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Table 1 Characteristics of respondents who completed the COVID-19 Health Behavior Survey during the period March 13–April 19, 2020 in Belgium (BE), France (FR), Germany (DE), Italy (IT), Netherlands (NL), Spain (ES), United Kingdom (UK), and United States (US). Unweighted sample

From: Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey

 

BE

FR

DE

IT

NL

ES

UK

US

No. participants

6253

6691

12,442

9741

5292

7491

8753

14,949

Participants per week

        

Week 11 (March 9-15)

-

-

-

2016

-

-

1188

1583

   

(21%)

  

(14%)

(11%)

Week 12 (March 16-22)

-

-

998

1937

-

-

800

2120

  

(8%)

(20%)

  

(9%)

(14%)

Week 13 (March 23-29)

-

1374

1590

1849

-

1004

3148

3247

 

(21%)

(13%)

(19%)

 

(13%)

(36%)

(22%)

Week 14 (March 30-April 5)

807

2356

3417

1771

1790

2458

1772

2873

(13%)

(35%)

(27%)

(18%)

(34%)

(33%)

(20%)

(19%)

Week 15 (April 6-12)

3103

1605

3379

1085

1743

2404

1040

3088

(50%)

(24%)

(27%)

(11%)

(33%)

(32%)

(12%)

(21%)

Week 16 (April 13-19)

2343

1356

3058

1083

1759

1625

805

2038

(37%)

(20%)

(25%)

(11%)

(33%)

(22%)

(9%)

(14%)

Sex

        

Female

4203

4712

7731

6337

3511

5128

5706

9833

(67%)

(70%)

(62%)

(65%)

(66%)

(68%)

(65%)

(66%)

Male

2050

1979

4711

3404

1781

2363

3047

5116

(33%)

(30%)

(38%)

(35%)

(34%)

(32%)

(35%)

(34%)

Age group

        

18-24

1016

1203

2577

2001

705

561

686

1598

(16%)

(18%)

(21%)

(21%)

(13%)

(7%)

(8%)

(11%)

25-44

1868

2086

4786

3949

1264

2743

2131

4051

(30%)

(31%)

(38%)

(41%)

(24%)

(37%)

(24%)

(27%)

45-64

2174

2217

3391

2633

2004

3078

3626

5120

(35%)

(33%)

(27%)

(27%)

(38%)

(41%)

(41%)

(34%)

65+

1195

1185

1688

1158

1319

1109

2310

4180

(19%)

(18%)

(14%)

(12%)

(25%)

(15%)

(26%)

(28%)

Education

        

Primary school or lower

298

127

189

354

215

296

97

22

(5%)

(2%)

(2%)

(4%)

(4%)

(4%)

(1%)

(0%)

Secondary school

2717

1353

7635

4819

3079

1889

3254

5668

(43%)

(20%)

(61%)

(49%)

(58%)

(25%)

(37%)

(38%)

University level

2919

4777

4036

4122

940

4465

4061

8989

(47%)

(71%)

(32%)

(42%)

(18%)

(60%)

(46%)

(60%)

Other

319

434

582

446

1058

841

1341

270

(5%)

(6%)

(5%)

(5%)

(20%)

(11%)

(15%)

(2%)