High Frequency Phone Survey - Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and Returnees Sample 2020 Iraq, 2020 - 2021
- URL
- https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/4076
- Description
- Starting in August 2020, the World Bank in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP)began conducting a monthly phone survey to collect socioeconomic microdata to assess howIraqis had fared during the COVID-19 pandemic on a nationally representative sample. With thefinancial support from the World Bank – UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement, thesurvey for October 2020 through January 2021 rounds extended the sample size in the North andKurdistan regions to include separate strata for vulnerable Iraqis who had been displaced due tothe ISIL conflict. The short and repeated household phone-survey collected information on keyindicators such as employment, food insecurity, subjective wellbeing and access to market,healthcare, and education to identify the most vulnerable groups and assess their needs.The objective of the Iraq High Frequency Phone Survey 2020/21 is to monitor the impact of COVID-19 and the economic downturn on Iraqi individuals and households, and consequently better inform government mitigation policies – in the short- and medium-run. The short and repeated household phone-survey collected information on key indicators such as employment, food insecurity, subjective wellbeing and access to market, healthcare, and education to identify the most vulnerable groups and assess their needs. The phone survey was implemented on a monthly basis to monitor changes over time.The Iraq 2020/21 HFPS-IDP covered the following topics:
- Demographic
- Employment
- Entrepreneurial/business activities
- Food consumption
- Reduced coping strategy index
- Access to food and market
- Transfers
- Health status and access to health services
- COVID-19 TEST and VACCINE (only in January round)
- Education/ distance learning
- Household expenses (only in January round)Dates of Data CollectionStart End Cycle 2020-10-01 2020-10-30 1 2020-11-01 2020-11-30 2 2020-12-01 2020-12-30 3 2021-01-01 2021-01-30 4 While the IDP sample covers the governorates in the North and the Kurdistan Regions, the Returnee sample covers the governorates in the North region. - Format
- Series - ongoing
- Country
- Iraq
- Title
- High Frequency Phone Survey - Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and Returnees Sample 2020 Iraq, 2020 - 2021
- Format
- Series - ongoing