A broad, although not universal, global preference for prioritizing health concerns over economic re-opening

This is the seventh in a series of weekly papers from GQR summarizing and analyzing available data on global opinion on COVID-19, with a particular focus on the political implications of global opinion linked to the pandemic. … • There is a broad, although not universal, global preference for prioritizing […] Read more »

Global job approval ratings for government handling of COVID-19 continue to trend down

This is the fifth in a series of weekly papers from GQR summarizing and analyzing available data on global opinion on COVID-19, with a particular focus on the political implications of global opinion linked to the pandemic. … • Despite some mixed data, global public concern about the virus continues […] Read more »

Navigating the ‘infodemic’: how people in six countries access and rate news and information about coronavirus

In this report, we use survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they […] Read more »

Pandemic Pollwatch: Worldwide concern about contracting the virus continues to rise

This is the fourth in a series of weekly papers from GQR summarizing and analyzing available data on global opinion on COVID-19. … • Worldwide, public concern about contracting the virus continues to rise, but global averages show a leveling off in the rate of increase in concern.• After an […] Read more »

Pandemic Pollwatch, April 2: An analysis of global public opinion on COVID-19

… A team of researchers at Oxford University has developed a single metric – a “Stringency Index” – to compare the overall national government responses to the pandemic across different states. The higher the stringency score, the more steps the country has taken across seven policy areas for responding to […] Read more »