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.
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.
A joint project of:
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University
The School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University
Department of Political Science & Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
We thank Harvard University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, and Rutgers University for their continued financial and logistic support which made this project possible.
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation under grants SES-2029292, SES-2029792, and SES-2116645. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
This research was further supported by a grant from the Knight Foundation. We also received generous support from the Russell Sage Foundation. The project was also supported by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Data collection was supported in part by Amazon.
