The COVID States Project (2020-2023) and Civic Health and Institutions project (CHIP50 2024-Present).

Publication information:

David Lazer, Matthew A. Baum, Katherine Ognyanova, Roy H. Perlis, Mauricio Santillana, James N. Druckman, Elijah Bader-Gregory, Thomas Chamberlain, Ali Mucteba Gokcek, Pauline Gordula, Hong Qu, Alexi Quintana Mathé, Dot Sawler, Jonathan Schulman, and Ata Uslu. 2025. “The COVID States Project (2020-2023) and Civic Health and Institutions Project (CHIP50 2024-Present). ”

Abstract

The Civic Health and Institutions Project, a 50 States Survey (CHIP50) was launched in by a multi-university group of researchers with expertise in computational social science, network science, public opinion polling, epidemiology, public health, communication, and political science. (COVID States Project 2020-2023, CHIP50 2024-Present).

CHIP50 provides access to state-level data on citizens’ opinions and behaviors for social scientists and health researchers. This initiative leverages and transforms the COVID States Project, which has collected large-scale survey data since April 2020.

CHIP50 collects non-probability representative samples from every state and D.C. to ensure inferences can be made about specific states and across them. The central mission of the project is to provide opportunities for researchers to submit applications for items on the survey, and, if accepted, collect data free of charge. The project is a public good that is expected to run, without data collection fees, through 2025.