Social contact patterns in the United Kingdom following the COVID-19 pandemic: The Reconnect cross-sectional survey

Goodfellow, L

(2026). Social contact patterns in the United Kingdom following the COVID-19 pandemic: The Reconnect cross-sectional survey. [Dataset]. PLOS Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1005038

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Three datasets associated with the PLOS Medicine publication, "Social contact patterns in the United Kingdom following the COVID-19 pandemic: The Reconnect cross-sectional survey". S1 Table covers the mean number of daily contacts between individuals of each age group, ethnicity, and NS-SEC class, stratified by setting (Total, Home, Work, School, and Other), as estimated by the weighted negative binomial regression model; S1 Table covers multi-variable proportions of daily contacts (by physicality, duration, frequency, setting, and adult/child); and S3 Table contains stratified analysis results showing projected infection share and risk ratios by demographic group. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides crucial data to inform post-pandemic mathematical models of infectious disease transmission, and allows ethnicity and SES to be incorporated in such models.

Keywords

social contact patterns; Respiratory infections

Item Type	Dataset
Resource Type	Resource Type Resource Description Dataset Quantitative
Capture method	Questionnaire
Date	12 May 2026
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	Goodfellow, L ; Quilty, BJ ; Van zandvoort, K and Edmunds, WJ
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Dynamics (2023-)
Research Centre	Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Funders	Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI Social contact patterns in the United Kingdom following the COVID-19 pandemic: The Reconnect cross-sectional survey National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit UNSPECIFIED https://doi.org/10.13039/100018336
Date Deposited	29 May 2026 15:56
Last Modified	29 May 2026 15:56
Publisher	PLOS Medicine