个细分领域（生物学、土木与环境工程、生物化学）的非终身教职、终身教职轨道及终身教职科研人员。

本次抽样遵循以下流程开展：首先依托最新卡内基高等教育机构分类清单，筛选出全部131所卡内基分类研究密集型R1院校；随后按照8个卡内基区域分类对院校进行分层，由于各区域规模存在差异，采用按比例抽样的方式从每个区域中随机抽取院校，确保每个区域内入选的大学覆盖多个州。针对每所入选院校，我们整理出该校生物学、土木工程、环境工程、生物化学与基因组学领域的全体终身教职、终身教职轨道及非终身教职教职员工名单，并从上述名单中随机抽取最终样本。最终样本通过按性别与学术领域加权，尽可能贴合总体分布。

针对全部样本作答的问题，保守估计抽样误差为±5个百分点。
本调查已通过亚利桑那州立大学与芝加哥伊利诺伊大学的机构审查委员会（Institutional Review Boards）伦理审批。（2020-05-30）