Monitoring Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Refugees in Uganda : Results from the High-Frequency Phone Survey, First Round (October-November 2020)
The High-Frequency Phone Survey for refugees in Uganda (URHFPS) tracks the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on refugees. The World Bank (WB) in collaboration with the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refu...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/682171613766616044/Monitoring-Social-and-Economic-Impacts-of-COVID-19-on-Refugees-in-Uganda-Results-from-the-High-Frequency-Phone-Survey-First-Round http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35337 |
| Summary: | The High-Frequency Phone Survey for
refugees in Uganda (URHFPS) tracks the socioeconomic impacts
of COVID-19 on refugees. The World Bank (WB) in
collaboration with the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)
and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR)
launched and conducted the URHFPS. The URHFPS tracks the
impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for a period of
three months. Data collection for the first round of URHFPS
took place between October 22 – November 25, 2020. This
brief discusses results from the first round of the URHFPS.
Where possible and appropriate, results for refugees are
compared to nationals by using the national High-Frequency
Phone Survey on COVID-19 (HFPS). The survey sample includes
respondents with active phone numbers that were selected
randomly from the Profile Global Registration System
(ProGres) of UNHCR, and the refugee household survey carried
out by UBOS and the World Bank in 2018. The targeted sample
includes 2,100 households and is representative at seven
strata constructed as a combination of regions and different
countries of origin: Kampala-Somalia, Kampala-other
(Burundi, DRC, South Sudan), South West-Burundi
(SW-Burundi), South West-DRC (SW-DRC), South West-South
Sudan (SW-South Sudan), South West-Somalia (SW-Somalia), and
West Nile-South Sudan (WN-South Sudan). In terms of
population size, the largest strata are South West-DRC and
West Nile-South Sudan. Both strata account for more than 85
percent of refugees in Uganda in 2020. The realized sample
after the first round was 2,010 households. In order to
reduce the bias related to only interviewing households with
phone numbers and non-response, the data from the 2018
representative refugee household survey was used to produce
and calibrate the weights for the phone survey. |
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