Fig 1.
Number of COVID-19 cases reported to the Robert Koch Institute according to the onset of the disease, alternatively according to the reporting date [56].
Table 1.
Sample description.
Table 2.
Risk perception, perceived media coverage, knowledge and protective behaviour in women and men with different education levels.
Fig 2.
Cognitive dimensions of risk perception in individuals with different education levels during the pandemic.
Adjusted predictions from linear regressions with interaction between education level and calendar week (categorial and metric), adjusted for age group, gender, repeat respondent, community size, and federal state.
Fig 3.
Affective dimensions of risk perception in individuals with different education levels during the pandemic.
Adjusted predictions from linear regressions with interaction between education level and calendar week (categorial and metric), adjusted for age group, gender, repeat respondent, community size, and federal state.
Fig 4.
Perceived adequacy of media coverage in individuals with different education levels during the pandemic.
Adjusted predictions from linear regressions with interaction between education level and calendar week (categorial and metric), adjusted for age group, gender, repeat respondent, community size, and federal state.
Fig 5.
Perceived and factual knowledge in individuals with different education levels during the pandemic.
Adjusted predictions from linear regression (perceived knowledge) and logistic regression (factual knowledge) with interaction between education level and calendar week (categorial and metric), adjusted for age group, gender, repeat respondent, community size, and federal state.
Fig 6.
Protective behaviours in individuals with different education levels during the pandemic.
Adjusted predictions from logistic regressions with interaction between education level and calendar week (categorial and metric), adjusted for age group, gender, repeat respondent, community size, and federal state.
Table 3.
Protective behaviours in women and men.
Association with education level, risk perception and knowledge.
Fig 7.
Distance maintaining by severity and education levels among women and men.
Logistic regressions with interaction of severity and education level, adjusted for age group, repeat respondent, community size, and federal state, calendar week.
Fig 8.
Protective behaviours by factual knowledge and education levels among men.
Logistic regressions with interaction of factual knowledge and education level, adjusted for age group, repeat respondent, community size, and federal state, calendar week.