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Annotation:This four-page technical documentation report describes a survey fielded through the RAND American Life Panel (ALP) to assess the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on individuals and households across a variety of topics. This report provides a technical description of the survey, including a description of the ALP, the objectives of the survey, and information about the fielding of the survey.
The ALP is a nationally representative internet panel that has been recruited almost entirely through random digit dialing. To ensure that the panel is representative, respondents who do not have access to the internet are provided with a netbook computer and an internet subscription free of cost. This allows the flexibility and lower cost of an internet panel while still representing the segment of the population that does not have internet access. Panel members are invited to participate in online surveys once or twice per month on average. They are compensated financially for each survey to increase response rates and representativeness. The ALP began in 2006; since then, almost 550 surveys have been fielded on a variety of topics, including financial decision-making, health behaviors, retirement decision-making, numeracy, long-term care use, elections, and subjective well-being.
Three times per year, all panel members are asked to complete a survey that contains demographic information and questions about their employment status, household composition, health status, well-being, and health insurance. The responses to these questions are automatically added to all data collected in the panel, saving time and reducing respondent burden. Additional information on the technical aspects of the ALP is provided in Pollard and Baird (2017)."
Questions Adapted From: Several questions were taken or adapted from prior surveys; details are provided in the technical survey documentation available at https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA308-1.html
Population: Adults only
Length: 64 questions (for some questions, respondents are presented with a table and asked to choose a response for each item in the table. Each table is counted as one question)
Time to Complete: 20 minutes
Mode of Administration: Online (e.g., computer-assisted interview)
Administered by: Self Administered
Language(s): English
Citations: Carman, Katherine Grace and Shanthi Nataraj, 2020 American Life Panel Survey on Impacts of COVID-19: Technical Documentation, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 2020. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA308-1.html