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Socio-Economic Profiling Survey - 2024

Cameroon, 2024
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Reference ID
UNHCR_CMR_2024_PROFILING_v2.1
Producer(s)
UNHCR
Collections
West and Central Africa Socioeconomic Assessments
Metadata
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Created on
Nov 15, 2025
Last modified
Nov 15, 2025
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    UNHCR_CMR_2024_PROFILING_v2.1
    Title

    Socio-Economic Profiling Survey - 2024
    Country
    Name Country code
    Cameroon CMR
    Abstract

    This dataset originates from a socio-economic profiling survey conducted in the West Region, Cameroon, focusing on internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities. It captures key dimensions such as demographics, living conditions, security, employment and livelihoods, housing, documentation, family reunification, social cohesion, civic participation, access to justice, and future intentions of IDPs.
    Kind of Data

    sample survey data[ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Household and individual

    Version

    Version Description

    v2.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymised data.

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope includes:

    • demographics
    • living conditions
    • livelihoods
    • housing
    • social cohesion
    • intentions
    Topics
    Topic
    Health
    Livelihood and Social cohesion
    Health and Nutrition
    Food security
    Protection
    Education
    Basic Needs

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    UNHCR

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The survey used a stratified two-stage cluster sampling design covering five municipalities. The sampling frame was based on BUCREP’s cartographic database, which identifies enumeration areas (EAs) with medium or high concentrations of internally displaced persons (IDPs). These 368 EAs contain about 62,500 households and served as the basis for selecting the sample.
    In the first stage, EAs were selected within each municipality using probability proportional to size, ensuring that larger areas had a higher chance of selection. After updated household listing in each selected EA, the second stage drew a fixed number of households: 10 IDP households and 10 non-IDP households per EA, using simple random sampling within each group.
    For operational simplicity, each municipality was assigned a practical sample of 560 households (280 IDP and 280 non-IDP), resulting in an overall target of 2,800 households across 140 clusters.
    Weighting

    Because municipalities contributed equal sample sizes but represent different population sizes, the survey is not self-weighted. Sampling weights were therefore calculated as the inverse of each household’s overall selection probability and later adjusted for non-response and for misclassification (households listed as IDP or non-IDP but identified differently during the interview), ensuring unbiased and representative estimates.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2024-11-16 2024-12-13
    Mode of data collection
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
    Data Collectors
    Name
    UNHCR

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    UNHCR (2024). Cameroon: Socio-Economic Profiling Survey - 2024. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    Curation team UNHCR microdata@unhcr.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    UNHCR_CMR_2024_PROFILING_v2.1
    Producers
    Name
    UNHCR
    Date of Metadata Production

    2025-11-14
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