Socio-Economic Survey of Refugees in Ethiopia (SESRE) 2023

Ethiopia, 2022 - 2023

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Reference ID

ETH_2022_SESRE_v02_M

Producer(s)

Christina Wieser

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

May 29, 2024

Last modified

Sep 27, 2024

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Identification

Survey ID number

ETH_2022_SESRE_v02_M

Title

Socio-Economic Survey of Refugees in Ethiopia (SESRE) 2023

Abbreviation or Acronym

ETH SESRE 2023

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Ethiopia	ETH

Abstract

Ethiopia hosts over 900,000 refugees, making it the sixth-largest refugee population in the world and the second-largest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most refugees are from South Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan, which have experienced some combination of long-running domestic conflict, border disputes with Ethiopia, recurrent drought, and other climate shocks. The national household survey of Ethiopia – Household Welfare Statistics Survey (HoWStat) – currently excludes displaced populations from its sample of households. We have little information on their socioeconomic outcomes and poverty levels compared to Ethiopians. The Socio-Economic Survey of Refugees (SESRE) aims at solving two existing problems: (i) gaps in data on the socioeconomic dimensions of refugees and (ii) gaps in analytical studies presenting the socioeconomic outcomes of refugees and hosts. Moreover, the SESRE serves as a feasibility study to include refugees in HoWStat’s data collection effort, including sampling, data collection, and analysis.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household and individual

Version

Version Description

Edited data, anonymized and packaged for public distribution.

Version Notes

v02 - Edited wrongly encoded variable and value labels.
wq5307 labeled 'In the dry season, is your household's main source of drinking water different than your main source in the rainy season?'
wq5312 labeled 'With in the last 12 months period, how often did the household faced shortage of drinking water?'
wq5312 has updated value labels: 1 Never faced at all; 2 Occasionally; 3 Sometimes; 4 Most of the time;5 Frequently/always
var wq5313 labeled 'Do you do anything to the water to make it safe to drink?'

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The SESRE covers all current major refugee camps: Eritreans, South Sudanese, and Somalis, as well as the out-of-camp refugees in Addis Ababa. In addition, the survey covers the respective host communities around the camps, including the host communities of Addis Ababa. Due to the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia between 2020 and 2022, Eritrean refugees living in camps in Tigray could not be included in this survey.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Christina Wieser	The World Bank

Producers

Name	Affiliation
Wondimagegn Mesfin Tesfaye	The World Bank

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Abbreviation
The World Bank / UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement	JDC

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sample for this survey was 3,456 households from eight domains, with data was collected from 3,452 households. There are three domains for the three largest in-camp refugee groups—Eritreans, Somalis, and South Sudanese—three for host communities of these major refugee groups, and one for refugees and one for host communities in Addis Ababa. In all categories, a stratified, two-stage cluster sample design technique was used to select EAs and 12 households per EA, whereby the EAs were considered a Primary Sampling Unit and the households as the Secondary Sampling Unit. The SESRE is designed to estimate demographic, socioeconomic, welfare, and refugee-specific indicators of the eight domains.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The questionnaire contains modules on: Sociodemographic, Jobs and Livelihood, Welfare and Equity, Aspirations, Social Cohesion, and Markets and Opportunities. The questionnaire is available for download.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2022-11	2023-01

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Depositor information

Depositor

Name
Poverty Reduction and Policy Management Network (PREM)

Data Access

Access authority

Name
Christina Wieser

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

Example:
Christina Wieser (The World Bank). Ethiopia - Socio-Economic Survey of Refugees in Ethiopia (SESRE) 2023 (ETH SESRE 2023). Ref: ETH_2022_SESRE_v02_M. Downloaded from [uri] on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Email
Christina Wieser	cwieser@worldbank.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ETH_2022_SESRE_v02_M_WB

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Development Data Group	DECDG	World Bank	Documentation of the study

Date of Metadata Production

2024-09-27

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 02 (2024-09-27)
Edited wrongly encoded variable and value labels

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