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Table 1 Number of respondents, number of survey responses, and characteristics of survey responses

From: Social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 European countries – evidence from a two-year study

 

All

UK

BE

NL

DE

G123b

No. respondents

96,456

46,779

4423

3643

6427

35,184

No. responses

463,336

217,500

39,620

24,601

50,018

131,597

Age (%)

 18–29

13.8

13.3

12.6

16.6

10.9

15.5

 30–39

15.7

15.9

12.8

15.2

13.4

17.2

 40–49

16.7

16.6

17.3

15.8

11.6

19.0

 50–59

19.7

19.9

20.3

18.1

21.9

18.6

 60–69

22.2

21.6

24.9

22.8

29.1

19.7

 70 or above

11.8

12.6

12.2

11.5

13.1

10.0

Gender (%)

 Female

52.4

55.9

50.0

50.1

47.4

49.8

 Male

47.6

44.1

50.0

49.9

52.6

50.2

Household characteristics

 Living with at least one 65b years (%)

19.3

18.8

20.9

17.8

20.5

19.6

 Mean household size

2.3

2.3

2.2

2.1

2.1

2.6

Risk perceptiona (%)

 Catching coronavirus

5.3

4.2

4.2

5.3

4.7

7.7

 Serious illness from coronavirus

16.4

14.3

19.9

25.2

19.8

16.1

 Spreading coronavirus to vulnerable persons

22.0

19.4

20.2

26.3

26.8

24.2

Risk or risk mitigation (%)

 Used face covering

64.0

58.2

61.4

34.3

75.8

75.4

 Vaccinated

20.7

24.7

15.7

23.6

17.0

16.3

 Self-reported high-risk status

30.3

30.1

27.1

36.0

38.1

27.7

Presentation of symptoms (%)

 Fever

1.6

1.7

1.4

1.4

1.0

1.6

 Cough

4.9

5.6

4.6

3.5

1.5

5.4

 Shortness of breath

3.0

3.2

2.8

3.3

4.1

2.3

 Headache or body ache

14.9

15.6

12.7

10.9

14.6

15.2

 Congestion

8.0

8.0

7.9

7.7

7.1

8.3

 Sore throat

4.4

5.1

4.1

3.7

3.3

3.9

 Fatigue or tiredness

6.1

7.3

5.1

5.6

5.2

5.0

 Any symptomsc

25.6

26.7

23.3

21.4

24.0

26.0

  1. aParticipants answered a series of questions about their risk perception with Likert scale response options. Answers of “Strongly agree” are shown here
  2. bIndividual countries shown in Supplementary Material II
  3. cAny symptoms including fever, cough, shortness of breath, headache or body ache, congestion, sore throat, fatigue or tiredness, loss of taste or smell, and diarrhoea