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Survey of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities, 2015-2016

Lebanon, 2015 - 2016
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World Bank
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Identification

Survey ID Number
LBN_2015-2016_SRHCS_v01_M
Title
Survey of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities, 2015-2016
Country/Economy
Name Country code
Lebanon [lbn]
Abstract
The Syrian crisis has caused one of the largest episodes of forced displacement since World War II and some of the densest refugee-hosting situations in modern history. Syria's immediate neighbors host the bulk of Syrian refugees. The host countries were dealing with impact of inflow of refugees as well as consequences of the Syrian conflict such as disruption on trade and economic activity and growth and spread of the Islamic State. This survey was designed to generate comparable findings on the lives and livelihoods of Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon and Kurdistan, Iraq.

The goals of the survey originally were:
- to assess the socio-economic and living conditions of a representative sample of the Syrian refugee and host community population.
- to understand the implications in terms of social and economic conditions on the host communities.
- to identify strategies to support Syrian refugees and host communities in the immediate and longer term.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Refugee household and individual

Scope

Notes
The survey covered the following topics demographics, employment, access to public services, health, migration, and perceptions.
- Roster
- Dwellings
- Services
- Assets
- Sources of income
- Sources of assistance
- Income shocks
- Prices
- Food security
- Health access
- School access
- Movements
- Current labor screener
- Current unemployment
- Current wage job
- Retro labor screener
- Retro wage job
- Retro HH enterprise job
- Retrospective unemployment
- Norms and relations
- Conflicts
- Assessment of overall situation

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Syrian refugee and host community in Lebanon

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
World Bank

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Conducting a representative survey in Lebanon was especially challenging. The first difficulty was that, as of 2015, there was no recent or reliable sample frame, even for Lebanese households, as the last official population census was conducted in 1932. Typically, such a sample frame consists of the universe of enumeration areas in a country, with associated estimates of population. This meant that we had to construct our own sample frame by selecting a few Small Area Units (SAUs) and then conducting a full listing operation by visiting every household within the selected SAUs and collecting basic demographic and contact information. The second difficulty was that there was no available cartographic division of the country into geographic areas small enough to be the subject of a full listing operation, which could then serve as a sampling frame for the SAUs. Circonscription Foncières (CF) were the finest level of disaggregation available; CFs are generally too large to be listed as some have populations of over 100,000. Finally, there was no available sampling frame for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, which meant that we had to depend on UNHCR data on registered Syrian refugees, combined with the estimates of Lebanese population at the CF level. Given these challenges and time and budgetary constraints, the sample was selected in multiple (four) stages as described Section 2 of "Survey Design and Sampling: A methodology note for the 2015-16 surveys of Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon and Kurdistan, Iraq" document.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2015 2016
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The survey instrument was administered across Lebanon, Jordan, and KRI, with slight modifications depending on the structure of refugee living conditions. The survey includes detailed questions on demographics, employment, access to public services, health, migration, and perceptions.

Access policy

Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_LBN_2015-2016_SRHCS_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Development Economics Data Group DECDG The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
DDI Document version
Version 01 (May 2019)

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