Subject	Public Health
Specific subject area	Health Psychology, Social psychology
Type of data	Primary data, Tables
How data were acquired	Data was obtained using questionnaires hosted on an online survey survey platform (google forms). The questionnaire is included in this article and may be accessed online via the following link https://forms.gle/RjrcYpAkVQbhnN2s6
Data format	Raw, Analyzed, Filtered (descriptive statistics)
Parameters for data collection	The data for the survey were obtained from respondents in 180 Nigerian cities/towns with internet access.
Description of data collection	A combination of purposive and snowball techniques helped to select the respondents via Whatsapp and Facebook from all the 6 geopolitical zones of Nigeria.
Data source location	Surveys were conducted in all six (6) geopolitical zones of Nigeria
Data accessibility	Dataset is uploaded on Mendeley
	Repository Name: Mendeley
	Direct URL to data: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/k4nch8rrt5/draft?a=d5e854de-306d-48e7-a88e-71f2ccab80ff