Welfare Monitoring Survey Round V, 2026

Monitoring Food Security, Employment, Housing, Access to Market, and Crop and Livestock Production

The fifth round of the Sudan Welfare Monitoring Survey draws on a rigorous, probability-based sample of Sudanese adults (aged 18 and above) with mobile phone access, achieving nationwide coverage across all 18 states. Crucially, it also captures the voices of adult refugees — a population often left out of large-scale surveys — with a dedicated sample concentrated primarily in camp settings.
Sudanese respondents were selected through a one-stage random sampling process from a frame of 45,000 phone numbers provided by the implementation partner, further enriched by approximately 1,000 numbers gathered through household listings and focus group discussions. For the refugee population, a purpose-built sampling frame was constructed from updated household listings in major camps across Kassala and White Nile states, supplemented by random digit dialing (RDD) to achieve the required sample size. Refugee respondents were then drawn through the same one-stage random selection process.
To maximize response rates and minimize data gaps, the implementation partner made up to seven contact attempts per number when initial calls went unanswered or respondents were unavailable. In regions with limited or unstable network connectivity — particularly Darfur and Kordofan — the survey team deployed a robust random walk sampling technique, ensuring that even the most hard-to-reach communities were represented in the data.