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dc.titleIDB/Cornell Coronavirus Survey: Methodological Notes
dc.contributor.authorBottan, Nicolas L.
dc.contributor.authorHoffmann, Bridget
dc.contributor.authorVera-Cossio, Diego A.
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2020-06-26T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-06-26T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThe IDB/Cornell Coronavirus Survey collects information on labor market impacts, food security, social distancing, and knowledge regarding the Covid-19 pandemic through an online survey. The primary modules of the questionnaire were standardized across countries to allow data pooling and cross-country comparisons. The survey was launched in the first country on March 27, 2020, and the majority of responses were collected during April 2020. Respondents were recruited through social media using paid social-media advertisement campaigns. The dataset is entirely composed of responses to an online survey, and therefore it is unable to capture information regarding the most-vulnerable people, who may not have access to internet or social media. However, the survey was still able to collect information from different socioeconomic backgrounds and subnational regions. Thus, the data are useful for analyzing patterns across different socioeconomic groups and for making cross-country comparisons. The dataset includes weights to increase the within-country representativeness of the data, as well as weights that correct for differences in the response rate across countries and provide a larger weight to observations from countries with larger populations.
dc.format.extent18
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002464
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/IDBCornell-Coronavirus-Survey-Methodological-Notes.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Encuesta-coronavirus-BIDCornell-Nota-metodologica.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectSocial Media
dc.subjectHousehold Survey
dc.subjectCoronavirus
dc.subjectPandemics
dc.subjectLabor Market
dc.subjectFood Security
dc.subjectSocial Distancing
dc.subject.jelcodeI38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
dc.subject.jelcodeI14 - Health and Inequality
dc.subject.jelcodeH55 - Social Security and Public Pensions
dc.subject.jelcodeJ01 - Labor Economics: General
dc.subject.jelcodeD31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
dc.subject.jelcodeI32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
dc.subject.keywordsLabor markets;Inequality;Public Health;Online Survey;Coronavirus Pandemic
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-TN-01936
idb.operationRG-E1700
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