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National representative survey on use of information sources, perception of information and disinformation during the first stage of COVID-19 pandemic, Latvia, September 2020

    Dataset

    Description

    The dataset consists of three question blocks with closed questions. The first block includes questions about the respondents’ self-evaluated state of health and their attitude towards the COVID-19 pandemic. The second block comprises statements about the potential threat posed by the pandemic as well as statements that identify public mood, perceived disease risk, attitudes, and responses to the restrictions. In the third block of questions, respondents evaluate specific sources of information (Friends and relatives, Colleagues, Healthcare professionals, Latvian government institutions, Politicians and party leaders, Saeima (Latvian Parliament) deputies, TV, Radio, Newspapers, online news portals, social networking sites, International organisations such as World Health Organization (WHO), Celebrities and influencers) on a Likert scale of very trustworthy to very untrustworthy. the respondents' knowledge and trust in information Respondents also evaluate various statements regarding the causes of the pandemic, the places where it is possible to become infected, the transmission of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the effectiveness of vaccines, and opinions of scientists (2021-04-01)
    Date made available26 Jan 2022
    PublisherRīga Stradiņš University Institutional Repository Dataverse
    Date of data production16 Sept 2020 - 21 Sept 2020

    Field of Science

    • 5.8 Media and Communication

    Keywords

    • Information sources
    • trust
    • perceived risk disease
    • news fatigue
    • disinformation

    Access Dataset

    • Life with COVID-19: Evaluation of overcoming the coronavirus crisis in Latvia and recommendations for societal resilience in the future

      Tīfentāle, A. (Project leader), Kruks, S. (Member of project working group), Rožukalne, A. (Member of project working group), Dovladbekova, I. (Member of project working group), Berķe-Berga, A. (Member of project working group), Urbāne, M. (Member of project working group), Rungule, R. (Member of project working group), Lāce, T. (Member of project working group), Seņkāne, S. (Member of project working group), Mārtinsone, K. (Member of project working group), Vilka, L. (Member of project working group), Vanadziņš, I. (Member of project working group), Trapenciere, I. (Member of project working group), Lotko, M. (Member of project working group), Deklava, L. (Member of project working group), Matisāne, L. (Member of project working group), Paegle, L. (Member of project working group), Mihailova, S. (Member of project working group), Andžāns, M. (Member of project working group), Palkova, K. (Member of project working group), Sedlenieks, K. (Member of project working group), Jansone, N. (Member of project working group), Strods, R. (Member of project working group), Blese, I. (Member of project working group), Sabeļņikovs, O. (Member of project working group), Koķe, T. (Member of project working group), Grigoroviča, E. (Member of project working group), Plīkša, R. (Member of project working group), Kleinberga, V. (Member of project working group), Kalniņa, D. (Member of project working group), Šuriņa, S. (Member of project working group), Akmane, E. (Member of project working group), Dargis, R. (Member of project working group), Višķere, A. (Member of project working group), Linde, A. A. (Member of project working group), Šneidere-Pītersa, K. (Member of project working group), Freimane, G. (Member of project working group), Savicka, V. (Member of project working group), Smirnova, D. (Member of project working group), Ļubkina, V. (Member of project working group), Dzervinskis, J. (Member of project working group), Ušča, S. (Member of project working group), Poplavskis, J. (Member of project working group), Vindeče, A. (Member of project working group), Lonska, J. (Member of project working group), Arbidāne, I. (Member of project working group), Mietule, I. (Member of project working group), Murinska, S. (Member of project working group), Litavniece, L. (Member of project working group), Aņisimova, A. (Member of project working group), Bērziņa, I. (Member of project working group), Broka, A. (Member of project working group), Buholcs, J. (Member of project working group), Dāvidsone, A. (Member of project working group), Krūmiņš, G. (Member of project working group), Majore, G. (Member of project working group), Rajevska, F. (Member of project working group), Roentāle, S. (Member of project working group), Šapele, S. (Member of project working group), Silkāne, V. (Member of project working group), Zaķe, M. (Member of project working group), Mihailova, H. (Member of project working group), Zaķis, Z. (Member of project working group), Grīntāle, I. (Member of project working group), Umbraško, S. (Member of project working group), Rubene, Z. (Member of project working group), Daniela, L. (Member of project working group), Austers, I. (Member of project working group), Dziedātāja, S. (Member of project working group), Ķencis, T. (Member of project working group), Martinsone, B. (Member of project working group), Mirķe, E. (Member of project working group), Rasnača, L. (Member of project working group), Slokenberga, I. (Member of project working group), Bela, B. (Member of project working group), Civjāne, L. (Member of project working group), Niklass, M. (Member of project working group), Rūdolfa, A. (Member of project working group), Sarva, E. (Member of project working group), Āboliņš, V. (Member of project working group), Nesenbergs, K. (Member of project working group), Ormanis, J. (Member of project working group) & Ribners , I. (Member of project working group)

      Latvian Council of Science

      1/07/20 → 31/03/21

      Project: Research and development projects financed by the Latvian state budget › National Research Programme Projects

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