Sierra Leone
High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) reveal that Covid-19 awareness is not widespread in Sierra Leone. Households
           experienced reductions in income, food insecurity and low rates of government assistance.

                                          COVID-19 AWARENESS
                                                                                                                                    JOB LOSSES
                                          Eventhough all people have heard about Covid-19, 38%
                                          of people in urban areas and 34% of people in rural areas
                                                                                                                                    10% of people
                                                                                                                                    who were working before
                                          report knowing about social distancing in July 2020.
                                                                                                                                    the pandemic were no
                                                                                                                                    longer working in July 2020.
                                          INCOME                                                                                    Men (14%) were more
                                          75% of households experienced a drop in their income in                                   affected than women (6%)
                                          July 2020: 77% in urban areas and 73% in rural areas.                                     along with people working
                                                                                                                                    in public services (44%).

                                          FOOD SECURITY                                                              GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE
                                          56% of households ran out of food in the last 7                            1.2% of households
                                          days as reported in July 2020. A larger                                    received government assistance in
                                          proportion of households experienced this                                  July 2020. The same proportion
                                          event in rural areas (60%) in contrast to the                              received support in rural and urban
                                          proportion observed in urban areas (50%).                                  areas.
                                     Daily reported COVID cases as % of the                            Job losses per country as % of the
                                               country population                                     employed population before COVID
                                                                                                                    Survey rounds: last available
                               0.0010%
Cases as share of population




                                                                                                                                                                                     62%
                               0.0008%

                               0.0006%                                                                                                                               42%
                                                                                                                                                     33%
                               0.0004%                                                                                              26%

                               0.0002%                                                                  10%               12%
                                                                                       3%
                               0.0000%
                                          4/15/2020
                                          4/29/2020
                                          5/13/2020
                                          5/27/2020
                                          6/10/2020
                                          6/24/2020

                                          7/22/2020

                                          8/19/2020

                                          9/16/2020
                                          9/30/2020
                                         10/14/2020
                                         10/28/2020
                                           4/1/2020




                                           7/8/2020

                                           8/5/2020

                                           9/2/2020




                                                                                                                                                     CAF June 2020




                                                                                                                                                                                     KEN June 2020
                                                                                                         SLE July 2020
                                                                                       ETH May 2020




                                                                                                                                     ZMB June 2020




                                                                                                                                                                     COD June 2020
                                                                                                                         MWI June
                                                                                                                          2020




                                   Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus.
               Job losses as % of the workers in each                                  Households experiencing a drop in their
                      subgroup before COVID                                                personal and business income
                        By gender and sector                                                   Urban, rural and total
                           Survey rounds: July 2020                                              Survey rounds: July 2020
                   Total               10%                                              77%                                   75%
                                                                                                           73%
                   Male                   14%
                 Female           6%
            Public Serv.                                       44%
           Construction                      18%
          Other Services                    18%
        Food Production                  13%
                 Mining                11%
              Transport              9%
             Public Adm              8%
             Commerce           4%
          Manufacturing         4%                                                     Urban               Rural              Total


                 Households running out of food in the                                    Households receiving government
                             last 7 days                                                             assistance
                        Urban, rural and total                                             By gender, urban, rural and total
                            Survey rounds: July 2020                                             Survey rounds: July 2020
                                        60%
                                                       56%
                   50%                                                                   1.2%               1.2%              1.2%




                  Urban                 Rural          Total                             Urban             Rural              Total


Source: data from the High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) unless otherwise indicated. Note: The sample is nationally representative of the current
population of households with phone access. Survey round corresponds to July 2020. Approximately 6570 different individuals have been surveyed.
This note uses harmonized indicators which may not match country specific indicators.