Socio-economic assessment of IDPs and returnees in the five most populated settlements of Afghanistan's Herat Province - 2017

Afghanistan, 2017

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Reference ID

UNHCR_AFG_2017_SEA_Herat_v2.1

Producer(s)

UNHCR

Collections

Asia Pacific IDP Profiling Socioeconomic Assessments

Metadata

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Dec 05, 2019

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Identification

Survey ID number

UNHCR_AFG_2017_SEA_Herat_v2.1

Title

Socio-economic assessment of IDPs and returnees in the five most populated settlements of Afghanistan's Herat Province - 2017

Country

Name	Country code
Afghanistan	AFG

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Series Information

UNHCR conducts socio-economic assessments of persons-of-concern (i.e. refugees, asylum-seekers, IDPs, etc.) in a variety of countries in order to inform and improve its programming with the goal of promoting self-reliance. While these assessments are not fully standardized and are tailored to their specific country context, the quantitative surveys share strong similarities in their design and objectives, and are therefore considered a survey series for the purpose of microdata documentation/archiving.

Abstract

At the end of 2015, Herat Province was among the highest IDP hosting provinces in Afghanistan, accounting for approximately 10% of the country's IDP population. In order to obtain reliable information on the socio-economic conditions of IDPs and returnees in Herat Province, a comprehensive sample survey was carried out among 11,264 households in the 5 most populated IDP/returnee settlements (Shagofan, Jebraiel, Maslakh, Now Abad and Kahdistan) in 2017.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household and individual

Version

Version Description

2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for licensed distribution.

Version Date

2018-12-15

Scope

Notes

The scope of this socio-economic assessment includes:

Identification of the household
Demographic composition of the household
Information about the wider community
Access to services (electricity, water, health, education)
Child education
Economic activity of the main respondent
Consumption expenditure
Skills
Priority needs

Topics

Topic
Livelihood & Social cohesion
Housing, Land and Property
Basic Needs

Keywords

Refugees Asylum seekers Forced displacement Conflict

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

IDP/returnee settlements Shagofan, Jebrael, Maslakh, Now Abad and Kahdistan (all located in Afghanistan's Herat Province).

Universe

All IDPs and returnees living in the five most populated IDP/returnee settlements of Afghanistan's Herat Province, namely Shagofan, Jebrael, Maslakh, Now Abad and Kahdistan.

UNHCR PPG: 3AFGA, 4AFGA

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
UNHCR

Producers

Name
CRDSA

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The survey's objective was to deliver representative data of all IDPs and returnees living in the five most populated IDP/returnee settlements of Afghanistan's Herat Province, namely Shagofan, Jebrael, Maslakh, Now Abad and Kahdistan. The total population of IDPs/returnees in these settlements at the time of the survey was estimated at around 38,700 households.

For this survey a stratified, single-stage (i.e. non-clustered) sample design was applied. The five settlements were considered sampling strata. Within each of these strata, a sample of households was drawn systematically (based on alphabetic sort order) from the "list of inhabitants".

The total sample size was 11,264 IDP/returnee households.

NB: The original data collection also included a small number of households from the neighbouring host community; however, these observations were dropped from the public-release version of the dataset.

Deviations from the Sample Design

None

Response Rate

Information unavailable

Weighting

No weights were aplied during the initial data analysis. However, given that selection probailities differed across sampling strata, the public-release version of the data contains sampling weights calculated ex-post, which data users may wish to apply during further analysis.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

All questionaires are provided in section "external ressources".

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2017	2017

Data Collectors

Name
CRDSA
UNHCR

Data Collection Notes

Data was collected on paper through face-to-face interviews by 150 enumerators and 15 supervisors. Data entry was carried out at a centralized location.

Data processing

Data Editing

The dataset presented here has undergone light checking, cleaning and restructuring (data may still contain errors) as well as anonymization (includes removal of direct identifiers and sensitive variables, and grouping values of select variables). Moreover, households interviewed from host communities were removed.

Data Access

Confidentiality

Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required?	Confidentiality declaration text
yes	No attempt will be made to identify respondents or microdata providers, and no use will be made of the identity of any person, facility or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery would immediately be reported to UNHCR, to allow evaluation of further use, apply further statistical disclosure control methods, impose further restrictions on access, or appropriately re-classify the data. No attempt will be made to create links between datasets provided by UNHCR, or between UNHCR data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations.

Citation requirements

UNHCR (2017). Socio-economic assessment of IDPs and returnees in the five most populated settlements of Afghanistan's Herat Province. Accessed from UNHCR's Microdata Library: http://microdata.unhcr.org

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

UNHCR does not warrant in any way the accuracy of the information and data contained in the datasets and shall not be held liable for any loss caused by reliance on the accuracy or reliability thereof.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Solutions	UNHCR	solutions@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

UNHCR_AFG_2017_SEA_Herat_v1.2

Producers

Name
UNHCR

Date of Metadata Production

2019-07-22

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 1.2 (July 2019)

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