COVID-19: Citizens view
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A new public survey seeking views on COVID-19 has revealed overwhelming satisfaction with government’s response, amidst high insecurity about the future.
Vanguard Survey Pvt. Ltd implemented this nation-wide telephone survey from March 29 to 31 and it was co-designed and analysed by Verité Research Pvt. Ltd. Data was analysed from 2,064 respondents over the age of 18.
It revealed that 95.7 per cent of the respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with “how the government is trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka”. At the same time on a five-point scale, 60-70 per cent rated themselves at the high end of the scale as worried or very worried about their job, and about access to medicine, food, and money, in the month ahead.
The survey also assessed the present adequacy of food and medicine stocks; and, if not stocked already, the ability to access food, medicine and money. About two-thirds of the respondents had adequate food stocks, and either did not need medication or had adequate stocks.
The Census of Population and Housing 2012 was used to form a representative sample for each of the 25 districts in Sri Lanka. Further analysis will be available at the following link: http://bit.ly/COVID19VR