## 4 Results
### Economic and Working Impact  
**Question I3.1. :** Indicates your personal working category in January 2020, July 2020 and your forecasting for January 2021 (\"Indica la teva categoria laboral a gener i juliol de 2020 i quina creus que sera la teva categoria laboral al gener de 2021\")  
Responded by the entire sample. Some conclusions are visible in Figure 22, the working Category Frequencies. * The number of people who do not work and receive no benefits raises a 50%
* The n. of people who do not work and receive some benefit raises by 17.6%
* The number of people who have no job or occupation increases by 11%  
**Question I3.2. and I3.3. :** Indicates your personal working situation in January 2020, July 2020 and your forecasting for January 2021 (\"Indica la teva situacio laboral a gener i juliol de 2020 i quina creus que sera la teva situacio laboral al gener de 2021\") See Working situation frecuencies in Figure 23.  
These two questions provide different modalities for the working situation:  
* The number of people who have been licensed (Acomiadat) or folded (Plegat) increases by 78.04%. * The number of people who reduced their working hours (Reduc  
Figure 20: (**a**) Histogram of Edat; (**b**) Pie chart of Gender. From similar tables made of question L3.2. (1. Cindefinit (Permanent contract), 2. CtempActiu (fixed term contract), 3. TreballPerCTemp (intermittent temporal contracts), 4. TeballNregul (irregular working activity), 5. ERTO (temporal regulation process), 6. RecentCtemp (recent temporal contract iniicated), 7. TrobaFeinaFixa (Fix work found) it was found that:  
* The number of people who had a business and stopped working during the lockdown or went into bankrupt increased by 110%
* The number of people with non-precarious working conditions (permanent or fixed-term contracts) decreased by 41.62%. * The 51.25% of people without a job are afraid of not working by January 2021 (the most mentioned reasons are that many companies closed because of COVID19, after a certain age, possibilities to be contracted again decrease, for certain sectors, the people is afraid to be infected by the employee and prefer not to contract new workers). Regarding Economic Situation  
**Question E1:** Economic situation at January 2020 and July, and forecast for January 2021 (\"Situacio economica a generi juliol de 2020 i previsio per gener de 2021\") See multiple barplot in Figure 10, grid of Pie charts in Figure 11 and proportions in Figure 24 which show question. **Question E2. :** Did you need to submit for some of the special supports to receive funds to mitigate the problematic created by COVID-19? (\"Has necessitat acollir-te a algun dels ajust especials que s'han posat en marxa per mitigar la problematica per la COVID-19?\"). * The number of people with economic problems increases a 23.34% (this accounting for those with difficulties to resist the entire month, those with new debts by the end of the month and those that require external economic help to go ahead)  
Figure 22: L3.1 Working Category Frequencies. Figure 23: L3.3. Working Situation Frequencies. * A 42.8% of them is convinced that they will have economic scarcity by January 2021
* A 62.20% of respondents had some Social Services need
* A 46.1% needed support for food (from them a 64.51% searched it into the BASS)
* A 25.00% needed support to pay the rent of the house (and 51.85% of them searched for it into the BASS)
* A 11.8% asked for Renda minima garantida (minimum vital rent) and 51.3% of them searched for it in Catalan government
* A 15.7% needed psychologic support, and 51.3% of them searched it into the BASS
* A 51.8% needed a support that implied some economic benefit. Unfortunately, a 70.37% of them did not received the payment by 1 st July 2020. Some of them couldn't complete the electronic submission by lack of digital skills, some of them (14.41%) were out of the restrictive eligibility criteria. See in Figure 25 Cross table of E2.AjutsCOVID19 per levels.