COVID-19 gender data resources
Collecting data under COVID-19 poses challenges to national statistics offices and other stakeholders. Yet, such data are critical for informing policies and programs to offset the impact of the crisis. Gender data is one critical domain for understanding impacts. This crisis is having gender-differentiated impacts across a range of sectors. See World Bank collection of relevant gender materials.
This page features selected data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, which reveal the impacts of COVID-19 on males and females. It also includes data tools that are available for data collection efforts during the pandemic. It focuses on quantitative household and firm survey efforts in low- and middle-income country contexts. It is not meant to be exhaustive. This website is regularly updated as new material becomes available.
Results from World Bank surveys on gender-differentiated impacts of COVID-19
Additional sources for national statistics on gender-differentiated impacts of COVID-19
Tools for collecting data in the context of COVID-19 to measure gender-differentiated impacts
Tip Sheet for Engendering Data in COVID-19 Response Household Surveys
Measurement note and questionnaire example of capturing GBV through phone surveys during a pandemic
High-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19
Initiative overview
Sampling guidelines
Questionnaire template
Questionnaire overview
Interviewer material
CATI-based data collection guidelines
Enterprise Surveys – COVID-19 Follow Up Phone Surveys
Initiative overview
Framework and methodology
Questionnaire template
Indicator Descriptions