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IDB/Cornell Coronavirus Survey: 2020

By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)

The IDB/Cornell Coronavirus Survey collects information related to labor market impacts, food security, social distancing, and knowledge of the Covid-19 pandemic through an online survey. The main modules of the questionnaire were standardized across countries to allow data to be pooled and cross-country comparisons to be made. The survey was launched in the first country on March 27, 2020, and most responses were collected during April 2020. Participants were recruited through social media using paid advertising campaigns. The data consists entirely of responses to an online survey and therefore does not collect information on the most vulnerable people, who are likely to lack access to the internet or social media. However, the survey contains information for people from different social strata and subnational regions. In this sense, the data are useful for analyzing different patterns by socioeconomic groups within a country and between countries. The data include weights to correct for potential biases and achieve greater national representativeness. Additionally, weights are included to correct for differences in sample size between countries and provide greater weighting to observations from countries with larger populations.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/8a9h-jk84
License Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0 IGO
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Bottan, Nicolas L., et al. (2020). IDB/Cornell Coronavirus Survey: 2020. IDB Open Data. https://doi.org/10.60966/8a9h-jk84
Published date 2020-01-07
Modified date 2026-06-15
Tags/Keywords Coronavirus · Food Security · Household Survey · Labor Market · Pandemic · Social Distancing · Social Media
Language
  1. Spanish
Temporal coverage 2020-2020
Country
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela
Region Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Bottan, Nicolas L.
Hoffmann, Bridget
Vera-Cossio, Diego A.
Data collection type Survey Data
Statistical type Cross-sectional Data
Data structure Structured Data

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