Refugee Social Registry Inclusion Census, 2021

Mauritania, 2021

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Reference ID

MRT_2021_NSR_v01_M

Producer(s)

Mauritania's Social Registry, UNHCR, WFP

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Dec 15, 2022

Last modified

Dec 15, 2022

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Identification

Survey ID number

MRT_2021_NSR_v01_M

Title

Refugee Social Registry Inclusion Census, 2021

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Mauritania	MRT

Study type

Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]

Abstract

For decades, Mauritania has maintained a generous open door policy towards Malians fleeing conflict. The most recent large-scale influx of Malians occurred in 2012, and resulted in the creation of the Mbera camp, which today hosts around 75,000 refugees. Because the large-scale return of Malians is not yet a viable option, Mauritania has committed itself to a policy of inclusion. It thus requested support from the UNHCR-WFP Targeting Hub to facilitate the inclusion of Malian refugees in the national social registry. Accordingly, the two UN agencies assisted Mauritania’s National Social Registry to conduct a socio-economic census to identify the most vulnerable households to target for prioritized assistance. Around 14,000 households were interviewed.

The purpose of the census was to:
- Collect socio-economic information on all refugees in Bassikounou to understand needs at household level
- Categorize refugee households based on their degree of vulnerability to inform programmatic decisions and joint targeting approaches
- Include all refugees in the national Social Registry
- Identify and include the most vulnerable refugees in the national social protection scheme, Tekavoul

Kind of Data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Unit of Analysis

Household and member

Version

Version Description

v2.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymised data.

Scope

Notes

The scope includes:

household and member demographics
dwelling characteristics
employment and livelihood
food consumption

Topics

Topic
Shelter/Other Infrastructure
Livelihood and Social cohesion
Health and Nutrition
Food security

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Mbera refugee camp (98.5%), Bassikounou (0.4%), El Megve (1.1%)

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Mauritania's Social Registry
UNHCR
WFP

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

Questionnaire contained the following sections: household demographics, employment, asset ownership and shelter, food consumption, livelihood coping, expenditure, community participation.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2021-04-27	2021-06-16

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Data Collectors

Name
Mauritania's Social Registry

Access policy

Archive where study is originally stored

United Nations Refugee Agency Microdata Library
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/669
Original Archive Study ID: UNHCR_MRT_2021_NSR_v2.1
Cost: None

Data Access

Citation requirements

Mauritania's Social Registry, UNHCR, WFP (2021). Mauritania: Refugee Social Registry Inclusion Census, 2021. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curation team	UNHCR	microdata@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_MRT_2021_NSR_v01_M

Producers

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

Date of Metadata Production

2022-05-18

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 1 (December 2022). This version is identical to UNHCR DDI ID: UNHCR_MRT_2021_NSR_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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