Monitoring the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on refugee households in Djibouti

The team acknowledges the efforts of the team of the National Institute of Statistics of Djibouti (INSTAD) in undertaking the data collection. [...] Almost one year after the implementation of the first round of the COVID-19 survey on the refugee population in Djibouti, the second wave was fielded between November and December 2021 to provide a snapshot of how this population has fared during COVID-19.1 Seven themes are addressed during this wave to better understand the short to medium-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis: economic activities,. [...] THE PHONE The fourth wave of data collection on monitoring of socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the refugee population (second one with the refugee sample) was implemented over phone by the National SURVEY Institute of Statistics of Djibouti (INSTAD). [...] 1 Despite the fact that this survey is the second wave of the COVID-19 monitoring survey on the refugee population, its results may not be compared to those from the first wave because of increased quality control implemented during the course of this wave resulting in patterns observed in the data that are consistent with dissimilar distributions of non-sampling errors resulting in potential bias. [...] CONCLUSION Some 20 months after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this fourth COVID-19 phone survey of the refugee population in Djibouti (the second one using a refugee sample), fielded between November and December 2021, aimed to provide further information on the continued well-being of refugees as the country transitions out of the socioeconomic shocks precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.