COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey 2020-2021 [Myanmar]

Data were collected nearly monthly. As of February 2021, 6 rounds of data collection had been conducted on a nationally representative sample of 1500 households, some of which had been interviewed in more than one round. Since the survey was conducted over the phone, it had to be corrected for lack of coverage of households who did not own a phone. The household survey questionnaire had core questions on respondents and household heads’ labor participation and income, farm and non-farm household businesses, food security, coping mechanisms and social assistance. Depending on stakeholders’ interests, the questionnaire adopted a modular approach, which allowed extending it in some rounds to cover health and education questions, and COVID-19 knowledge. The household survey questionnaire had core questions on respondents and household heads’ labor participation and income, farm and non-farm household businesses, food security, coping mechanisms and social assistance. In some rounds, the survey looked at households' access to health and to educational services.