Rapid Household Assessments 2024
July - September

Afghanistan, 2024

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Reference ID

AFG_2024_RHAF-Q3_v01_M

Producer(s)

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

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Nov 11, 2025

Last modified

Nov 11, 2025

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Identification

Survey ID number

AFG_2024_RHAF-Q3_v01_M

Title

Rapid Household Assessments 2024

Subtitle

July - September

Abbreviation or Acronym

RHAF-Q3 2024

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Afghanistan	AFG

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Abstract

Following the change in authority in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 and the resulting declaration of a Level 3 emergency, UNHCR introduced a rapid assessment methodology to quickly assess humanitarian and protection needs throughout the country as part of scale-up by UNHCR to respond to the unfolding crisis - an effort that continued throughout 2024. The primary focus of the assessments were IDPs and IDP returnees who account for the majority of the households interviewed in these assessments. Nonetheless, as UNHCR takes a whole-of-community approach in its assistance programme, vulnerable host community members were also assessed, alongside a small number of refugee returnees, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as deported and spontaneous returnees under an area-based approach. The Rapid Household Assessments (RHAF) covers all 34 provinces.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Households

Version

Version Description

Version 2.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymised data.

Version Date

2024-12-31

Scope

Notes

The survey assesses needs of the interviewed across mutliple sectors, including:

Expenses and income
Protection issues
Shelter

Topics

Topic
Protection
Shelter/Other Infrastructure
Basic Needs
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National

Universe

Persons of Concern in Afghanistan

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)	UN

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

This data analysis focuses on findings received from the population reached and does not make inferences about the total population. Though the sampling does not produce representative findings, the report still helps to provide information on the challenges IDPs and IDP returnees, in particular, face in Afghanistan

Weighting

There was no sampling strategy for this data collection exercise. For the purpose of anonymization, weight based on the province the responded is located in were assigned where the sample frame according to UNHCR figures.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2024-07-01	2024-09-30

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Name
UNHCR, AABRR,ACHRO,ACTED,AHDA,APAA,ARAA,BEST,CHA,DRC,HEWAD,HRDA,ORD,OHW,WADAN,WASSA,WAW,WSTA,AKAH

Access policy

Citation requirements

UNHCR (2024). Afghanistan: Rapid Household Assessments 2024 July - September. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curation team	UNHCR	microdata@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_AFG_2024_RHAF-Q3_v01_M

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
UN Refugee Agency	UNHCR	UN
Development Data Group	DECDG	World Bank Group	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2025-03-18

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Identical to a metadata (UNHCR_AFG_2024_Q3_RHAF_anon_data_v2.1) published on UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.

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