COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey (Nigeria) (2020+)

The Nigeria National Longitudinal Phone Survey (NLPS) is a high-frequency phone survey of households, which was initially designed to follow the same households over time making it a powerful tool for studying and understanding the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

From April 2020 to April 2021, the NBS has successfully implemented the Nigeria COVID-19 NLPS Phase 1 (https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/3712) with technical support from a World Bank team from the Development Data Group (DECDG) and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice. In Phase 1, the NBS conducted 12 rounds of monthly phone interviews with over 1,700 households that were selected from the General Household Survey-Panel (GHS-Panel) 2018/19. The extensive information collected in the GHS-Panel just over a year prior to the pandemic provided a rich set of background information on the Nigeria NLPS households which can be leveraged to assess the differential impacts of the health crisis in the country.

The objective of the Nigeria NLPS Phase 2 is to monitor in real-time how the Nigerian households are coping with national and global crises and their effects on the welfare and livelihoods of the households. The households in the Phase 2 are drawn from the sample of households interviewed in GHS-Panel 2018/19 including those interviewed during the Phase 1. This survey has become a flexible tool that contributes to filling critical gaps in information that could be used by the Nigerian government and stakeholders to help design policies to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the oil prices crises, inflation and global value chain crises, among others. The Nigeria NLPS Phase 2 is designed to accommodate the evolving nature of the crises, including revision of the questionnaire on a bi-monthly basis.

The Nigeria National Longitudinal Phone Survey 2021-2022 covered the following topics:
- Household Roster (Rounds 1, 2)
- Access to Health Services (Round 1)
- Employment (respondent) (Rounds 1, 2)
- Non-Farm Enterprise (Round 1)
- COVID Vaccination (Round 1)
- Migration (Round 2)
- Household Migrants Roster (Round 2)