Before, During and After the Deluge: Monitoring the French Resident Population's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic with a Probability-Based Longitudinal Survey

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ELIPSS is an ongoing French probability-based panel established in 2012. This online survey instrument has made it possible to collect a large amount of longitudinal data on material (socio-economic status, income and wealth) and socio-psychological conditions (subjective well-being, depression levels, family tensions), as well as underlying societal factors (resilience, social cohesion, social capital, degree of trust). This has allowed a wide range of social science researchers to monitor evolutions in French society over the past decade.Starting in March 2020, ELIPSS set up a survey protocol called Coping with Covid-19 (CoCo) to follow respondents’ daily lives and to assess the changes that individuals underwent over the onset of the pandemic and lockdown restrictions. The CoCo project has leveraged the panel by running eight ad hoc survey waves during the direst crisis moments of the first pandemic year, followed by two more administered in October and November 2022 to begin evaluating the long-term impact of the pandemic.With the ELIPSS panel, it is thus possible to analyze the behaviors and attitudes of the French resident population in times of crisis, and to situate the social effects of the pandemic in pre- and post-pandemic living conditions.