3.2 DATA USED IN THE STUDY

3.2 DATA USED IN THE STUDY

The present study uses primary data collected in an online questionnaire applied between

April 7 and May 11, 2020. The questionnaire has 15 questions that aim to verify how the

COVID-19 pandemic has affected people in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The data obtained

address issues such as income, employment, activities that were affected by the start of

the pandemic, people’s feelings about the pandemic, among others.

Additionally, some geographical regions of the city will be used, particularly the planning

regions, available at the public geographic database of the city hall (Instituto Pereira Passos

– IPP). These data have been geoenriched with the ArcGIS demographic data from the year

2018. Of the variables present in the database, the number of men and women, age, and

population density for each planning region in the city will be used.

Concerning the COVID-19 data, the public bases for mapping the pandemic will be used,

especially the data provided by the city hall of Rio de Janeiro, considering that in this data

information is included by the planning regions used in the present study. The database fed

by the Ministério da Saúde (Ministry of Health), for example, does not reach the level of

detail necessary to carry out the planned analyzes.

Finally, to verify how the questions related to the questionnaire were searched over time,

the Google Trends database will be used, as well as the official public databases related to

the pandemic in order to situate it in time and space in the analysis performed.

In the table below (Figure 11), it is possible to verify the data and sources used for the

present study’s analyses.

Data

Answers to the questionnaire Rio de Janeiro’s Planning Regions Geoenriched City Hall’s COVID-19 Dashboard Google Trends Figure 11. Data Source

Source

ArcGIS Survey123 (https://survey123.arcgis.com/surveys/a9ade036619c4f04b29d0e33b8849dfd/overview) Data Rio – Instituto Pereira Passos (https://www.data.rio/datasets/3033f988051a4ce38a396202bc205a2e_0) Painel Rio COVID-19 (https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/38efc69787a346959c931568bd9e2cc4) Package gtrends in R