The Concern of the European Citizens About Their Own and Family Health at the Beginning of Covid-19 Pandemic in May 2020

The initial data of the current research are taken from a Eurobarometer completed in May 2020. Twenty-one countries of the European Union are analyzed comparatively, neglecting seven very small European states. The 21,804 European citizens who were interviewed in May 2020 answered the questions OwnH and FamH. These questions refer to the concern produced by the action of the Covid-19 pandemic on one’s own health, as well as the health of family and friends. There is a very strong linear relationship between the trends of the ordinal categorical variables OwnH and FamH. Compared to own health (OwnH), citizens of the 21 European countries studied are more concerned about the health of family and friends (FamH). The chapter proposed a classification as well as a ranking of the European Union countries according to the answers given to the OwnH and FamH questions. The statistical approaches used refer to the application of statistical tests in order to verify the homogeneity of the opinions of various European populations, the use of the partial stochastic dominance relationship between two distributions, and the introduction of a trend indicator specific to categorical ordinal type variables, applying suggestive graphic representations as well.