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Border Monitoring, outflow 2023

Afghanistan, 2023
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Reference ID
AFG_2023_BMo_v01_M
Producer(s)
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
Collection(s)
United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Mar 18, 2025
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    AFG_2023_BMo_v01_M
    Title

    Border Monitoring, outflow 2023
    Abbreviation or Acronym

    BMo 2023
    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    Afghanistan AFG
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
    Abstract
    The situation inside Afghanistan deteriorated in 2021 and had significant consequences for the most vulnerable among the population. Iran and Pakistan, which are neighbours of Afghanistan, also host some 8 million registered Afghan refugees and other Afghans with different statuses. The majority of registered refugees fled Afghanistan over the years, including from as early as 1979.

    UNHCR border monitoring seeks to understand the triggers, intentions and reasons for Afghan cross-border movements, assess access to territory and “the right to seek asylum” as well as the barriers which hinder the movement of people who may need international protection. In 2023, more than 78,000 interviews were conducted with people across six crossing points into Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia from Afghanistan.

    This dataset is the anonymized version of the original data.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Households

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 2.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymised data
    Version Date

    2023-12-15

    Scope

    Notes

    The survey was conducted with one focal point from each household covering the following:

    1. Biodata and current location
    2. Displacement history
    3. Problems faced during displacement
    Topics
    Topic
    Livelihood and Social cohesion
    Education
    Basic Needs
    Domestic Needs/Household Support
    Shelter/Other Infrastructure
    Legal Assistance/Protection

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Border crossing points from Afghanistan into Iran, Pakistan and Central Asia
    Universe

    Asylum-seekers and other border crossers in 2023

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) UN

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Not Applicable

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2023-01-01 2023-12-31
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    UNHCR (2023). Afghanistan: Border Monitoring, outflow 2023. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    Curation team UNHCR microdata@unhcr.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_AFG_2023_BMo_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    UN Refugee Agency UNHCR UN Metadata producer
    Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library
    Date of Metadata Production

    2024-04-05

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Identical to a metadata (UNHCR_AFG_2023_BMo_anon_data_v2.1) published on UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.
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