Austrian Weekday Sleep Duration Before and During COVID-19 Lockdown, 2017 and 2020

784 and 847 weighted survey responses from Austrian adults in September 2017 and May 2020, respectively, measuring weekday sleep duration. The dataset, created by Jürgen Degenfellner, shows a 40-minute increase in sleep duration during the lockdown. It includes established sleep correlates and COVID-specific factors like changes in sleep quality and emotional burden.

Use Cases

• Modeling sleep duration changes based on lockdown-related emotional burden and sleep quality changes.
• Analyzing the influence of chronotype and work schedule on weekday sleep patterns.
• Investigating the stability of sleep correlates like education level and smoking status across different time periods.
• Assessing the explanatory power of context-specific variables (e.g., attitude toward the future) in behavioral models.

Strengths

• Data is weighted to match the Austrian adult population by age and sex, enhancing representativeness.
• Includes a direct comparison of two time points (2017 and 2020) with a reported 40-minute increase in sleep duration.
• Model fit (R²) increased from 0.26 to 0.31 by including COVID-specific variables, demonstrating their explanatory value.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect self-reporting bias inherent to survey-based sleep measurements.

Provenance

Source

Jürgen Degenfellner via figshare

Collection Method

Population-based cross-sectional online surveys, weighted for age and sex.

Time Range

September 2017 and May 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 05:29:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Austria