On Thursday, April 9, 2020, the Data Foundation launched a new household survey to understand the impacts of novel coronavirus in the United States.
The efforts by the Biden-Harris administration to prioritize data for addressing pandemic response and social equity issues are a promising sign about the path ahead for using data to responsibly inform policymaking. Three actions demonstrate incredible progress and momentum about the role data will play in the administration’s efforts.
The Data Foundation is launching the Policing in America Survey to fill a long-overdue gap in systematically understanding the American people’s views of the criminal justice system and police forces.
Today the Data Foundation released the first week (April 20-26, 2020) of data collected in the COVID Impact Survey. The survey is an effort to provide national and regional statistics about physical health, mental health, economic security, and social dynamics in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic.