Dear colleagues,

Survey Research Methods has just published a special issue on "Survey Research Method during the COVID-19 crisis at

https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/issue/view/219

We invite you to review the table of contents below my signature, and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

The issue collects four types of papers: (1) Commentaries about ongoing research using surveys, or related methods. (2) Proposals of designs to study Coronavirus-related questions using survey research, (3) New research initiatives related to the pandemic that already started. (4) Descriptions of the adaptation of ongoing surveys (PSID, Share, Understanding Society, etc.) to the lockdown policies.

Thank you for the interest in our work,

Ulrich Kohler, Editor of SRM

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Commentaries -------------

Critical Limitations of Digital Epidemiology: Why COVID-19 Apps Are Useless Jonas Klingwort, Rainer Schnell

Investigating selection bias of online surveys on coronavirus-related behavioral outcomes: An example utilizing the GESIS Panel Special Survey on the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in Germany Ines Schaurer, Bernd Weiß

Problems and pitfalls of retrospective survey questions in COVID-19 studies Lena Hipp, Mareike Bünning, Stefan Munnes, Armin Sauermann

Unit nonresponse biases in estimates of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence Julia C. Post, Fabian Class, Ulrich Kohler

Design proposals ----------------

Methodological Problems and Solutions in Sampling for Epidemiological COVID-19 Research Rainer Schnell, Menno Smid

Design for a Mail Survey to Determine Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Antibodies in the United States Alicia Frasier, Heidi Guyer, Laura DiGrande, Rose Domanico, Darryl Cooney, Stephanie Eckman

Assessing vulnerable populations during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak a mixed-methods approach Diego Rafael Moraes Silva, Camila Mont'Alverne

Surveying Entrepreneurs’ Perception of Society in Times of Corona: A proposal Michael Weinhardt, Julia Bartosch

Using Difference-in-Differences to Identify Causal Effects of COVID-19 Policies

Research initiatives --------------------

Partnering with a global platform to inform research and public policy making. What needs to be in place to make a global COVID-19 survey work? Frauke Kreuter, Neta Barkay, Alyssa Bilinski, Adrianne Bradford, Samantha Chiu, Roee Eliat, Junchuan Fan, Tal Galili, Daniel Haimovich, Brian Kim, Sarah LaRocca, Yao Li, Katherine Morris, Stanley Presser, Tal Sarig, Joshua A. Salomon, Kathleen Stewart, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Ryan Tibshirani

Combined mobile-phone and social-media sampling for web survey on social effects of COVID-19 in Spain Sebastian Rinken, Juan-Antonio Domínguez-Álvarez, Manuel Trujillo, Regina Lafuente, Rafaela Sotomayor, Rafael Serrano-del-Rosal

High Frequency and High Quality Survey Data Collection: The Mannheim Corona Study Annelies G. Blom, Carina Cornesse, Sabine Friedel, Ulrich Krieger, Marina Fikel, Tobias Rettig, Alexander Wenz, Julian Axenfeld, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Roni Lehrer, Sebastian Juhl

Tracking the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of American Households Arie Kapteyn, Marco Angrisani, Dan Bennett, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jill Darling, Tania Gutsche, Ying Liu, Erik Meijer, Francisco Perez-Arce, Simone Schaner, Kyla Thomas, Bas Weerman

Investigating the social, economic and political consequences of Covid-19: A rolling cross-section approach Cristiano Vezzoni, Riccardo Ladini, Francesco Molteni, Giulia M. Dotti Sani, Ferruccio Biolcati, Antonio Chiesi, Marco Maraffi, Simona Guglielmi, Andrea Pedrazzani, Paolo Segatti

The Need for Household Panel Surveys in Times of Crisis: The Case of SOEP-CoV Simon Kühne, Martin Kroh, Stefan Liebig, Sabine Zinn

Can we directly survey adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions? Evidence from a list experiment conducted in Germany during the early Corona pandemic. Peter Selb, Simon Munzert

A Cross-National Design to Estimate Effects of COVID-Induced Non-Pharmacological Interventions Dean Lillard

Adaptions ---------

Collecting survey data among the 50+ population during the COVID-19 outbreak: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Annette Scherpenzeel, Kathrin Axt, Michael Bergmann, Salima Douhou, Andrea Oepen, Gregor Sand, Karin Schuller, Stephanie Stuck, Melanie Wagner, Axel Börsch-Supan

The impact of Covid-19 on fieldwork efforts and planning in pairfam and FReDA-GGS Tobias Gummer, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Martin Bujard, Pablo Christmann, Karsten Hank, Tanja Kunz, Detlev Lück, Franz J. Neyer

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Labor Market Surveys at the German Institute for Employment Research Joseph W. Sakshaug, Jonas Beste, Mustafa Coban, Tanja Fendel, Georg-Christoph Haas, Sebastian Hülle, Yuliya Kosyakova, Corinna König, Frauke Kreuter, Benjamin Küfner, Bettina Müller, Christopher Osiander, Silvia Schwanhäuser, Gesine Stephan, Ehsan Vallizadeh, Marieke Volkert, Claudia Wenzig, Christian Westermeier, Cordula Zabel, Stefan Zins

How Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic Jonathan Burton, Peter Lynn, Michaela Benzeval

Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Survey Fieldwork: Experience and Lessons From Two Major Supplements to the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics Narayan Sastry, Katherine McGonagle, Paula Fomby

COVID-19 lockdown during field work: Challenges and strategies in continuing the survey Gisela Will, Regina Becker, Dominik Weigand