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{"cacheLastCleared":"2021-03-16T06:30:05.111Z","cached":true,"citation":"\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/covid-19-polls/blob/master/covid_concern_polls.csv\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCOVID Concern Polls\u003c/a\u003e data by \u003ca href=\"https://www.fivethirtyeight.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFiveThirtyEight\u003c/a\u003e, licensed under \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCC BY 4.0\u003c/a\u003e","description":"Polling data on the concern of economical impact and infections brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each record measures the degree of concern about particular aspects of the pandemic by the population type and party of respondents.","id":"538_covid_concern_polls","isPrivate":false,"lastUpdate":"2020-09-01T12:37:04.772Z","name":"538 COVID Concern Polls","note":"\u003cstrong\u003eTime Series\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis data product is a time series, as such, one of the \u003cem\u003edate_start\u003c/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003edate_end\u003c/em\u003e variables should be included in any tabulations performed on it. In addition, tabulations should be created using the sum of a measure rather than the count or percentage of records.\u003c/p\u003e","provenance":"\u003cp\u003eThis data product is created through cleaning and simple transformations applied to the \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/covid-19-polls/blob/master/covid_concern_polls.csv\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCOVID Approval Polls CSV\u003c/a\u003e provided by \u003ca href=\"https://www.fivethirtyeight.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFiveThirtyEight\u003c/a\u003e through their \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/covid-19-polls\" target=\"_blank\"\u003egithub repository\u003c/a\u003e. This data is pulled daily.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eData Curation and Transformation\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe following data curation and transformation steps have been performed on the source data file.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eVariables have been renamed to be more descriptive.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe date_start and date_end variables have been reformatted to be ISO 8601 dates.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe poll_subject variable has been coded.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more in-depth information about the data curation process or how this data product's variables were mapped from the source file, please visit this data product's \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/mtna/data-public/tree/master/data/fivethirtyeight/covid-19-polls/concern-polls\" target=\"_blank\"\u003egithub repository\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","uri":"3d880393-8262-478b-b5b0-b09f159d0e52"}