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In Chennai, India, many casual laborers–individuals who provide temporary, part-time work, often hired on an hourly or daily basis–are temporary migrant workers. These workers travel from their homes to the city for periods of time in search of work. In March 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, India instituted a strict lockdown. While some shorter-term restrictions were already in place, a strict all-India, three-week lockdown was announced with only a four- hour notice, stranding many migrants in the city without resources or access to important social services. Additionally, many migrants had limited savings and were unlikely to be able to sustain themselves for weeks or months without working.
Leveraging contact information and infrastructure from a previous randomized evaluation, researchers were able to quickly roll out phone surveys to male migrant workers and a subset of their wives, surveying the same individuals across five rounds of surveys from June to October. Survey questions solicited information about employment, household food security, mental health, and beliefs about the pandemic, among other topics. Researchers studied the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on intra-state migrants and their families in Tamil Nadu, India, through these five rounds of phone surveys.
To ensure positive transformational change and to work for the social development of underprivileged children and women.
Donate Now© 2023 Bring Smile,