Monitoring the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Djiboutian and Refugee Households in Djibouti : Results from the Third Wave of Survey
The third round of data collection on monitoring of socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in Djibouti followed urban national households based on two previous waves of data collection as well as a replacement sub-sample. Thi...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/219231622134870164/Monitoring-the-Socio-Economic-Impacts-of-COVID-19-on-Djiboutian-and-Refugee-Households-in-Djibouti-Results-from-the-Third-Wave-of-Survey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35702 |
| Summary: | The third round of data collection on
monitoring of socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19
(coronavirus) pandemic in Djibouti followed urban national
households based on two previous waves of data collection as
well as a replacement sub-sample. This round also includes a
refugee sub-sample, covering urban refugees and those based
in refugee villages. Economic recovery in Djibouti continues
to follow a positive trend. Breadwinners from Djiboutian
households continue to come back to work. Only 4 percent of
those working before the pandemic were not working at the
time of the survey. Even when counting those who were not
working before the pandemic, 83 percent of all national
households' breadwinners are now working – continuing
strong trends from waves 1 and 2. Nationals with waged work
grew from 22 to 76 percent in that time, and only 9 percent
of those currently working report working less than usual.
Djiboutian workers are also working more – but for less pay.
Only one in five Djiboutian breadwinners are working less
than they were before the pandemic or not at all. However,
half of those who worked less than usual received no pay in
wave 3 – 53 percent up from 35 percent in wave 2, and fewer
received partial payment compared to the previous waves.
Poor households were more likely to have received no pay for
work performed. Refugees based in refugee villages face
worse employment conditions than those living in urban areas
or urban nationals. They were less likely to be employed
prior to COVID-19, more likely to lose their job during
pandemic, and do not exhibit similar signs of recovery.
Around 68 percent of urban refugee breadwinners are
currently working and 7 percent who worked before the
pandemic are currently not working. In comparison, less than
half (49 percent) of refugee breadwinners based in refugee
villages are currently working, and 16 percent are no longer
working relative to pre-COVID-19. A quarter of urban
refugees and around 35 percent of refugees in refugee
villages worked neither now nor before the pandemic, and
nearly a third (29 percent) of the latter who are working
report working less than usual. In addition, refugee
breadwinners’ concentration in the informal sector (87
percent) highlights the precarity of their livelihood. |
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