UNHCR Protection Monitoring of Refugees in Iraq During COVID-19, 2020

UNHCR conducted three rounds of remote protection monitoring surveys in 2020, interviewing a total of 4,665 refugee and asylum-seeker households across all governorates of Iraq. The exercise was initiated in August 2020 to assess how COVID-19 and related measures affected protection concerns, access to rights, services, and coping mechanisms over time. Data is available for Round 1 (1,653 households), Round 2 (1,605 households), and Round 3 (1,407 households).

Use Cases

• Analyze changes in protection concerns over time based on the three survey rounds conducted in 2020.
• Assess the impact of COVID-19 measures on access to rights and services for refugees and asylum seekers.
• Evaluate household coping mechanisms in response to the pandemic described in the monitoring exercise.
• Compare survey results across different governorates in Iraq mentioned in the geographic coverage.

Strengths

• Data covers three distinct temporal rounds (August-December 2020), allowing for longitudinal analysis.
• Surveys were conducted across all governorates of Iraq, providing national geographic coverage.
• The dataset includes 4,665 household interviews, with specific counts provided for each round.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown for the aggregated dataset, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is available only in PDF and WEB APP formats, which may hinder direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Remote protection monitoring surveys conducted via an alternate modality due to COVID-19 movement restrictions.

Time Range

August to December 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23 14:19:40.049784; freshness should be verified.

Geography

All governorates of Iraq