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