Overview

RTI COVID-India was a bi-monthly phone survey designed to assess the health and socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on LASI-DAD households. The survey began in May 2020 and 9 rounds of data have been collected.

This survey aims to measure individual respondent's perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral reactions related to the pandemic. We strove to monitor the nationwide prevalence of COVID-19 symptoms, adoption of disease avoidance behaviors, rates of economic hardships and job loss, receipt of social protection benefits, food security, and the mental health of households.

The survey targeted one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female from each household. The survey took about 15 minutes to administer and was conducted via phone call every two months starting in May 2020. As we planned to re-interview the same respondents over a one-year period, we monitored the course of the pandemic carefully and adapted the instrument as needed to ensure that it addressed high-priority knowledge gaps. To ensure national representation and high-quality data collection, the instrument and consent were translated into 12 languages: Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Odiya, Marathi, and Telugu. All interviews were conducted in the respondent's local language to ensure respondent comprehension and comfort.

Data Access

Prior to access the RTI-COVID public, we request that the user register to the Gateway to Global Aging Data Website and sign a Data Use Agreement form (free of charge). Data and documentation can then be downloaded directly from the Gateway website.

Requested Citation:
Dey, A.B., Petrosyan, S., Theys, N., Chien, S., Angrisani, M., Khobragade, P., Banerjee, J., Agarwal, A., Bloom, D., Schaner, S., James, K.S., Lee, J. (2022) The Longitudinal COVID-India Study: Rounds 1-9, 2020-2022 [data collection]. Version A., https://doi.org/10.25549/cgvw-zm73