Thread by @ProfEmilyOster, Preliminary, unscientific data on child care centers which were open in the [...]

ProfEmilyOster

Preliminary, unscientific data on child care centers which were open in the pandemic, coming your way now. I cut data as of 3pm at 628 centers. A thread... (1/N)

Thanks for help from all of you, and especially @winnie, I have some survey data from child care centers which have been open in the pandemic. You can see everything I have so far here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L45r63t8hpYfGLpT6gWKjYMscu8Wut6jtlxO-1FAW9c/edit#gid=204576280
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Child Care Open in Pandemic: Data

High Level Summary HIGH LEVEL DATA SUMMARY: CHILD CARE SURVEY All Locations,All Locations > 10 Students Number of Centers,628,Number of Centers,328 Total Students Served During Pandemic,14,247,Total...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L45r63t8hpYfGLpT6gWKjYMscu8Wut6jtlxO-1FAW9c/edit#gid=204576280

(That's right, it's just a Google Sheet of data, but I did put some summary at the start). If you don't want to wade through, here is an image of the headline numbers (3/N)

And you can see some discussion of this in this post at @covidexplained (4/N) https://explaincovid.org/post/open-child-care-centers-data/IBbgwzCHrA84R45AaErk

COVID Explained

COVID-19 is confusing. There's a lot of conflicting information out there— can you get the virus from food? Is there such a thing as immunity? What kind of tests are really out there? Who is most at...

https://explaincovid.org/post/open-child-care-centers-data/IBbgwzCHrA84R45AaErk

I will refrain from too much comment. Yes, I am aware that crowd-sourcing data collection is not random. Think of this as systematic anecdote. If you want to make it better, get more people to complete the survey, which is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYIy0Dc9PW9sWCSWNXypw36FLoMiSx9jDalgDPcccK4T7ezQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
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Survey: Open Child Care During Pandemic

The goal of this survey is to collect some data on child care centers and home day cares -- really, any child care environments -- which were open during the pandemic. It's being run by Emily Oster,...

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYIy0Dc9PW9sWCSWNXypw36FLoMiSx9jDalgDPcccK4T7ezQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thanks to everyone who participated so far. (N/N)

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