To monitor how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Zambia’s economy and people and to inform interventions and policy responses, the World Bank designed and conducted a rapid phone-based Household Monitoring Survey (HMS). This dataset is from the first round of this survey, and was conducted between June 5 and June 26, 2020. Monitors the economic and social impacts of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on households in terms of such topics as access to food staples, access to educational activities during school closures, employment dynamics, household incomes and livelihoods, income losses and coping strategies, and external assistance. The Round 1 dataset covers around 1,600 households and is representative of households with access to a mobile phone nationally and of Lusaka, urban excluding Lusaka, and rural areas.
