Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa

Research papers Authors Muna Shifa, Anda David and Murray Leibbrandt Coordination Anda David

OCTOBER 2020 No. 161

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Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa

Published on Oct 16, 2020

While the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic made everyone feel very vulnerable, the pandemic has made manifest the significant gaps between individuals in terms of exposure and in terms of the capacities to cope with such a major shock. The onset of the pandemic has seen a very active and promising response from quantitative social scientists attempting to use available household and labour market surveys to assist in framing evidence-informed emergency and longer-run policy responses. This paper implements two basic profiling frameworks in the South African context using the 2018 General Household Survey and the 2016 Community Survey.

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