Table 3.
Statistical distributions of the emulated questionnaire answers.
| Variable | Total tweets, n (%)a | COVID-19-related tweets, n (%) | P value | |
| Overall | 1,015,655 (100) | 27,216 (100) | N/Ab | |
| User type | ||||
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Person | 913,480 (89.94) | 19,869 (73.00) | <.001 |
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Organization | 102,175 (10.06) | 7347 (27.00) | N/A |
| Gender | ||||
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Male | 481,770 (52.74) | 11,997 (60.38) | <.001 |
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Female | 431,710 (47.26) | 7872 (39.62) | N/A |
| Age (years) | ||||
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≤18 | 346,483 (37.93) | 3542 (17.83) | <.001 |
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19-29 | 350,959 (38.42) | 5798 (29.18) | N/A |
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30-39 | 104,228 (11.41) | 3640 (18.32) | N/A |
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≥40 | 111,810 (12.24) | 6889 (34.67) | N/A |
| Concern | ||||
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Economics | 142,090 (13.99) | 9334 (34.30) | <.001 |
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Health | 141,176 (13.90) | 6152 (22.60) | N/A |
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Politics | 73,838 (7.27) | 5434 (19.97) | N/A |
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Education | 64,799 (6.38) | 4284 (15.74) | N/A |
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Entertainment | 79,119 (7.79) | 1736 (6.38) | N/A |
| Sentiment polarity | ||||
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Overall (–1 to 1), mean (SD) | 0.1067 (0.4647) | 0.0659 (0.4941) | <.001 |
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Positive (–1 to 0.05) | 431,247 (42.46) | 11,744 (43.15) | <.001 |
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Neutral (–0.05 to 0.05) | 318,713 (31.38) | 6632 (24.37) | N/A |
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Negative (0.05 to 1) | 265,695 (26.16) | 8840 (32.48) | N/A |
aAll values are expressed as n (%), except for overall sentiment polarity, which is expressed as mean (SD).
bP values were calculated for the main variables and not for individual responses.