UC survey reveals that more than half of the surveyed households lost all or almost all their income

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The UC Bicentennial National Survey revealed based on what was perceived in a household during a normal month before the pandemic that just over a third (33%) lost everything almost all or more than half of their income in the middle of the pandemic. Without a doubt, a worrying figure that adds to another 19% who said they had lost "more or less half.

Doing a quick calculation it is about 52% of the universe of respondents who reported having had losses in their income amounting to half or even more compared to their situation prior to the covid-19. In detail, migrants are the ones who appear to be most affected, since 65% of them answer that they lost everything, or almost all or more than half of their income. And, by socioeconomic sectors, 41% of the low stratum reported losses and only 19% of the high stratum. Ignacio Irarrázaval, director of the UC Center for Public Policies, told El Mercurio that what this survey accuses is that the most affected are self-employed, independent and informal workers. The formal ones on the other hand, are in a group in which there are more options for teleworking or suspending employment with the Employment Protection Law.

Irarrázabal told the morning, although the latest figures made by the UC Longitudinal Surveys Center speak of a small rebound in employment, the economic conditions of the population are still very shaky at risk.

The survey also revealed that the most relevant fear in the midst of the epidemic is the death of a close relative with 86 percent followed by the possibility of not being able to pay a medical bill in case of illness with 82 percent. In third place is the contagion by Covid-19 of one or a close one, with 74 percent, followed by the possibility of losing a job, with 60 percent, with the middle segment being the most concerned about this (64 percent percent) and adults between 35 and 64 years (67 percent).

Regarding the pandemic itself, in the Metropolitan Region there is more concern (35 percent), and there is a belief that there has been an undue price increase (85 percent), non-compliance with quarantines (81 percent) and concealment of information by the authorities (77 percent).

The research that the house of studies applies every year in Chile and that this time fully addressed the effects of the pandemic raised data between June 24 and August 5, managing to interview 1,002 people over 18 years of age, from 86 communes of the country. Of course, due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, this time this process was done through telephone interviews.