Methodology

Respondents
The data for the study was collected through a survey on Google Forms via various social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Linkedin. 385 was the required sample size considering a confidence level of 95%, a 5% margin of error and the fact that 73.38% of the Indian population are above the age of 14. From 1175 responses collected over a span of 13 days from 05-05-2020 to 17-05-2020 during the lockdown phase, only 1094 were taken into consideration after deletion of outliers and those responses that did not provide the necessary consent (44). The large sample size gives the hypothesis test a greater ability to detect small effects, thus having a higher statistical power. The respondents came from various walks of life.