Papua New Guinea High Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 : Data Collection - May-July 2021
This joint report by the World Bank and UNICEF-PNG presents the findings from two mobile phone surveys conducted in May, June and July 2021 in Papua New Guinea. The first survey, conducted in May and June, was the third in a series, with the first...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099704112092165650/P1772220aaf5650fd0ae98083bcd0bcb1a0 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37025 |
| Summary: | This joint report by the World Bank
and UNICEF-PNG presents the findings from two mobile phone
surveys conducted in May, June and July 2021 in Papua New
Guinea. The first survey, conducted in May and June, was the
third in a series, with the first round being completed in
June and July 2020 and the second round being conducted in
December 2020. This survey interviewed a total of 2,533
respondents about the impact of COVID-19 on their economic
activity and the results were weighted using information
from the 2016–2018 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to
reflect nationally representative estimates of the
socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19. The second survey,
conducted in June and July 2021, interviewed a total of
2,541 respondents (1880 of whom were from the first survey)
about the impact of COVID-19 on a range of areas that
broadly can be considered human development. These results
were also weighted using information from the DHS to develop
representative estimates. The report uses data that predates
the arrival of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in PNG and
therefore should be considered a snapshot of changes in
economic activity and human development from January to June
2021. The next round of data collection is currently planned
to start in November 2021 and thatsurvey will shed light on
the impact of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in PNG. The
surveys in this report show that in general there were
similar levels of economic activity and human development in
mid-2021 as the start of 2021, however the surveys do not
demonstrate a recovery to pre-pandemic levels. There was
stabilization across a range of indicators, including levels
of employment, access to education and healthcare as well as
public trust and security. However, there was some variation
across regions and wealth quintiles. The lack of
deterioration of conditions since the start of 2021 is
notable given that over this period there was a rapid
escalationof the COVID-19 crisis in March followed by a fall
in COVID-19 cases throughout May. |
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