Looking for COVID side effects in the EU through the analysis of health and behavioural profiles

Aurea Grané (), Irene Albarrán and Diego Peran
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Aurea Grané: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Irene Albarrán: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Diego Peran: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2024, vol. 58, issue 6, No 10, 5225-5255

Abstract: Abstract More than two years after the great outbreak of COVID suffered in almost the whole world, and in particular in Europe, we have gradually learned about the direct effects of this virus on our health and what consequences it can have if we become infected. However, this pandemic also had great economic and social consequences that affected people in an indirect way, which we can call COVID side effects. In this work we carried out an innovative type of analysis based on the concept of archetypoids in order to find extreme observations in a database of mixed-type data and used them to classify individuals yielding to different health and behavioural profiles in coping with the COVID outbreak in the EU. We use data from the first COVID-19 Survey of the SHARE project (Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe). The resulting profiles are easier to interpret than others based on central observations, and help to understand how the situations of restrictions and lock-downs affected people since the outbreak of the pandemic. Another key point of the work was to analyse how determinant are some aspects such as gender, age group or even geographical location in how each person experienced the pandemic. The method that we propose is wide enough to be used in other health and wellbeing surveys.

Keywords: Archetypoids; Care economy; COVID; Profiles; Wellbeing; 62H30; 62P25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-022-01606-3

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