Burundian Refugee Household Assessment in DRC Camps, January 2021

January 2021 survey of 7,873 Burundian refugee households in the Lusenda and Mulongwe camps in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, conducted by UNHCR and WFP. The quantitative assessment was supplemented by qualitative data from eight focus group discussions in February 2021. This dataset is an anonymized sample stratified by camp and survey type, with survey weights provided.

Use Cases

• Assessing refugee household vulnerability based on the survey's core and detailed interview structure.
• Evaluating targeting strategies for food and protection assistance based on the assessment's stated objective.
• Analyzing demographic or needs data stratified by camp (Lusenda or Mulongwe) and survey type (Ciblage or Exhaustive).
• Applying survey weights for population-level inference based on the provided `survey_weight` variable.

Strengths

• Covers 7,873 households, providing a substantial sample size.
• Includes both a core survey for all households and a detailed interview for a 7% random subsample.
• Dataset includes survey weights (`survey_weight`) for analytical representativeness.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is an anonymized sample, not the full original dataset.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Household survey and focus group discussions.

Time Range

January 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 23 14:22:55.046740; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lusenda and Mulongwe refugee camps, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.