Burkina Faso Socioeconomic and Protection Survey of IDPs and Host Communities, 2024

Burkina Faso's 2024 survey provides a large-scale quantitative assessment of living conditions, vulnerabilities, and protection dynamics among displaced populations and host households. Conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD) in partnership with UNHCR, it covers six regions affected by forced displacement. The study is based on a probabilistic sample of over 2,000 households.

Use Cases

• Analyze poverty and food security conditions among internally displaced persons based on socioeconomic indicators.
• Assess protection risks and vulnerabilities intersecting with displacement based on protection dynamics.
• Target humanitarian assistance and resilience-building policies based on household-level survey findings.
• Compare living conditions and access to resources between displaced populations and host communities.

Strengths

• Sample size of over 2,000 households provides a substantial quantitative basis.
• Covers six regions affected by forced displacement in Burkina Faso.
• Combines socioeconomic and protection information for multidimensional analysis.
• Conducted by the authoritative National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD) in partnership with UNHCR.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the six surveyed regions.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Probabilistic sample survey conducted by INSD.

Time Range

2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-11 13:30:02.249498; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Six regions in Burkina Faso affected by forced displacement.