How to Survey Citizens’ Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Measures: Evidence from Three Survey Experiments

• Published in: Journal of experimental political science Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 310 - 317
• Main Authors: Daoust, Jean-François, Nadeau, Richard, Dassonneville, Ruth, Lachapelle, Erick, Bélanger, Éric, Savoie, Justin, van der Linden, Clifton
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Citizens; Compliance; Confidence intervals; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease transmission; Experiments; Medical research; Pandemics; Political science; Polls & surveys; Public health; Research Article; Respondents; Social distancing; Social norms; Voter behavior; COVID-19; survey experiment; compliance; public health; measurement; methodology; self-isolation

The extent to which citizens comply with newly enacted public health measures such as social distancing or lockdowns strongly affects the propagation of the virus and the number of deaths from COVID-19. It is however very difficult to identify non-compliance through survey research because claiming...