Aristovnik Aleksander, Keržič Damijana, Ravšelj Dejan, Tomaževič Nina, Umek Lan
Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Data Brief. 2021 Dec;39:107659. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107659. Epub 2021 Dec 1.
The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has completely reshaped the lives of people around the world, including higher education students. Beyond serious health consequences for a proportion of those directly affected by the virus, the pandemic holds important implications for the life and work of higher education students, considerably affecting their physical and mental well-being. To capture how students perceived the first wave of the pandemic's impact, one of the most comprehensive and large-scale online surveys across the world was conducted. Carried out between 5 May 2020 and 15 June 2020, the survey came at a time when most countries were experiencing the arduous lockdown restrictions. The online questionnaire was prepared in seven different languages (English, Italian, North Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish) and covered various aspects of higher education students' life, including socio-demographic and academic characteristics, academic life, infrastructure and skills for studying from home, social life, emotional life and life circumstances. Using the convenience sampling method, the online questionnaire was distributed to higher education students aged 18 and over and enrolled in a higher education institution. The final dataset consisted of 31,212 responses from 133 countries and 6 continents. The relationships between selected socio-demographic characteristics and elements of student life were tested by using a chi-squared test. The data may prove useful for researchers studying the pandemic's impacts on various aspects of student life. Policymakers can utilize the data to determine the best solutions as they formulate policy recommendations and strategies to support students during this and any future pandemic.
由新型冠状病毒SARS-CoV-2引发的新冠疫情彻底改变了世界各地人们的生活，包括高等教育学生。除了给一部分直接感染病毒的人带来严重的健康后果外，疫情对高等教育学生的生活和学习有着重要影响，极大地影响了他们的身心健康。为了了解学生如何看待疫情第一波的影响，我们开展了一项全球范围内最全面、规模最大的在线调查之一。该调查于2020年5月5日至6月15日进行，当时大多数国家正在经历严格的封锁限制。在线问卷用七种不同语言（英语、意大利语、北马其顿语、葡萄牙语、罗马尼亚语、西班牙语、土耳其语）编写，涵盖了高等教育学生生活的各个方面，包括社会人口统计学和学术特征、学术生活、在家学习的基础设施和技能、社交生活、情感生活和生活状况。采用便利抽样方法，将在线问卷分发给18岁及以上且就读于高等教育机构的学生。最终数据集包含来自133个国家和6个大洲的31212份回复。通过卡方检验来检验选定的社会人口统计学特征与学生生活要素之间的关系。这些数据可能对研究疫情对学生生活各个方面影响的研究人员有用。政策制定者在制定政策建议和战略以在此次及未来任何疫情期间支持学生时，可以利用这些数据来确定最佳解决方案。
