“THE SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF NEWLY EMERGED PANDEMIC COVID-19 ON THE COMMUNITY” IN CASE OF SEKELA WOREDA

Abstract

The main purpose of this study has to assess the socioeconomic impacts of newly emerged pandemic covid-19 on the community. To acquire sufficient and detail information regarding the issue, mixed research approach had been utilized, as well as researcher employed a descriptive research design that intends to describe and reckon the socioeconomic impacts of covid-19 on the community. In this research, 319 respondents had been selected from the entire target population by employing both probability and non-probability sampling techniques. Along with probability sampling technique, cluster and simple random sampling methods had been utilized for opted respondents. From the non-probability sampling technique on the other hand, purposive sampling has been employed to attain a pivotal and constructive data that pertinent to the study. The data which have been obtained from the quantitative research methods such as; survey questionnaires will be analyzed through descriptive statistics, frequency of mean, percentage and pie chart, while the qualitative data which had obtained from key informant interview had been analyzed by thematic and content analyses. The finding obtained from the study; among the entire respondents, 288 (90.3%) of were not wear mask and keep their physical distance to protect the pervasiveness of the pandemic. Besides, majority of peoples were not goes to hospital to attain primary assistant after the emergency of covid-19. In succinctly, covid-19 brought huge socioeconomic impacts on the community, such as conflict, theft, over crowdedness, burglar, illegal trade, market instability and inflation has been occur hither to. As a result researcher concludes that the perception of community toward the severity of covid-19 is low and inculcated misunderstanding on it. And covid-19 affects the socioeconomic scene of the people unfortunately. As a result, peoples should aware the pandemic severity and take care to be safe, and government stakeholders should make stabilize market inflation