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ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to conduct a special survey for evaluating the impact of the COVID-19.
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), Pakistan is currently trying to cope with this global challenge, however, it seems that the economy of the country will be shaken.
To access the impact of the coronavirus and its future implications, governments do not have any updated and representative nationwide data.
For development, finalization of the questionnaire, consultative virtual meetings were held with relevant stakeholders such as the FAO, the World Bank, the UNDP, the WHO, and the Ministry of Planning Development and Special Initiatives (PD&SI), and the questionnaire has been discussed in detail.
The survey approved by the secretary PD&SI has been sent to the Data Processing Center for designing of the database applications accordingly.
The variables include employment and income, income from second occupation, domestics, and foreign remittances, rent, and other work, job loss/migration due to the COVID-19, assistance from social protection programs, food insecurity, water, sanitation, and hygiene, coping strategies to tackle the shocks the COVID-19, selected durable items owned by the household, practices during the pandemic to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19, reduced use of health services and coping strategies adopted to tackle the shock. The survey will be conducted in all provinces and AJK.
