GLD-SAIPAR Covid-19 Survey in Zambia

In March 2020, Zambia reported their first cases of Covid-19, with the government restricting non-essential travel, banning large public gatherings, and establishing emergency committees to spearhead efforts to contain the pandemic at a national level. GLD implemented a study in 2020 in Zambia to generate a better understanding of citizens' responses to such measures, and the impact of the pandemic on their individual lives and communities. In order to generate as complete a picture as possible of the local situations over time two rounds in Zambia. These rounds provided information on issues including knowledge of Covid-19; attitudes and fears surrounding health and economic impacts; social, economic, and health vulnerabilities; social distancing practices and other preventative measures. Particular attention was paid to the local variation in concerns over the social stigma, levels of enforcement, and engagement of different authorities. It is possible to merge a subset of this data with the Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI) 2019 dataset that contains variables that describe numerous aspects of what life looked like before the Covid-19 pandemic. It is also possible to merge a subset of this data with the Zambia Election Panel Survey (ZEPS) which consists of three rounds of data collected during the early campaign, pre-election, and post-election phases around the Zambian 2021 election. If you are interested in merging to either dataset, contact GLD at data@gld.gu.se SurveyToGo by Dooblo