Weekly CoMix contact matrices for UKHSA COVID-19 dashboard and ONS COVID-19 infection survey age-groups

<p>Weekly contact matrices calculated from data collected as part of the UK arm of the CoMix survey. All contact matrices were&nbsp;calculated&nbsp;over two survey rounds (SR)&nbsp;of data to account for alternating panels (the indicated SR and the previous SR). Full details of composition can be found in Munday et. al. [1]. Contact matrices are provided for age-groups consistent with publicly available case&nbsp;data from the UKHSA COVID-19 dashboard <strong>&nbsp;(0-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+)&nbsp;</strong>and publicly available aggregates of infection and antibody prevalence from the ONS COVID-19 infection survey <strong>(2-10, 11-15, 16-24, 25-34, 35-49, 49-69 and 70+)</strong>. The data is provided in qs files&nbsp;as 1000 bootstrapped samples of each contact matrix for weekly &#39;survey rounds&#39; between 19 and 94 (see directory &quot;survey_round_dates.csv&quot;). The files that begin with&nbsp;UKHSA contain the contact matrices for the age stratification of&nbsp;the UKHSA COVID-19 dashboard case data. The files that begin with&nbsp;ONS contain the contact matrices for the age stratification of&nbsp;the ONS COVID-19 infection survey.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Ethics:&nbsp;The study and method of informed consent were approved by the ethics committee of the London School of Hygiene &amp; Tropical Medicine (LSHTM; reference number 21795).</p> <p>1. Munday, J.D., Jarvis, C.I., Gimma, A.&nbsp;<em>et al.</em>&nbsp;Estimating the impact of reopening schools on the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 in England, using weekly contact survey data.&nbsp;<em>BMC Med</em>&nbsp;<strong>19</strong>, 233 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02107-0</p>