Stats Brief, April 2020 (Issue no. 23): Surveys Under Lockdown; a pandemic lesson

The Covid-19 crisis is affecting major data collection activities of national statistical systems around the world. This paper provides an overview of maximum impact of the pandemic crisis on different data collection operations and possible responses by the national statistical offices. It also proposes a mixed-mode panel survey design to enable continuing data collection under lockdown and after pandemic situation with minimum impact on quality of survey results.