Determination of Socio-Economic Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey Using Logistic Regression

• Activity Number: 71 - COVID-19 and Survey Research Methods
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Sunday, August 7, 2022 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
• Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
• Author(s): Berna Yaz?c?* and Mustafa Çavu? and Emre Erdem
• Companies: Eskisehir Technical University and Eskisehir Technical University and Eskisehir Technical University
• Keywords: covid 19; Pandemic; Nominal Logistic Regression; Lockdown; Socio_Economic Effect

Abstract

Turkey met Covid-19 on March 11, 2020. Since then, the war against the virus continues with lockdowns, shot downs, regional lockdowns, online educations at every education level. After 1 year period, precautions are still being taken; Online education continues and lockdown is valid at the weekends since the number of new cases and the deaths are high. Bans have been toughened or loosened based on the number of cases.

This research was conducted in order to examine the socio-economic effects of the pandemic on Turkish people after 1 year from the beginning of the pandemic. An online survey was conducted between 1st Feb.-1st March 2021. 1425 respondents contributed to the study and data were analyzed. The results of nominal ordinal logistic regression were given in tables and they are also interpreted.