Wave 27 of the HHS Monthly Outcome Survey provides small area estimations for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Public Education Campaign. The data includes estimates and standard errors for audience size and vaccination enthusiasm by county and month. It is hosted on datahub.hhs.gov and was last updated on July 3, 2025.
Use Cases
- Modeling county-level vaccination enthusiasm over time using enthusiast_est and FIPS columns.
- Analyzing the precision of audience size estimates using audience_est and audience_se columns.
- Mapping geographic disparities in vaccine hesitancy by joining no_outreach_est data to county geometries using the FIPS column.
- Assessing uncertainty in survey estimates by comparing standard error columns (no_outreach_se, enthusiast_se) across different counties.
Strengths
- Includes Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes, enabling geographic joins and mapping.
- Provides standard error columns (e.g., audience_se, enthusiast_se) for assessing estimate uncertainty.
- Data is part of a longitudinal survey (Wave 27), suggesting a time-series structure for tracking change.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- datahub.hhs.gov
- Collection Method
- Monthly Outcome Survey (MOS) Small Area Estimations (SAE) for the HHS We Can Do This COVID-19 Public Education Campaign.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-07-03 14:26:17; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United States, county-level