The Consequences of COVID-19 on Livelihoods in Suriname: Evidence from a Telephone Survey
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
April 2021
Data
Subject
Financial Education;
Unemployment Rate;
Income Distribution;
Coronavirus;
Pandemics;
Household Income
JEL code
O54 - Latin America • Caribbean;
H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies;
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook;
R2 - Household Analysis;
D6 - Welfare Economics;
A1 - General Economics
Country
Suriname
Category
Technical Notes
A nationally representative telephone survey on the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic in Suriname was conducted during the month of August in 2020. This paper presents a summary of the main findings of that survey and a review of the pandemic as of mid-April 2021. We found that household income was affected through employment losses, business closures and reduction of remittances. With data from the 2016/17 Suriname Survey of Living Conditions (SSLC) an additional level of analysis found that, although the shock to household income was widespread, pre-existing inequalities across income and gender groups were exacerbated.
