On RFD-TV: Tim Meyer

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Rural Poll worked with the Nebraska Business Development Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to measures how COVID-19 experiences differed between rural and urban Nebraska residents. Tim Meyers, associate professor of practice in Agricultural Economics talks live with RFD-TV Sept. 28, 2021.

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[00:00:00.750]Well, good morning once again, thanks for staying with us
[00:00:02.700]right here on the Market Day Report. While for 26 years the
[00:00:05.910]University of Nebraska-Lincoln has polled rural residents on
[00:00:09.210]important issues. This year they issued a companion poll to
[00:00:12.600]get a sense of how urban and rural experiences differ on the
[00:00:16.470]impact of COVID-19. Associate Professor of Practice in Ag
[00:00:20.250]Economics. Tim Meyer joins us now with the latest on that
[00:00:23.550]poll. And thank you, Tim, for taking the time to chat with
[00:00:26.220]us and share your insights. Now, according to your research,
[00:00:29.880]how did the pandemic affect Nebraskans?
[00:00:33.840]Well, there were a wide variety of impacts and primary
[00:00:37.530]things that you would imagine whether it's sickness or
[00:00:40.440]quarantine, having to work from home. But the biggest impact
[00:00:45.090]was social. I mean, that was the one thing that the majority
[00:00:48.480]of Nebraskans noted was that their social lives were really
[00:00:52.170]challenged. And, you know, whether it's policy or rules or
[00:00:57.570]different health concerns within families, those challenges
[00:01:01.170]were real, and they're still lasting for sure.
[00:01:04.290]So how did rural and urban Nebraskans experience COVID-19
[00:01:08.580]differently?
[00:01:11.040]You know, that's an interesting question, because the rural
[00:01:13.590]poll exists because Nebraska is a state where we have this
[00:01:18.420]major urban area, that's Lincoln and Omaha, and then the
[00:01:22.530]rest of the state. But our research really showed that they
[00:01:26.340]were similar. You know, statistically, there was almost no
[00:01:30.420]difference in most of our metrics. But two things came up.
[00:01:34.080]One was that the rural Nebraskans were able to deal with the
[00:01:37.350]social difficulties easier, just they have more space, more
[00:01:40.830]space and fewer people. On the other hand, urban Nebraskans
[00:01:45.900]had more work from home opportunities. They just had more
[00:01:49.470]resources in that regard. And that actually looks like
[00:01:52.620]that's going to be a change going forward, where the rural
[00:01:55.470]Nebraskans typically will go back to whatever their normal
[00:01:59.790]day to day work life was. Working at home is just not going
[00:02:04.260]to be as easy if you're a rural Nebraska than if you're in
[00:02:07.860]the city,
[00:02:09.090]Now why is it important to understand the similarities and
[00:02:12.180]also the differences between these kinds of communities?
[00:02:16.160]So we do the rural poll, for the reasons that I mentioned
[00:02:20.570]earlier to give rural Nebraskans a voice and really to
[00:02:23.720]provide our policymakers information about what's going on,
[00:02:28.520]and the majority of our state geographically but the
[00:02:31.400]minority when it comes to the population. But I think the
[00:02:34.640]cool thing about the poll this year was we worked with the
[00:02:37.070]Metropolitan poll, what we found out is that we're really
[00:02:40.850]alike the way that we dealt with the pandemic, our
[00:02:44.300]resiliency, our flexibility, how we face these challenges as
[00:02:48.110]Nebraskans mean, really pretty much the same. And so I think
[00:02:54.350]that's, you know, we conduct the poll in the most apolitical
[00:02:57.560]way possible. And when people are answering our questions,
[00:03:00.410]we find out that Nebraskans are Nebraskans, and I enjoyed
[00:03:03.590]that result.
[00:03:04.520]A job to get done and folks buckled down to do it. Well
[00:03:06.770]thank you very much for your insight. You can go online to
[00:03:09.980]ruralpoll.unl.edu for more information. Again, talking with
[00:03:13.310]UNL associate professor of practice in ag economics, Tim
[00:03:16.310]Meyer. Tim, thank you very much for joining us today.

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