Iowa State University is conducting a survey to see the impact COVID-19 has had in rural Iowa communities. | Google Maps
Iowa State University is conducting a survey to see the impact COVID-19 has had in rural Iowa communities. | Google Maps
Residents in four communities of northwest counties in Iowa will be receiving surveys through mail asking how COVID-19 has impacted their lives.
The surveys will be sent out within the next few weeks with anticipation for early September for the data to be revealed. The survey is being conducted by Iowa State University and the University of Iowa researchers due to the lack of discussion and focus on rural communities in Iowa.
“How has isolation, job losses and the economic impacts of the pandemic, coupled with a long-term decline in the farm economy the last three, four, five years, how is that really impacting rural America?” ISU sociology professor David Peters told KIWA Radio.
The communities selected for these surveys are Hartley in O’Brien County, Sibley in Osceola County, George in Lyon County, and Hospers in Sioux Counties. For a full list of communities that were selected for this survey, click here.
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