Methods for rapid data gathering about COVID-19-related behaviour
| Method | Approach | Data |
| ‘Teledepths’ | Qualitative in-depth phone interviews with convenience samples of target audiences, eg, six casual labourers, six domestic workers, six seniors. | What are you are doing now? What has changed? What tools, infrastructure and support are you employing? What is helping? What is making it more difficult? |
| Phone polling | Quantitative national telephone polling surveys, repeated. | Reported behaviour, knowledge, intentions, trends. |
| Citizen science | Teachers asked to write or film and post-COVID-related behaviour stories. | Indicators and social and physical context of behaviour. |
| Routine data | Transport numbers, soap sales, sanitiser sales, google searches, food market activity, work absentee figures, school attendance, social media monitoring. | Indicators of actual behaviour. |