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Socio-Economic Assessment of IDPS and Returnees in the Five Most Populated Settlements of Afghanistan's Herat Province 2017

Afghanistan, 2017
United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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Identification

Survey ID Number
AFG_2017_SEA-HER_v01_M
Title
Socio-Economic Assessment of IDPS and Returnees in the Five Most Populated Settlements of Afghanistan's Herat Province 2017
Country/Economy
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
Keyword
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
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (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 applied during the initial data analysis. However, given that selection probabilities 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.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2017 2017
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
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 Collectors
Name
CRDSA
UNHCR

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
All questionnaires are provided in the "external resources" section.

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.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email
Solutions UNHCR solutions@unhcr.org
Confidentiality
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. UNHCR's Microdata Library: http://microdata.unhcr.org
Archive where study is originally stored
United Nations Refugee Agency Microdata Library
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/184
Original Archive Study ID: UNHCR-AFG-2017-SEA-Herat-1.2
Cost: None

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_AFG_2017_SEA-HER_v01_M
Producers
Name
UNHCR
Date of Metadata Production
2021-05-14
DDI Document version
Version 1 (May 2021). This version is identical to UNHCR DDI ID: UNHCR-AFG-2017-SEA-Herat-1.2, except the following edits were made:
- Minor spelling, grammatical, and formatting corrections
- Specified the archive where study is originally stored

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