One major finding is the strong and consistent association of lower educational level with most of the protective behavior outcomes. Interestingly, while high education seems to be clearly associated with behavior change, we found no educational gradient, i.e., there is no consistent pattern across all eight outcomes indicating a positive linear relationship between education and protective behavior. However, for most protective behaviors such as avoid gatherings, reduce personal contacts and meetings, or increased hand hygiene, our results suggest that lower educated people are less likely to undertake these measures. Contrary, lower education is associated with higher odds for undertaking no protective behavior at all. This is in line with surveys from other countries. A cross-sectional study among adults in the United States found a gradient between health literacy and change of daily routines (15). Accordingly, people with higher health literacy were more likely to change their behavior. A study among adults who were studying at a medical university or completed their medical education showed that both educational attainment and medical education is associated with protective behavior. Higher educated people adopted more preventive measures like wearing masks or using disinfectants (16). Another recent study from Saudi Arabia reported similar results, i.e., higher educated participants were more likely to adopt protective practices (17).