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About This Study
Study LA’s Los Angeles Public Opinion Survey is the largest general social survey of any metropolitan area in urban America. The survey provides a unique perspective into the quality -of -life perceptions, personal financial wellbeing, economic concerns, overall life satisfaction, and various civic issues facing Los Angeles residents.
Since 2014, StudyLA has engaged more than 18,000 residents through the survey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of hours of meaningful conversations about the future of the region.
While some questions are unchanged from year to year for the purposes of longitudinal analysis, new questions were added this year to reflect topics relevant to residents. Such topics include the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and how it has impacted residents over the last year.
The 2021 Los Angeles Public Opinion Survey involved 20 -minute telephone sessions and online and face -to -face surveys with 2,003 adults (845 phone, 911 online, and 247 face -to -face) living in Los Angeles County. The survey was conducted in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Korean from January 4 to February 15. The margin of error +/ - 3.0% for the entire sample. More on the methodology for this study can be found in the data brief, available at lmu.edu/studyLA.
For questions about this and other StudyLA research, please contact Associate Director Brianne Gilbert at brianne.gilbert@lmu.edu.
About This Report
This report focuses on the perceptions, attitudes, and opinions of Los Angeles residents toward the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and measures how it has impacted them over the last year. Residents were asked a range of questions on several topics, including personal impact, economic impact, remote work, school reopening, and vaccines.
This report presents toplines (total responses for each question) and crosstabs (all questions crossed by major demographics) pertaining to substantive questions.
All questions were asked of the entire sample (n=2,003) except for the three questions on comfort levels and the question about remote work accommodations. The questions about comfort levels are part of a battery that splits total respondents into three samples (n=668; 667; 668). The question about remote work accommodations was not asked of residents who said that remote work was not possible in their job/career/industry (n=1,698).
Publication Date
Spring 2021
Disciplines
Political Science
Recommended Citation for Report
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles. (2021). One Year Later: Public Opinion on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Loyola Marymount University.