CHIP50

Announcement🚨: Special Competition for Early Career Investigators

INTRODUCTION

American states play a crucial role in shaping public health, institutional, and political outcomes. The Civic Health and Institutions Project, a 50 States Survey (CHIP50) provides access to state-level data on citizens’ opinions and behaviors for social scientists and health researchers. The initiative leverages and transforms the COVID States project that collected large samples from every state and D.C. since April 2020. The data provide large non-probability representative (via weights) 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.

CHIP50 accepts proposals on a wide range of topics (e.g., health, politics, society) that can target all states, a subset of states, or the nation as a whole. The number of questions that can be asked varies and depends on the requested sample size. Applications are considered on a rolling basis. Details are provided at the links from this page.

The principal investigators of CHIP50 are Matthew Baum of Harvard University, James Druckman of Northwestern University/University of Rochester, David Lazer of Northeastern University, and Katherine Ognyanova of Rutgers University. Associate principal investigators of CHIP50 are Roy Perlis of Harvard University and Mauricio Santillana of Northeastern University.

To contact CHIP50 directly, you can e-mail: CHIP50StatesSurvey@gmail.com.

You can submit to CHIP50, here.

Note: this is a temporary website. The official CHIP50 site will be published in the coming weeks.