Analysis and Refinement of Targeting Mechanisms for Food and Multipurpose Cash Assistance to Central African Republic Refugees - 2016

Cameroon, 2016

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Reference ID

CMR_2016_AUB_v01_M

Producer(s)

Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

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Nov 29, 2022

Last modified

Nov 29, 2022

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Identification

Survey ID number

CMR_2016_AUB_v01_M

Title

Analysis and Refinement of Targeting Mechanisms for Food and Multipurpose Cash Assistance to Central African Republic Refugees - 2016

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Cameroon	CMR

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Abstract

Due to persistent instability in the region, Cameroon hosts refugees and asylum seekers from neighboring countries, mainly from the Central African Republic and Nigeria. In 2015, nearly 259,000 Central African refugees arrived in Cameroon, of whom the vast majority settled in the Northern, Eastern and Adamaoua regions. Within these regions, the study identified 11 subsistence zones, of which the 5 zones with the highest refugee concentration were surveyed, in order to inform UNHCR's Livelihoods Strategy 2017-2020 targeting these refugees and to provide a baseline against which to measure the success of its implementation. The survey was conducted among 2,206 refugee households in November 2016. The household data is supplemented with UNHCRs progress data for the purpose of refining the targeting approach of both WFP and UNHCR.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household and individual

Version

Version Description

Edited, anonymous dataset for licenced distribution.

Version Date

2020-01-11

Scope

Notes

The scope of the quantitative data of this socio-economic assessment includes:

Identification of the household
Household members (demographic characteristics, education, economic activity)
Access to services
Health
Child education and health
Food and other assistance
Agricultural production
Sources of income
Asset ownership
Dwelling/housing characteristics
Food consumption groups
Expenditure
Credit/debt
Coping strategies
Social participation
Intentions of return

Topics

Topic
Livelihood & Social cohesion

Keywords

Refugees Asylum seekers Forced displacement Conflict

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Areas hosting Central African refugees in 5 subsistence zones under study within Cameroon's Adamanou, Eastern and Northern regions. This included 7 refugee camps (Gado-Badzere, Lolo, Bile, Timangolo, Borgop, Ngam and Ngarisingo) as well as various non-camp sites.

Universe

All Central African refugee households residing in the 5 subsistence zones under study within Cameroon's Adamanou, Eastern and Northern regions.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)	UN

Producers

Name
IFORD

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The survey's objective was to deliver representative data on all refugees living in 5 subsistence zones under study within the Adamanou, Eastern and Northern regions of Cameroon. These subsistence zones were defined along characteristics of geography, production patterns, market access, etc. - a total of 11 such zones were identified within the three regions, and the 5 zones with the highest refugee concentration were retained for the survey. The total Central African refugee population in Cameroon at the time of the survey was estimated at around 52,000 households; the total in the three regions at around 46,800 households; the total in the five selected subsistence zones within the three regions at around 26,000 households.The survey was designed to be representative of the latter 26,000. The refugees within the five zones were located in 7 refugee camps and 11 non-camp sites.

For this survey a stratified, single-stage (i.e. non-clustered) sample design was applied. The camps and non-camp sites were considered sampling strata. Within each of these 18 strata, a systematic sample of households was drawn from UNHCR's registration list, this enabled the later addition of data from UNHCER registration database for the households included in the survey.

The total sample size was 2,206 refugee 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.

Response Rate

Overall response rate was 92.3%

Weighting

Weights are post calculated based on the information from the UNHCRs registration database.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The SEA questionaires are provided in section "external ressources".

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2016-11-19	2016-11-30

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Name	Affiliation
Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees	UN

Data Collection Notes

Data was collected on paper through face-to-face interviews.

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).

Data Access

Confidentiality

Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required?	Confidentiality declaration text
yes	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 (2016). Socio-economic assessement of Central African refugees in Cameroon's Adamanou, Eastern and Northern regions 2016. UNHCR Microdata Library; https://microdata.unhcr.org

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

UNHCR does not warrant in any way the accuracy of the information and data contained in the datasets and shall not be held liable for any loss caused by reliance on the accuracy or reliability thereof.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Solutions	UNHCR	solutions@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_CMR_2016_AUB_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
UN Refugee Agency	UN	Collection and documentation of records
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2022-11-29

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (November 2022): This metadata was downloaded from the UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home) and it is identical to UNHCR version (UNHCR-CMR-2016-AUB-2.1). The following two metadata fields were edited - Document ID and Survey ID.

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