Household and respondent characteristics
Household type:
Married couple	Respondent is married (omitted)
Single female	Respondent is female and not married
Single male	Respondent is male and not married
Number of children <18	Number of people under 18 years old currently living in the household
R age	2020 minus respondent’s year of birth
R is working female	Respondent is female and did work for pay or profit in the last 7 days
Respondent education:	R’s educational attainment is:
Below HS	Less than high school or some high school (omitted)
HS degree or GED	High school graduate or equivalent (e.g., GED)
Some college or AA degree	Some college but degree not received or in progress, or Associates degree
4-year college	Bachelors’ degree or graduate degree
R race/ethnicity:	R self identifies as:
White non-Hispanic	White alone, not of Hispanic origin (omitted)
Black non-Hispanic	Black alone, not of Hispanic origin
Hispanic	Of Hispanic origin
Asian	Asian alone, not of Hispanic origin
Other	Other race (American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Samoan, other Pacific Islander) or more than one race, not of Hispanic origin
Other Covid-19 household shocks:
Lost employment income	Someone in the household experienced a loss of employment income since March 13, 2020
Food insufficiency	R says in the past 7 days, the household’s amount of food was “sometimes” or “often insufficient”
Rent/mortgage late last month	Last month’s rent or mortgage was not paid on time
Not at work due to Covid-19 illness	R was not at work in the past 7 days due to being sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who was
Education measures
School delivery mode:	R indicates that Covid-19 affected how children in the HH get education as follows:
Canceled	school was canceled; no distance learning via internet, schoolwork distributed on paper, or some other means; and no live teacher hours
Online only	distance learning took place online
Online+paper or other	distance learning took place online and on paper, online and via other means, or via paper or other means only
Technology access problems	R says that either a computer or the internet, or both, is sometimes, rarely or never available for children’s educational purposes (versus usually or always)
Teachers hours	Number of hours the student had live contact with a teacher by video or phone in the past 7 days
Parent hours	Number of hours spent by all household members on all teaching activities with children in the household in the past 7 days
Children’s independent learning hours	Number of hours that student(s) spent doing learning activities on their own in the past 7 days, excluding time spent with teachers or other household members
Time and geography	(Results not shown)
Week	=1 for survey weeks 1–10; 0 otherwise
Major metropolitan area	=1 if R lives in one of 15 major metropolitan areas; 0 otherwise
State	=1 if respondent lives in given state; 0 otherwise