Items corresponding to entire populations or subpopulations. Might be geographically or temporally temporally limited.

population

The dataset includes data from surveys about COVID-19 beliefs, norms, and behaviors from respondents around the world. Some of the questions in the survey include questions about perception of danger of COVID-19 risk to community, attitude towards taking COVID-19 vaccine, perceptions and attitudes about visiting places (restaurants, places of worship, retail store, health care center) with different levels of precautions. The API is no longer functional. If you are interested in this data, please request individual level data. For the full dataset containing individual level responses, please request the data at https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/docs/preventive-health-survey-request-for-data-access.

non-collection specific

(Simple) Released

Comma-separated values: a delimited text file format for tabular data.

Country

Earth

English

Jeni Stolow

Kiran Garimella

Avinash Collis

Sinan Aral

Dean Eckles

Dominick Shattuck

Alex Moehring

ORCID

Nina Gobat

M. Amin Rahimian​

Stella Babalola

Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its readability and broad applicability in web development, data science, and automation.

Python

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics, widely used among statisticians and data miners.

MIT COVID-19 Beliefs, Behaviors, & Norms Survey

A species of BETACORONAVIRUS causing atypical respiratory disease (COVID-19) in humans. The organism was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. The natural host is the Chinese intermediate horseshoe bat, RHINOLOPHUS affinis.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

SARS-CoV2

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Host

Actions of groups of people in response to outbreaks.

behavior

Behavior

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

Disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder

infectious disease

Infectious Disease

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

a data set that is about the human daily movement behavior of the individual huamns in a given population. 

human daily movement data set

Human Movement

Estimates of reluctance to being vaccinated.

vaccine hesitancy

Vaccine Hesitancy

Rates of compliance with policies/interventions including mask wearing, facility closures, large events, etc.

policy adherence

Policy Adherence

Information about media, coverage about a topic

media

Media

A service that has some information content entity as input and output.

data service

Data Service

viral Infectious disease

Viruses Infection

An acute viral infection of the respiratory tract, occurring in isolated cases, in epidemics, or in pandemics; it is caused by serologically different strains of viruses (influenzaviruses) designated A, B, and C, has a 3-day incubation period, and usually lasts for 3 to 10 days. It is marked by inflammation of the nasal mucosa, pharynx, and conjunctiva; headache; myalgia; often fever, chills, and prostration; and occasionally involvement of the myocardium or central nervous system.

influenza

Influenza

A respiratory tract infection caused by a virus. Viruses represent the most common causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections and include rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

viral respiratory tract infection

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection

A census that is the specific outcome of a population demographic survey.

population demographic census

Population Demographic

Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

Viruses

Unidentified influenza virus is a species of ssRNA(-) virus in the family Orthomyxoviridae.

unidentified influenza virus

Influenza virus

a census of infectious disease control strategies put into place to reduce infection acquisitions that are part of an infection in an ecosystem.

control strategy census

Control Strategy

Infection by an etiologic agent that can be passed between animals and humans.

Zoonotic Infection

Zoonotic infection

An intentionality directed at future participation in a vaccination.

vaccination intent

Vaccination Intent

An intentionality directed at future participation in a vaccination as the recipient of a vaccine or other immunization.

intent to be vaccinated

Intent to Be Vaccinated

a population treatment census that is about one or more vaccinations of organisms in a population

vaccination administration census

Vaccination Administration

A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some ethnicity.

ethnic identity information content entity

Ethnicity

A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some gender.

gender identity information content entity

Gender

A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some race.

racial identity information content entity

Race

age-stratified

Age-Stratified

Vaccine preventable diseases are those infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination

vaccine-preventable Disease

Vaccine-Preventable Disease

A treatment that consists of the administration of antigenic material to stimulate an individual's immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen.

vaccination

Vaccination

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Pathogen

A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.

data set

The 'about' property contains mixed types: DefinedTerm objects represent subject matter/topics, while Place objects represent geographical scope or applicability

about-property-structure

Apache 2.0

Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the web

Schema.org

A structured data markup specification for describing datasets in the life sciences, extending schema.org Dataset

Bioschemas Dataset Profile

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms - refined elements for precise resource description

DCMI Metadata Terms

W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary for describing data catalogs

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataCite metadata schema for research data citation

DataCite Metadata Schema

W3C Provenance Ontology for describing provenance information

PROV Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology for metadata about web resources

PAV Ontology

Custom MIDAS vocabulary for epidemiological data and modeling

MIDAS Metadata Vocabulary

OBO Foundry ontologies for life sciences and biomedical research

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology

GeoNames Ontology

Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7 FHIR

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms

SNOMED Clinical Terms

LOINC database for laboratory and clinical observations

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

JSON Schema (Draft 2020-12) defining the structure of MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD metadata records

MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD Schema

Landing page where users can browse and download dataset files in various formats.

Identifier	URL: https://covidsurvey.mit.edu/api.html
Type	Data Set
Topics/About	Behavior Human Movement Policy Adherence Vaccination Intent Intent to Be Vaccinated Vaccine Hesitancy Control Strategy Vaccination Vaccination Administration Data Service Disease Infectious Disease Vaccine-Preventable Disease COVID-19 Influenza Viruses Infection Viral Respiratory Tract Infection COVID-19 Influenza Zoonotic infection Influenza Host Homo sapiens Media Pathogen Viruses Influenza virus SARS-CoV2 Population Demographic Age-Stratified Ethnicity Gender Race
Language	English
Accessible For Free	TRUE
Biological Scale	population
Geographical Scope	Earth
Geographical Resolution	Country
Start Date	2020/07/06
End Date	2021/03/28
Collection End Date	2021/03/28
Software Language	Python, R
File Format	CSV
Version	unspecified
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2026/09/13