Title: Afghanistan World Bank Phone Survey of Afghan Returnees : Methodology and Representativeness
Abstract: In early 2017, as Afghanistan witnessed the largest influx of refugee returns in recent years, little was known about the location patterns and needs of the more than 2 million Afghan returnees who had come back since 2015. Separate agencies managed registration databases for different groups, and the lack of access to SIM cards (due to the lack of necessary documentation) severely limited the broad applicability of findings from phone monitoring surveys. At the same time, existing data sources had not been fully exploited to characterize different groups of displaced populations, nor had attempts been made to link them to data collected by humanitarian agencies. The main purpose of collecting information on returnees was to assist the design and targeting of development programs for recent and future returnees. The note will start by discussing the details of how survey participants were identified using a combination of Random Digit Dialing (RDD) and Interactive voice response (IVR) and respondent driven sampling (RDS). Section 3 will present the survey design, implementation and response rates. Section 4 discusses the implications of the sampling methods and section 5 analyzes the representativeness of the collected data. Section Error! Reference source not found. discusses the use of sampling weights to adjust for sampling bias and finally, section 7 summarizes up the lessons learned.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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