Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey rounds (Round 1-5) and, with the latest survey round (Round 6) conducted over the phone in 2020 and 2021 as part of the Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey.Round 1 of Young Lives surveyed two groups of children in each country, at 1 year old and 5 years old. Round 2 returned to the same children who were then aged 5 and 12 years old. Round 3 surveyed the same children again at aged 7-8 years and 14-15 years, Round 4 surveyed them at 12 and 19 years old, and Round 5 surveyed them at 15 and 22 years old. Thus the younger children are being tracked from infancy to their mid-teens and the older children through into adulthood, when some will become parents themselves.The 2020 phone survey consists of three phone calls (Call 1 administered in June-July 2020; Call 2 in August-October 2020 and Call 3 in November-December 2020) and the 2021 phone survey consists of two additional phone calls (Call 4 in August 2021 and Call 5 in October-December 2021) The calls took place with each Young Lives respondent, across both the younger and older cohort, and in all four study countries (reaching an estimated total of around 11,000 young people).The Young Lives survey is carried out by teams of local researchers, supported by the Principal Investigator and Data Manager in each country.Further information about the survey, including publications, can be downloaded from the Young Lives website.

The Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, First Call, Second Call and Third Call, 2020 is an adapted version of the Round 6 survey with additional questions to directly assess the impact of COVID-19. The survey consists of three phone calls with each of our Young Lives respondents, across both the younger and older cohorts, and in all four study countries (reaching an estimated total of around 11,000 young people). The Phone Survey will enable Young Lives to inform policy makers on the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequently, and together with data collected in further survey rounds, Young Lives will be able to assess the medium and long term implications of the crisis. Further information is available on the Young Lives at Work webpage. The Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, First Call, Second Call and Third Call, 2020 is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 8678 and the Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey Calls 1-5 Constructed Files, 2020-2021 is held under SN 9070. Latest edition information:For the fourth edition (July 2022), region and cluster location variables have been added to the main survey datasets for all four countries, across the three phone surveys. Food security variables have also been added to the Second and Third Call datasets. A small inconsistency in the labelling of the typesite variable (urban/rural) has also been corrected. Additionally, documents related to copyright and survey references have been added, as well as a technical note related to the food security variables.

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The Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, First Call, 2020 data covers the following main topic areas:  information about the household (roster, demographics) knowledge and information about COVID-19 effect on health effect on household labour effect on education effect on caring responsibilities government support subjective well-being The Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, Second Call, 2020 data covers the following main topic areas:  COVID-19: Behaviours and risk perceptionssocio-economic statusrecent life history and economic changesfood security and pricesindividual healthcurrent educationtime useemployment and earningssubjective wellbeing and mental health The Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey, Third Call, 2020 data covers the following main topic areas: current educationfood security and other eventsmental healthemploymenttrust, solidarity, collective action and cooperation

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Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)