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.
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
- Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Alauna Safarpour, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Anjuli Shere, Doctoral Student Researcher
The full current project team, including faculty and researchers at the other collaborating universities, is listed at chip50.org/people.
Visit chip50.org/papers for a full list of the project’s polling reports and research studies.
Support
The project is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Data collection was supported in part by Amazon.
