Young Lives: Head Teacher Telephone Survey, Ethiopia and India, 2020

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><div>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Young Lives</span> survey 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 a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey rounds (Round 1-5) and, with the latest survey round (Round 6) conducted over the phone in 2020 and 2021 as part of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey</span>.</div><div><br>Round 1 of Young Lives surveyed two groups of children in each country, at 1 year old and 5 years old. Round 2 returned to the same children who were then aged 5 and 12 years old. Round 3 surveyed the same children again at aged 7-8 years and 14-15 years, Round 4 surveyed them at 12 and 19 years old, and Round 5 surveyed them at 15 and 22 years old. Thus the younger children are being tracked from infancy to their mid-teens and the older children through into adulthood, when some will become parents themselves.<br><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>
<br><br><p><span style="font-style: italic;">SN 9007 - Young Lives: Head Teacher Telephone Survey, Ethiopia and India, 2020</span><br>In 2020, a follow-up survey of head teachers was conducted to understand how the COVID-19 situation affected schools in Ethiopia and India. The survey investigated how schools provided support to children and families while schools remained closed, the effects of this on children's learning, and their plans for reopening. <br><br>The survey was conducted by Policy Studies Institute (PSI) in Ethiopia, Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in India and the University of Oxford. Both PSI and CESS obtained permission from the government for this survey to be conducted with head teachers. The research was done in collaboration with the REAL Centre, who were also carrying out surveys of head teachers (and teachers) during the school closures.<br><br></p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br><p>The main topics include:<br></p><ul><li>Covid-19 effects on schools and education</li><li>school closures due to the pandemic</li><li>school support to children' and families during the Covid-19 pandemic</li></ul>