Accomplishments in RP1:
- WP1: The survey was carried out from June to August 2021 and yielded 50,490 interviews in 28 countries.
- WP2: Results show significant differences in accessing healthcare due to economic and medical vulnerabilities. Limited access to health care was more common for the occupationally active, women, the more educated and those living in urban areas.
- WP3: Results show that there was a slightly higher risk of feeling lonely. In contrast, fewer participants felt ‘sad or depressed’, and fewer had sleeping problems. Stricter policies correlated with higher prevalence of protective behaviour.
- WP4: Results show that job characteristics have been major determinants of the probability of undergoing work interruptions and their duration. Women, self-employed and less educated workers have been negatively affected by the pandemic.
- WP5: Results show that that education and income before the pandemic have a protective role, and so does being past retirement age. For households under retirement age, the pandemic has exacerbated inequalities.
- WP6: Results show that providing personal care to parents increased in almost all European countries, while care to children decreased. In most countries, difficulties in receiving home care services from professional providers were reported. Face-to-face network contact significantly reduced negative mental health changes while electronic contact significantly increased them. Older Europeans responded strongly to the recommended protective behaviour measures, mostly due to fear of infection.
- WP7: These data will now be fed into epidemiological models of the SEIR type. First results from WP7 show that older Europeans across the continent have reduced their daily activities quite substantially during the pandemic.
- WP8: Results show that the mental well-being of couples suffered, the one of single persons living with others (typically their children) improved. Living in a city became detrimental, especially in apartments. Excess mortality in nursing homes is observed in Central and Eastern European countries.
- WP9: The WP has been responsible for the development of the questionnaire for the second round of the SHARE Corona Survey, data release, and dissemination. The new data was cleaned and linked it with the SHARE base panel to prepare the release of the data.
- WP10: The subwebsite for the SHARE-COVID19 project findings was created. Dissemination takes place via newsletter, social media or press release. Project members gave numerous interviews and talks presenting the initial results. The project fostered exchange with several projects and research networks.
Accomplishments in RP2:
- A total of 35 papers were published or accepted for publication
- In addition, 32 chapters for the draft of the First Results Book "Social, health, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemiological control measures. First results from SHARE Corona Waves 1 and 2" were prepared
- 2 project conferences on refined analyses with data from SHARE Corona Survey 1 (milestones 4) and SHARE Corona Survey 2 (milestone 5) were organized by WP1
- 6 national and international user workshops were provided to the research community
Accomplishments in RP3:
- A total of 73 publications
- The WPs have published 59 papers; 12 more are in preperation/submitted (the papers of WP4 without indication of journal/year/status are not included here)
Conferences:
- 2 project conferences organized by WP1
- 13 external conferences/workshops
During the fourth and final reporting period, the project accomplished the following tasks:
Publications:
- A total of 35 publications in the last reporting period
- Some more are in preparation or submitted.
- The First Results Book was published.
- Overall, 234 publications during the entire project duration
Data:
- SHARE Release 9.0.0 was used to generate the merged dataset containg pre-pandemic data, both rounds of SCS and post-pandemic Wave 9 data.
Conferences:
- The Final Dissemination Conference took place in Brussels on 26 June 2024.
- 9 external conferences/workshops/meetings
