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"Pandemic and Beyond: Naviga ng the New Normal" E - Book Year 2020

Methodology

“An Empirical study on the Impact of COVID-19 on Lifestyle of Indians during a
Lockdown period in India” is a research work based on the secondary and primary
database. The main survey was across India in the months of April 2020. For this
study, researcher has selected 273 respondents from 22 states & UT and 82 cities of
India. The data has been collected through structured questionnaire containing 28
questions including several sub questions.

Researcher has attempted to analysis the current situation occurred due to outbreak of
COVID-19 epidemic in India and worldwide and the impact on Lifestyle of Indians
during a Lockdown period in India through secondary database collected from the
various sources such as newspaper, survey reports, articles, research papers and
other mentioned below in the study. With this, researcher has also tried to analyse
current lifestyle during the outbreak of Covid-19 and Implementation of Lockdown and
assessed the psychological pattern of consumption during the period of Lockdown.
This study is limited only to Indian citizen and their daily routine life during the
lockdown period starting from March 25 to April 30 in the year 2020.

Data Analysis

The researcher had circulated the questionnaire through online sources and in
response to this, researcher was able to collect 273 responses across the nation. This
study in covering respondents from 22 states & UT and 82 cities of India, out of which
the major responses were observed from state of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi,
Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka(Table 1)

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