South Sudanese Refugee Household Assessment in DRC Sites, March 2021

Between February and March 2021, UNHCR and WFP jointly assessed 8,630 refugee households from South Sudan in the Biringi, Bele, and Meri sites of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The assessment aimed to update knowledge on humanitarian needs to inform program decisions and targeting strategies. This dataset is an anonymized 20% stratified random sample of the original survey data.

Use Cases

• Modeling vulnerability levels for targeted assistance based on the assessment's focus.
• Analyzing household needs across different sites (Biringi, Bele, Meri) mentioned in the description.
• Informing programmatic decisions for food security, shelter, and health interventions.
• Weighting survey results for population-level estimates using the provided `survey_weight` variable.

Strengths

• Covers 8,630 households, representing a census of all refugee households in the three sites.
• Data collection was a joint effort by two major UN agencies, UNHCR and WFP.
• Sample is stratified by site and includes survey weights for representativeness.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the provided sample is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific sites and 2021 timeframe.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Joint assessment involving interviews with all refugee households in the specified sites.

Time Range

February-March 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23 14:23:00.159095; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Biringi (Ituri province), Bele and Meri (Haut Uélé province), Democratic Republic of the Congo