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Socio-economic status, resilience, and vulnerability of households under COVID-19: Case of village-level data in Sichuan province
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 4, p e0249270 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper investigates economic impacts of COVID-19 on households based on differences in the socio-economic status (SES). We determine the household-level effects of the COVID-19 shock using income sources, types of industries, communities’ resilience, household susceptibility, and relevant policy measures. For this purpose, we used primary data of 555 households collected through snowball sampling technique using an online survey questionnaire from different villages mostly located in Sichuan Province, China. Using step-wise binary logistic regression analysis, we estimated and validated the model. Results suggest the use of SES as a better measure for understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on different households. We find that households with low SES tend to depend more on farmland income and transfer payments from the government. Contrarily, high SES households focus more on business and local employment as sources of income generation. Poor households were less resilient and more likely to fall back into poverty due to COVID-19, while the opposite stands true for non-poor households with high SES. Based on the estimations, policies encouraging employment and businesses complemented with loans on lower interest rates are recommended, which may increase the SES, thus minimizing vulnerability and enhancing the households’ resilience towards poverty alleviation and economic shocks.
- Subjects :
- Questionnaires
Viral Diseases
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Epidemiology
Economics
Vulnerability
Social Sciences
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Medical Conditions
Sociology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Economics of Poverty
Economic Status
Public and Occupational Health
Economic impact analysis
Socioeconomics
Animal Management
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Family Characteristics
Human Capital
Multidisciplinary
Agriculture
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Infectious Diseases
Geography
Research Design
Medicine
Psychological resilience
Research Article
Employment
China
Livestock
Science
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Research and Analysis Methods
Transfer payment
Humans
Social Stratification
Poverty
Pandemics
Socioeconomic status
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Survey Research
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Biology and Life Sciences
Covid 19
Economic Analysis
Health Care
Shock (economics)
Snowball sampling
Social Class
Socioeconomic Factors
Economic Impact Analysis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d8ec69be07471f78bf267f54e8f2e0c9