Protection Monitoring of Refugees in Response to COVID-19, 2020

Iraq, 2020

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Reference ID

IRQ_2020_PMC_v01_M

Producer(s)

UNHCR

Collection(s)

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

Metadata

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Dec 15, 2022

Last modified

Dec 15, 2022

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Identification

Survey ID number

IRQ_2020_PMC_v01_M

Title

Protection Monitoring of Refugees in Response to COVID-19, 2020

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Iraq	IRQ

Abstract

As a result of COVID-19 movement restrictions and preventative measures, UNHCR initiated the remote protection monitoring exercise as an alternate modality to conduct targeted and systemized protection monitoring surveys for the refugee and asylum seeker population in Iraq. The survey was designed to provide an overview of how COVID and COVID related measures have affected protection concerns of refugees and asylum seekers over time and the continued impact on their access to rights, services, and coping mechanisms over the course of the year. The exercise was initiated in August 2020, covering all governorates of Iraq and surveying Syrian households and of other nationalities. A total 1,407 HH were interviewed in Round 3 (November-December 2020), complementing 1,605 HH interviewed in Round 2 (October 2020), and 1,653 HH interviewed for Round 1 (August-September 2020).

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household

Version

Version Description

v2.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymised data.

Scope

Notes

The scope includes:

household demographics
information access
impact of Covid measures
services
coping mechanisms

Topics

Topic
Protection
Health
Education
Connectivity

Keywords

COVID

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Whole country

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
UNHCR

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

As of 31 November 2020, 241,682 Syrian refugees (61% urban, 39% camp) and 40,875 refugees of other nationalities resided across Iraq, with over 99% of Syrian refugees located in the Kurdistan Region.

Sample size and demographics were derived from a process of stratification, whereby members of a population are divided into homogeneous subgroups before sampling, thereby facilitating an independent sampling of each sub-group. Accordingly, random sampling was applied for the exercise according to three levels of stratification: (1) governorate, (2) country of origin, and (3) camp and out-of-camp (for Syrian refugees). A random sample was drawn to ensure a 95% confidence level and 10% margin of error.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The questionnaire contained the following sections:
A. Introduction
B. Consent
C. Bio Data
D. Communication with communities
E. Education
F. Discrimination in access and implementation of policies
G. Coping mechanisms
H. Health
I. Mental health and psychosocial support
J. Return Intention
.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2020-08-11	2020-12-16

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]

Data Collectors

Name
UNHCR

Access policy

Archive where study is originally stored

United Nations Refugee Agency Microdata Library
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/774
Original Archive Study ID: UNHCR_IRQ_2020_PM_COVID_v2.1
Cost: None

Data Access

Citation requirements

UNHCR (2020). Iraq: Protection Monitoring of Refugees in Response to COVID-19, 2020. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curation team	UNHCR	microdata@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_IRQ_2020_PMC_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
UNHCR
Development Data Group	World Bank	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2022-09-23

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 1 (December 2022). This version is identical to UNHCR DDI ID: UNHCR_IRQ_2020_PM_COVID_v2.1, except the following edits were made:
-Document ID and Survey ID,

Minor formatting corrections
Specified the archive where study is originally stored

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