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Socio-economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Woldia City, North Wollo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Received: 23 July 2021    Accepted: 6 August 2021    Published: 11 August 2021
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The global novel corona virus diseases COVID-19 pandemic was socio-economic crisis in all aspects of the human life. The impact of COVID-19 reflects our best collective available evidence, knowledge and expertise of the scale, nature and depth of socio-economic impacts in the country. We offer this as contribution to the expanding knowledge base on this critical issue, acknowledging and drawing upon the work of the government of Ethiopia, academic experts, development partners and consultants on this issue. Analysis of socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 and to identify factors affecting socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in Woldia city from the human beings. A Cross-sectional data was carried out between November and December 2020 in Woldia city from Ethiopia. A total of 383 samples using simple random sampling were interviewed. The binary logistic regression was applied to identify the effect of predictor variables on socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. According to the results in the study, 79.11% have and 20.89% have not socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 respondents have been involved respectively. The ages more than 15 was influenced in this study. From results age, challenges, family size, psychological impact and marital status were significantly affects COVID-19. The overall socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in this study were critical issue. The study strongly suggests that more could be done to assure socio-economic impacts of COVID- 19 provided were more carefulness.

Published in International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 9, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijebo.20210903.11
Page(s) 42-48
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Keywords

Corona Virus, COVID-19, Binary Logistic Regression, Woldia City, Ethiopia

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  • Department of Statistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  • Department of Statistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  • Department of Statistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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