Dataset:
Correlation coefficient:
Data sources:
- [EB] Standard Eurobarometer 95 (Spring 2021) - questions "QA6a.8. How much trust do you have in certain institutions?", sub questions "The Government" and "Health and medical staff";
- [EB] Eurobarometer: European citizens’ knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology (Summer 2021) - questions "QA8a.5. Do you think vaccines and combatting infectious disease will have a positive, a negative or no effect on our way of life in the next 20 years? " and "QA12a.10. Indicate if you think the statement 'Know best what is good for people' describes scientists well or describes them badly ";
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (Data on COVID-19 vaccination in the EU/EEA);
- OurWorldInData (data on excess mortality).
Eurobarometer data is transformed linearly to a 0 to 4 scale. It does not change the correlation coefficient. Vaccination data is for week 41, 2021, and excess mortality - week 40, 2021 (there are couple of weeks delays for some countries).