COVID-19 Household Telephone Survey in Barbados: 2020

By Country Department Caribbean Group (VPC/CCB/CCB)

This dataset constitute a panel follow-up to the 2016 Barbados Survey of Living Conditions. It measures welfare related variables before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic including labor market outcomes, financial literacy, and food security. The survey was executed between May and June 2020. The Barbados COVID-19 Survey is a project of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It collected data on critical socioeconomic topics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic to support policymaking that can help curb the crisis impacts on the populations welfare. It recontacted households that had been interviewed by the Barbados Survey of Living Conditions (BSLC) in 2016 and was phone-based, given the mobility restrictions and social distancing measures in place. It interviewed 896 households and all their members over 29 days during May and June 2020 and gathered information on disease transmission, household finances, labor, income, remittances, spending and social protection programs. The Barbados COVID-19 Survey was designed and implemented by Sistemas Integrales. This report describes the main methodological aspects of the survey, such as sample design, estimation procedures, topics covered by the questionnaire, field organization and quality control. It also presents the structure and contents of the resulting datasets.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/wtr1-vd47
License Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0 IGO
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Beuermann, Diether;Giles Álvarez, Laura;Hoffmann, Bridget;Vera-Cossio, Diego A., 2020, COVID-19 Household Telephone Survey in Barbados: 2020, IDB Open Data, https://doi.org/10.60966/wtr1-vd47

Issued date 2020-10-30
Modified date 2025-04-10
Tags/Keywords COVID-19 · Financial Literacy · Unemployment
Language English
In Series Living Conditions Datasets
Temporal coverage 2020-2020
Geographic coverage
Barbados
Regional coverage Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Beuermann, Diether
Giles Álvarez, Laura
Hoffmann, Bridget
Vera-Cossio, Diego A.
Data collection type Survey Data
Statistical type Cross-sectional Data
Data structure Structured Data

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