The survey Values and Society During the Covid-19 Pandemic (HODYSE 2020) was designed and conducted by researchers at the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences to obtain up-to-date data on public opinion in six thematic areas: social trust, politics and democracy, conspiracy theories, vaccination, environment and leisure. The year 2020 was a year of significant socio-political changes. Since the beginning of the year, the most important topic in the public debate and in the media has been the global pandemic of COVID-19 disease. The pandemic became a central issue of both the ending and the new government after the parliamentary elections in February 2020. Findings from opinion polls have allowed us to capture how a pandemic has changed the traditional view of values, and how traditionally examined values have taken on new meanings. The data also document the severity of the pandemic situation during which the research was conducted (November 2020). In this context, the topics that resonated most in the public debate on COVID-19 were addressed - questions about vaccination, health concerns and the economic situation of respondents, or compliance with the measures.

Adult inhabitants of Slovakia, age 18+

Sampling and the fieldwork was provided by the research agency FOCUS. The sample was designed as representative for the following socio-demographic variables: gender, age, education, nationality, size of settlement and region. The research covers both - the population that has an Internet connection (online panel, CAWI) and the elderly population 60+ (interviewers, CAPI data collection):CAWI: 714 respondents (self-administred web questionnaire, 69.9% of the sample)CAPI: 307 respondents (F2F interviews, 30.1% of the sample)The sample was estimated separately for the CAWI part and for the CAPI part of the survey. In summary, the CAWI and CAPI sub-samples gave a representative sample for the Slovak population of 18+ in terms of given variables.