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Young Lives at Work, Young Lives’ principal research project, will continue to follow into youth and young adulthood, the original study cohorts of children in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States), Peru and Vietnam, surveyed for the first time in 2002.

The YLAW team will conduct a 6th Round of our household (quantitative) survey followed by a 7th Round in 2024 (subject to additional funding).  The team will revisit the 12,000 children, now young people of 19 years old (Younger Cohort) and 25 years old (Older Cohort).

YLAW involves research into the factors that promote and/or constrain equality of opportunity and social mobility among young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on decent work and entrepreneurship as the key outcomes. Young Lives’ extensive life-history information allows us to explore pathways to outcomes in early adulthood and analyse the role of an extraordinarily rich set of individual, caregiver, household, education institution and community characteristics, including in some settings policies and programmes that have been implemented.

The team's plans for Round 6 in 2020 were well under way when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.  In response to the crisis, they established the revised research programme ‘Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 phone survey 2020’ and postponed the in-person Round 6 survey fieldwork by one calendar year to 2021.  For more details, please see our featured story on this page, read the blog on the Young Lives response to COVID and click on “Phone Survey” tab.

‘Studying the life trajectories of the Young Lives ‘children’ offers a unique opportunity to discover who is most likely to recover from a childhood in poverty, at what age, in which circumstances and with what implications for participation in the labour market and entrepreneurship’

YLAW co Principle Investigator, Marta Favara.

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Featured Story: Young Lives at Work: a revised approach in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project Information

Funder: UK's Foreign, Commonweath, and Development Office

Timeline: 2020 – 2024

Contact: younglives@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Principal Investigators: Young Lives Director (PI); Marta Favara (YLAW Deputy Director, co-PI)

Global Research Team

  • Ethiopia: Alula Pankhurst (Director), Tassew Woldehanna (PI)
  • India: Renu Singh (Director), Revathi Ellanki (PI)
  • Peru: Santiago Cueto (Director), Alan Sanchez (PI), Mary Penny
  • Vietnam: Nguyen Thang (Director), Duc le Thuc (PI)
  • Cath Porter (Senior Advisor)
Updates and Media

The 'Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID19' Phone Survey is now underway. We have trained enumerators in the four study countries and calls have begun to the 1000’s of young people who are part of our longitudinal study, to find out how COVID-19 is impacting their lives. 

The YLAW team will share reflections, insights and learning from conducting the Phone Survey on this page, in a series of blogs. Topics will include ethical considerations; methodological challenges; policy options and reflections from the field.

Girl studying in a mask
News Release: COVID-19: Inequalities widen for poorest young people in developing countries
News
4 Mar 2021
Man in a face mask
COVID-19: managing the pandemic in 2021
Blog
2 Mar 2021
La Presse screenshot
One virus, two worlds: Young Lives featured in La Presse
News
1 Mar 2021
Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty
News
4 Feb 2021
Ethiopian Man using sanitiser
News Release. COVID-19: poorest young people in developing countries hit by deepening inequalities and falling well-being.
News
22 Nov 2020
COVID-19 Phone Survey Headlines Report cover
Listening to Young Lives at Work: Second Call headline reports - out Monday 23rd November
News
19 Nov 2020
Hand washing in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19: update on the pandemic in Young Lives study countries
Blog
18 Nov 2020
Gardening during lockdown in Ethiopia
Listening to Young Lives at Work Covid-19 Phone Survey: First Call shows widening inequality
Blog
18 Oct 2020
First Call Data now available from UK Data Service
News
7 Sep 2020
Masked girl watering her garden
Hunger, lost income and increased anxiety: how coronavirus lockdowns put huge pressure on young people around the world
News
7 Sep 2020

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Phone Survey

The 'Listening to Young LIves at Work: COVID-19' Phone Survey is an adapted version of the Round 6 survey with additional questions to directly assess the impact of COVID-19.  lt will consist of three phone calls with each of our Young Lives respondents, across both our 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.

The resources used by YLAW to conduct the Phone Survey are available, Open Access, on this page.

Phone survey data available now
Phone Call Questionnaires

These documents present the complete scripts for Enumerators to follow when conducting the calls together with all the questions.

 

 

First Call QuestionnaireSecond Call QuestionnaireThird Call Questionnaire
Survey Manual

This detailed and comprehensive manual includes guidelines on how to train enumerators; data management; protocols; ethical considerations, reciprocity and safeguarding and step by step phone call scripts and questions.

Listening to Young Lives: COVID-19 Phone Survey: Survey Manual
Consultation Guides

A series of Consultation Guides are available for study participants which provide information on coronavirus and support available. These guides are published on our study country websites here: Ethiopia, India, Peru and an external site here: Vietnam

 

Technical Notes
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Publications
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Vietnam: Third Call
3 Mar 2021
Country report
Listening to Young Lives at Work in India: Third Call
3 Mar 2021
Country report
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Peru: Third Call
3 Mar 2021
Country report
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Ethiopia: Third Call
3 Mar 2021
Country report
COVID-19 could reverse 20 years of progress: emerging policy recommendations for young people in developing countries
13 Jan 2021
Policy paper
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Peru: Second Call
19 Nov 2020
Country report
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: Second Call
19 Nov 2020
Country report
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Vietnam: Second Call
19 Nov 2020
Country report
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Ethiopia: Second Call
19 Nov 2020
Country report
Listening to Young Lives at Work in Vietnam: First Call
COVID-19 Phone Survey Headlines Report
13 Aug 2020
Country report

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