Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan

The authors build a new database of highly spatially disaggregated indicators related to risk and resilience to the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan. The outbreak disproportionately affects groups, the elderly, the...

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Main Authors: Seitz, William, Tulyakov, Eldor, Khakimov, Obid, Purevjav, Avralt-Od, Muradova, Sevilya
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/544151607576919401/Uzbekistan-Dynamically-Identifying-Community-Level-COVID-19-Impact-Risks
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spelling okr-10986-349252022-02-17T18:27:23Z Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan Seitz, William Tulyakov, Eldor Khakimov, Obid Purevjav, Avralt-Od Muradova, Sevilya CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT POVERTY ECONOMIC SHOCK SMALL AREA POVERTY ESTIMATION ELDERLY PANEL SURVEY The authors build a new database of highly spatially disaggregated indicators related to risk and resilience to the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan. The outbreak disproportionately affects groups, the elderly, the poor, those living in areas under lockdown, and families who rely on remittance income are all examples of groups that are especially vulnerable to effects of the crisis in Uzbekistan. The authors assemble indicators summarizing concentrations of these and other risk factors at the lowest administrative level in the country, neighborhood-sized units called mahallas. Local official administrative statistics (published for the first time in this study) are combined with monthly panel survey data from the ongoing Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan project to produce an overall risk index, which is decomposable by dimension or risk factor to inform targeted and issue-specific responses. We then demonstrate a process for updating key indicators (such as employment or remittance flows) on a monthly basis using linked survey data combined with small area estimation techniques. These neighborhood-level results are intended to improve resource allocation decisions and are particularly relevant in Uzbekistan where local representatives are responsible for implementing key social and economic programs to respond to the outbreak. 2020-12-14T20:15:00Z 2020-12-14T20:15:00Z 2020-12-09 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/544151607576919401/Uzbekistan-Dynamically-Identifying-Community-Level-COVID-19-Impact-Risks http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34925 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study Europe and Central Asia Uzbekistan
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topic CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
POVERTY
ECONOMIC SHOCK
SMALL AREA POVERTY ESTIMATION
ELDERLY
PANEL SURVEY
spellingShingle CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
POVERTY
ECONOMIC SHOCK
SMALL AREA POVERTY ESTIMATION
ELDERLY
PANEL SURVEY
Seitz, William
Tulyakov, Eldor
Khakimov, Obid
Purevjav, Avralt-Od
Muradova, Sevilya
Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Uzbekistan
description The authors build a new database of highly spatially disaggregated indicators related to risk and resilience to the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan. The outbreak disproportionately affects groups, the elderly, the poor, those living in areas under lockdown, and families who rely on remittance income are all examples of groups that are especially vulnerable to effects of the crisis in Uzbekistan. The authors assemble indicators summarizing concentrations of these and other risk factors at the lowest administrative level in the country, neighborhood-sized units called mahallas. Local official administrative statistics (published for the first time in this study) are combined with monthly panel survey data from the ongoing Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan project to produce an overall risk index, which is decomposable by dimension or risk factor to inform targeted and issue-specific responses. We then demonstrate a process for updating key indicators (such as employment or remittance flows) on a monthly basis using linked survey data combined with small area estimation techniques. These neighborhood-level results are intended to improve resource allocation decisions and are particularly relevant in Uzbekistan where local representatives are responsible for implementing key social and economic programs to respond to the outbreak.
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author Seitz, William
Tulyakov, Eldor
Khakimov, Obid
Purevjav, Avralt-Od
Muradova, Sevilya
author_facet Seitz, William
Tulyakov, Eldor
Khakimov, Obid
Purevjav, Avralt-Od
Muradova, Sevilya
author_sort Seitz, William
title Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan
title_short Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan
title_full Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan
title_fullStr Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan
title_full_unstemmed Dynamically Identifying Community Level COVID-19 Impact Risks : Uzbekistan
title_sort dynamically identifying community level covid-19 impact risks : uzbekistan
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/544151607576919401/Uzbekistan-Dynamically-Identifying-Community-Level-COVID-19-Impact-Risks
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