Economic and Social Impacts of the Recent Crises in Tonga : Insights from the April-May 2022 Round of High Frequency Phone Surveys

This report includes: the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HT-HH) volcanic eruption (January 15, 2022) and a subsequent tsunami, COVID-19 outbreak and the associated lockdown (starting on February 2); to assess and monitor the economic and social impacts of the crises, the World Bank launched household-level HFPS with a plan to collect 6 rounds of surveys until mid-2024; surveys interview the same households across rounds to monitor various socio-economic outcomes and inform policy and government programs; and similar HFPS have been implemented in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands with Vanuatu and Fiji in the pipeline, under the World Bank Pacific Observatory initiative

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Format: Survey biblioteca
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2022-10-21
Subjects:VOLCANIC ERUPTION, HIGH FREQUENCY PHONE SURVEY (HFPS), SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT, ECONOMIC RECOVERY, COVID-19,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099740111032216982/P1771890fb9bd40fd0b5ae04ae7de39ab29
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38273
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Summary:This report includes: the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HT-HH) volcanic eruption (January 15, 2022) and a subsequent tsunami, COVID-19 outbreak and the associated lockdown (starting on February 2); to assess and monitor the economic and social impacts of the crises, the World Bank launched household-level HFPS with a plan to collect 6 rounds of surveys until mid-2024; surveys interview the same households across rounds to monitor various socio-economic outcomes and inform policy and government programs; and similar HFPS have been implemented in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands with Vanuatu and Fiji in the pipeline, under the World Bank Pacific Observatory initiative