COVID-19 Georgia High Frequency Survey Wave 1, 2020

The COVID-19 Georgia High Frequency Survey (GHFS) 2020-21 - wave 1 comprises following modules: 1 - Household Identification, 2 - Household Demographics, 3 - Assets and Access to Internet, 4 - Prevalence of COVID-19, 5 - Distance Learning, 6 - Employment Dynamics, 7 - Income, 8 - Food Security, 9 - Shocks and Coping Strategies, 10 - Vaccine, 11 - Perception. The COVID-19 GHFS is based on phone-interviews with application of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and random digit dialing (RDD). The sampling frame is representative of the national and rural/urban/Tbilisi population. 1986 valid interviews were concluded in December 2020, equivalent to the response rate of 40%.  Partnering with the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the South Caucasus team in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank conducted a COVID-19 Georgia High Frequency Survey: Wave 1 (COVID-19 GHFS) to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on households in Georgia. The survey was collected in December 2020, and is the first of the 2 planned surveys to be completed by early 2021. The second Wave is expected to be conducted in January/February 2021.This survey is designed so that it also serves as the follow-up to the COVID-19 Monitor Survey (waves 1-6) conducted between late April and early June, 2020.