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The COVID-19 pandemic is believed to have worsened living conditions, particularly among the poor and the vulnerable. Hence, the World Bank designed and implemented a High-Frequency Phone Survey of Households (HFS) to help monitor the COVID-19 crisis and assess the dynamics of its impact on households in Sudan.

The survey was implemented jointly by Sudan¡¯s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) and the World Bank. It was conducted using mobile phones¹ and covered both urban and rural areas across the 18 states of Sudan. Round 1 of data collection was conducted in June¨CJuly 2020, about three months after the declaration of the COVID-19 outbreak in Sudan and during lockdown. The same households were then called every two months for another five rounds.

The household survey covers questions on a range of topics and themes including, but not limited to: Knowledge of COVID-19 and social behavior; access to goods, education, and health services: food security, employment, income loss, subjective welfare, and coping strategies.

_{[1] The sampling frame is provided by the phone lists. Considerable efforts were made to compile the frame using multiple lists of phone numbers collected during the implementation of various projects/surveys during the last few years at the household level across the country.}