CHIP50 provides access to state-level data on citizens’ opinions and behaviors for social scientists and health researchers. This initiative leverages and transforms the COVID States Project, which has collected large-scale survey data since April 2020.

CHIP50 collects non-probability representative samples from every state and D.C. to ensure inferences can be made about specific states and across them. The central mission of the project is to provide opportunities for researchers to submit applications for items on the survey, and, if accepted, collect data free of charge.  The project is a public good that is expected to run, without data collection fees, through 2025.

Our current work

In partnership with CUNY’s Center for Community Media and the Knight Foundation, we are honored to partner with newsrooms to conduct a wave of state-level surveys in late August and again in October, the results of which journalists can then tailor for their purposes and release exclusively. Our aim is to enable newsrooms to better understand the communities they serve, their values, and their perspectives. 

Interested in learning more? Contact: Libby Phillips, el.phillips@northeastern.edu