Civic Health & Institutions Project (CHIP50)

The Civic Health and Institutions Project, a 50 States Survey (CHIP50) was launched in 2020 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.

Visit CHIP50.org to read all of the project’s polling reports and research.

Team

The Kennedy School’s Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications Matthew Baum, whose research work is based at the Shorenstein Center, is one of the lead researchers on the project. Other Shorenstein Center affiliates who have worked on the project include:

• Jon Green, Postdoctoral Researcher (now Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University)
• Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Postdoctoral Researcher (now Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College)
• Alauna Safarpour, Postdoctoral Researcher (now Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College)
• Anjuli Shere, Doctoral Student Researcher (now at the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The full current project team, including faculty and researchers at the other collaborating universities, is listed at chip50.org/people.