| Value |
Category |
Cases |
|
| Before COVID, they used to eat all 3 meals. |
|
1 |
|
| Didn’t pay their electricity bill during COVID and now they have arrears to pay. The month before last, Irangani pawned a piece of gold jewellery and paid LKR 15,000. |
|
1 |
|
| During COVID, Shaloni notes that they didn’t pay any bills, they only spent their money on food to eat. |
|
1 |
|
| Latha got her husband to live in his garage as he couldn’t travel due to lockdown/movement restrictions. During COVID, they didn’t buy any food. They managed by cooking whatever they had at home. They didn’t buy fish and meat during that time - bu |
|
1 |
|
| buying a lot less compared to then. For example, chicken - previously, even during Covid times, if they used to buy for LKR 300, it would be sufficient for two meals. They could eat for lunch and then for dinner too and could feed even another person. Now |
|
1 |
|
| in the last two years, the price of food has gone up and as a result they are buying less takes much longer to cook with kerosene than with gas – it takes her about 4 to 5 hours. Additionally, there is soot. Sometimes if breakfast is taking long to prep |
|
1 |
|
| she doesn’t stop buying what she likes/needs. She just buys a lesser quantity. Mariyam used the example of tomatoes - she finds tomatoes expensive now, however, she will even buy one and use it. Even with cabbage, she used to buy 500g, now she buys 250g |
|
1 |
|
| there weren’t any places to buy merchandise from, for her shop. Spent all the money they had in hand, during the first lockdown. Increase in prices of grocery items has made it more difficult |
|
1 |
|
| was doing business in a cart, however during COVID it was removed. Water connection was disconnected during covid as they were unable to pay the bills. People who have piped water connections also use public wells, because they don’t want it adding to t |
|
1 |
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
