Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, First Call, Second Call and Third Call, 2020

<div>The Young Lives study is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over 25 years, from infancy to adulthood, and through seven rounds of data collection. The five initial survey rounds (Round 1-5) were administered in person and were followed by Round 6, which consisted of five phone calls conducted in 2020 and 2021 as part of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey</span>. The latest in-person survey round, Round 7, was conducted in 2023 and 2024 in Ethiopia, Peru and India only.</div><div><br></div><div>Round 7 did not take place in Vietnam due to changes in governmental procedures on the international transfer of personal data. Additionally, during the data collection for Round 7, an armed conflict broke out in parts of the Amhara region in Ethiopia. For this reason, a shorter and simplified Round 7 questionnaire was conducted over the phone for those respondents who were living in the affected sites at the time of the Round 7 fieldwork. In total, 2,038 in-person interviews and 205 phone interviews were conducted in Ethiopia.</div><div><br>Round 1 of Young Lives was conducted in 2002 and surveyed two cohorts of children born seven years apart, aged 1 year old (Younger Cohort, YC) and 8 years old (Older Cohort, OC) at the time of the first survey round. Round 2 returned to the same children in 2006 when the YC and OC were aged 5 and 12 years old, respectively. Round 3 surveyed the same children again in 2009 at ages 8 years and 15 years, Round 4 surveyed them four years later in 2013 at the age of 12 and 19 years old, Round 5 took place in 2016 when the YC and OC were aged 15 and 22 years old, and Round 6 surveyed them in 2020-2021 at 19-20 and 26-27 years old. Round 7 took place in 2023 when the YC and OC participants were respectively 22 and 29 years old, with some of them becoming parents themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>The 2020 phone survey consists of three phone calls (Call 1 administered in June-July 2020; Call 2 in August-October 2020 and Call 3 in November-December 2020) and the 2021 phone survey consists of two additional phone calls (Call 4 in August 2021 and Call 5 in October-December 2021) The calls took place with each Young Lives respondent, across both the younger and older cohort, and in all four study countries (reaching an estimated total of around 11,000 young people).</div><div><br>The Young Lives survey is carried out by teams of local researchers, supported by the Principal Investigator and Data Manager in each country.<br><br>Further information about the survey, including publications, can be downloaded from the <a href="https://www.younglives.org.uk/" title="Young Lives" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Young Lives</a> website.</div><div><br></div>
The Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, First Call, Second Call and Third Call, 2020 is an adapted version of the Round 6 survey with additional questions to directly assess the impact of COVID-19. The survey consists of three phone calls with each of our Young Lives respondents, across both the younger and older cohorts, and in all four study countries (reaching an estimated total of around 11,000 young people). <br><br>The Phone Survey will enable Young Lives to inform policy makers on the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequently, and together with data collected in further survey rounds, Young Lives will be able to assess the medium and long term implications of the crisis. Further information is available on the <a href="https://www.younglives.org.uk/research-project/young-lives-work" target="_blank">Young Lives at Work</a> webpage. <br><br>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, First Call, Second Call and Third Call, 2020</span> is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 8678 and the <span style="font-style: italic;">Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey Calls 1-5 Constructed Files, 2020-2021</span> is held under SN 9070. <br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">Latest edition information:</span><br>For the fourth edition (July 2022), region and cluster location variables have been added to the main survey datasets for all four countries, across the three phone surveys. Food security variables have also been added to the Second and Third Call datasets. A small inconsistency in the labelling of the typesite variable (urban/rural) has also been corrected. Additionally, documents related to copyright and survey references have been added, as well as a technical note related to the food security variables.