Impacts of COVID-19 on Work and Wages in Cox's Bazar : Part 1 - Host Communities
This brief summarizes findings from rapid welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. Two rounds of tracking surveys were implemented via phone interviews in 2020 to monitor the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on labor markets, wages, and household cop...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/163691622731451722/Impacts-of-COVID-19-on-Work-and-Wages-in-Coxs-Bazar-Part-1-Host-Communities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35675 |
| Summary: | This brief summarizes findings from
rapid welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. Two rounds of
tracking surveys were implemented via phone interviews in
2020 to monitor the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on labor
markets, wages, and household coping strategies. The first
round was conducted during the COVID-related lockdowns in
April-May 2020. A second round was conducted from
October-December 2020 (roughly 6 months after the
government-imposed lockdowns). These rapid phone surveys are
built on the Cox’s Bazar Panel Survey (CBPS), which is a
multi-topic survey that focused on socio-economic outcomes
and access to services. The baseline CBPS survey,
implemented in March-August 2019, was designed to be
representative of the recently displaced Rohingya population
(displaced after August 2017) and the entire Bangladeshi
host community in Cox’s Bazar. Within the host community,
the survey includes two strata: high exposure (HE, within 3
hours walking distance of a Rohingya camp) and low exposure
(LE, more than 3 hours walking distance from a Rohingya
camp) areas within the district. The overall sample size of
the CBPS baseline was 5020 households (and two adults per
household), split roughly equally across Rohingya camps and
host communities, and within the latter, equally among HE
and LE areas. Key modules of the baseline survey, including
detailed labor market modules were administered to two
randomly selected adults in each household. The first
tracking survey re-interviewed 3,012 adults originally
interviewed in the baseline, while the second survey
interviewed 3,438 adults baseline adult respondents (958 in
HE, and 927 in LE areas among hosts). This brief (Part 1)
focuses on key findings among the host community, with
findings for Rohingya in camps discussed in an accompanying
brief (Part 2). |
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