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Commentary on "Tracking the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of American households"
Berzofsky, M. E. (2020). Commentary on "Tracking the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of American households". Survey Research Methods, 14(2), 185-186. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7737
Commentary at the end of the article by The CESR Covid-19 Task Force University of Southern California U.S.A., Survey Research Methods (2020) Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 179-186, doi:10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7737.
In the paper “Tracking the Effect of the COVID-19 Pan-demic on the Lives of American Households,” Kapteyn et al. describe how they adapted the Understanding America Study (UAS) to track the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper is an excellent illustration of the great power and po-tential of internet panels—especially probability-based pan-els. When international, national, or local events change quickly, launching a traditional survey is costly and often takes too long to field to fully measure the effect of the event of interest over time, particularly because the sample must be generated from scratch. Through the UAS—a probability-based internet panel with about 9,000 members—Kapteyn et al. describe how they are tracking the COVID-19 pan-demic in the United States as a whole and in Los Angeles, CA specifically.