G²LM|LIC- Women’s Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment

Data is based on a phone survey of 1,545 rural Indian households collected in August 2020 in 20 districts across 6 states (Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra) in Northern India in August 2020. Households participated in a 20–30 min survey with two parts, a household head module and a female respondent module. In the household head module the household head surveyed about the household’s socioeconomic conditions, household head’s income, the male and female heads’ nutrition, and the number of days the respondent wished for more food for themselves or their children. The nutrition questions were taken from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) 2015–16, allowing to use the pre-pandemic responses to the survey from the same district to benchmark nutritional outcomes. After the head module, if the head was male, the head was asked to pass the phone to a female household member (typically the female household head). The female responded to an additional survey asking about her mental health and status within the household, as well as if this had changed since the pandemic. In cases where the respondent to the head module was female, the same respondent answered the female survey. Altogether, this allowed the female module to be conducted with 573 women. To ascertain information on women’s mental health, a selection of questions from the PHQ9 depression diagnostic scale and the GAD7 anxiety scale was asked. For a subset of questions, respondents’ were asked if outcomes have changed due to the pandemic. For example, for each of the mental health questions above (as well as the safety question), respondents were asked a follow-up question about whether their experiences have improved, worsened, or stayed the same since the pandemic. Measuring changes in these outcomes, enables to both assess the aggregate effects of the pandemic and measure the relationship between lockdowns and outcome variables, accounting for pre-pandemic differences across individuals. Additional data on case rates/deaths The phone survey data were supplemented with additional district level data on COVID-19 cases and deaths between the start of the pandemic and the time of the survey. Also hospitalization data from HMIS were used.

本数据集基于2020年8月对印度北部6个州（拉贾斯坦邦、北方邦、比哈尔邦、达拉特南德邦、中央邦和马哈拉施特拉邦）20个地区的1,545户农村家庭进行的电话调查。调查持续20至30分钟，分为两部分：家庭成员模块和女性受访者模块。在家庭成员模块中，家庭成员就家庭社会经济状况、家庭成员收入、男女主人的营养状况以及受访者希望为自己或子女获得更多食物的天数进行了调查。营养问题来源于2015-16年全国家庭健康调查（NFHS），使得可以使用同一地区的疫情前调查结果作为营养状况的基准。在家庭成员模块之后，如果家庭成员为男性，则要求男性将电话转交给女性家庭成员（通常是女性家庭成员）。女性受访者回答了关于其心理健康和家庭内部状况的附加调查，以及自疫情以来这些情况是否有所改变。在家庭成员模块的受访者为女性的情况下，同一受访者回答了女性调查。总计，这允许女性模块由573名女性完成。为了确定女性的心理健康信息，从PHQ9抑郁诊断量表和GAD7焦虑量表中选取了一系列问题。对于部分问题，受访者被问及疫情是否导致了结果的变化。例如，对于上述心理健康问题（以及安全问题），受访者被问及是否自疫情以来他们的经历有所改善、恶化或保持不变。测量这些结果的变化，不仅能够评估疫情的整体影响，还能衡量封锁措施与结果变量之间的关系，同时考虑到个体在疫情前的差异。此外，数据集还补充了疫情开始至调查时间点的地区级别COVID-19病例和死亡数据，以及来自HMIS的住院数据。