Data in Emergencies Monitoring System - Household Survey 2023
Round 9

Iraq, 2023

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Reference ID

IRQ_2023_DIEM-HS-R9_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

Producer(s)

DIEM Team, Office of Emergencies and Resilience

Collection(s)

FAO - Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalog

Metadata

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Jun 30, 2025

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Identification

Survey ID number

IRQ_2023_DIEM-HS-R9_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

Title

Data in Emergencies Monitoring System - Household Survey 2023

Subtitle

Round 9

Abbreviation or Acronym

DIEM-HS-R9 2023

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Iraq	IRQ

Study type

Agricultural Survey [ag/oth]

Abstract

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a monitoring system in 26 food crisis countries to better understand the impacts of various shocks on agricultural livelihoods, food security and local value chains. The Monitoring System consists of primary data collected from households on a periodic basis (more or less every four months, depending on seasonality).

The FAO launched a Round 9, randomised telephone interviews survey on 26 October 2022 to monitor agricultural livelihoods and food security in the 18 governorates of Iraq. Data collection resumed on 1 December 2022. A total of 2,583 households were interviewed (1,743 non-agricultural households and 840 agricultural households) using a panel list of agricultural households (interviewed in the previous data collection rounds) and the Random Digit Dialing (RDD) approach.

For more information, please go to https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/pages/monitoring

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Households

Scope

Notes

The survey collected information on the following areas:

Household: household information
Income sources, shocks: income changes, shocks experienced by households
Crop production: crops planted, area planted, area harvested, crop production difficulties
Crop marketing: crop sale difficulties, crop sale price
Livestock production: types of livestock present on holding, number of livestock, livestock production difficulties
Livestock marketing: livestock sale, livestock sale difficulties, livestock sale price
Fisheries production: fish activity, comparison of fish production
Fisheries marketing: fish sale, fish sale difficulties, fish sale price
Food security and consumption: food consumption, food utilization, coping strategies
Needs assistance: open questions on the needs for assistance

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National coverage

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
DIEM Team, Office of Emergencies and Resilience	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Data in Emergencies Hub	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	Data processing and analysis

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Abbreviation
European Union	EU
FAO's Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation	SFERA

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

A total of 2,609 households were interviewed, of which 1,632 were non-agricultural households and 977 were agricultural households. The households were selected using a panel list of agricultural households which were interviewed in the previous data collection rounds, and the target was completed using the Random Digit Dialing (RDD) approach.
The sample target of 136 households per governorate was not reached only in Sulaimaniya and Maysan governorates. However, the data collected in these governorates was considered representative at governorate level because the sample size was close to the target, and the survey findings are representative at national level. Quotas could not be applied due to the small size of the agricultural population. To increase the likelihood of capturing this subgroup, a 10% precision level (margin of error) was selected, which allows for a larger sample size.

Weighting

The weighting strategy combines demographic and socioeconomic adjustments to enhance the representativeness of the sample. The weights that were employed were computed as follows:

Base weights (adm1 level): These were calculated to reflect the probability of selection within each governorate. They adjust for differences in sample sizes across regions and ensure proportional representation.
Wealth weights (adm1 level): Access to flush toilets was used as a proxy indicator for household wealth.
Education-level weights (adm0 level): The education level of the household head was used as an additional proxy for socioeconomic status. Due to the absence of baseline data on religious education, respondents reporting this were recoded as having "no education." These weights were calculated at the national level (ADM0), given the lack of reliable subnational data.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

A link to the questionnaire has been provided in the documentations tab.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2023-02-28	2023-03-21

Data Collection Mode

Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]

Data processing

Data Editing

The datasets have been edited and processed for analysis by the Data in Emergencies Hub (DIEM) team at the Office of Emergencies and Resilience, FAO, with some dashboards and visualizations produced. For more information, see https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/pages/countries. STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL (SDC) The dataset was anonymized using Statistical Disclosure methods by the Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Hub team and reviewed by the Office of Chief Statistician at FAO. All direct identifiers have been removed prior to data submission.

Access policy

Confidentiality

Confidentiality declaration text
The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO.

Access conditions

Micro datasets disseminated by FAO shall only be allowed for research and statistical purposes. Any user which requests access working for a commercial company will not be granted access to any micro dataset regardless of their specified purpose. Users requesting access to any datasets must agree to the following minimal conditions:

The micro dataset will only be used for statistical and/or research purposes;
Any results derived from the micro dataset will be used solely for reporting aggregated information, and not for any specific individual entities or data subjects;
The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO;
The micro dataset cannot be re-disseminated by users or shared with anyone other than the individuals that are granted access to the micro dataset by FAO.

Citation requirements

FAO. 2025. Data in Emergencies Monitoring Household Survey - Iraq, Round 10, 2023. data-in-emergencies.fao.org. Dataset downloaded from microdata.fao.org.

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL	Email
DIEM Team - Office of Emergencies and Resilience	Food and Agriculture Organization		Data-in-Emergencies@fao.org

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
DIEM Team, Office of Emergencies and Resilience	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	DIEM-Hub-List@fao.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_IRQ_2023_DIEM-HS-R9_v01_M_v01_A_ESS_FAO