Both quantitative and qualitative findings concur that the pandemic had a significant negative socioeconomic impact on many households through a complex and overlapping interplay of proximate and pre-existing challenges. The extent and severity of the pandemic’s negative impacts were by and large determined by a household’s labour market strategies. Jobs and livelihoods in the informal sector were at a higher risk of being affected by the pandemic. The economic crisis led to more severe and widespread consequences among households.