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The Egypt Economic Cost of Gender-Based Violence Survey, ECGBVS 2015
No full textThe 2015 ECGBVS was designed to provide and disseminate accurate, nationally representative data related to Gender-Based Violence against women and girls and its associated economic costs. These data will help the policy-makers and planners to formulate evidence-based strategies and action plans to combat violence against women.
The survey aims to measure the following:
- Prevalence and incidence of the different types and forms of violence against women.
- Impact of violence on women’s health, reproductive health and general wellbeing.
- Consequences of violence against women and their associated economic costs.
Initiation of a collaboration in the beginning of 2014 between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the National Council for Women (NCW) and the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) to conduct the national survey collecting evidence on the prevalence of Gender-Based Violence, its effects on reproductive and general health and wellbeing, as well as assessing the economic cost the victim, society and state endure yearly as a result. Technical and financial support to CAPMAS and NCW were solely provided by UNFPA Egypt country office.
The fieldwork for the 2015 ECGBVS took place from April 11, 2015 to June 11, 2015. The sample for the 2015 ECGBVS was designed to provide representative estimates of the survey indicators at the national level, for urban and rural areas separately and for the five regions: Urban Governorates, urban Lower Egypt, rural Lower Egypt, urban Upper Egypt and rural Upper Egypt. Frontier Governorates were excluded from the sample as their population constitutes less than 1 percent of Egypt’s total population and accordingly does not affect national estimates.
A total of 21,448 households were selected for the sample, of which 21,102 were found at the time of fieldwork. Of the households that were found, 20,535 were successfully interviewed, yielding a household response rate of 97.3 percent. In these households, 20,157 women were identified as eligible for the individual interview. Out of these women, 20,000 were successfully interviewed, which represents a response rate of 99.2 percent. In view of the extreme sensitivity of the main topic of the survey (violence against women), this response rate is highly encouraging and appears to be the result of a well-coordinated team effort. As expected, response rates were lower in the urban areas than in the rural areas. Women aged 18-64 who were residents or present in the household for a month or more before the survey were eligible for the 2015 ECGBVS. Only one eligible woman in each household was selected for the interview.
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/238</a
Social Sciences and Humanities Libraries in the Arab Region, December 2023
No full textList of social sciences and/or humanities libraries, both physical and electronic, as well as unified catalogs and thematic bibliographies/indexes in the Arab region. Includes the fields of focus, possibility of access and external borrowing by non-affiliated visitors and the availability of online public access catalog etc
Arab Opinion Index 2012-2013
No full textThe second Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between July 2012 and March 2013 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 21,350 responses from 14 Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen). It measured public opinion trends related to the degree of citizens’ satisfaction with their economic conditions, standards of living, and the level of services they receive, as well as their views on democracy, political participation, and the impact of religion on general and political life. It also covered how much confidence citizens have in state institutions, how they define the sources of threats to their personal or national security, their perceptions of their Arab surroundings and their positions towards Arab revolutions
Harmonized Household Health Surveys, HHHS 2012, Iraq
No full textIraq is considered a leader in household expenditure and income surveys where the first was conducted in 1946 followed by surveys in 1954 and 1961. After the establishment of Central Statistical Organization, household expenditure and income surveys were carried out every 3-5 years in (1971/ 1972, 1976, 1979, 1984/ 1985, 1988, 1993, 2002 / 2007).
Implementing the cooperation between CSO and WB, Central Statistical Organization (CSO) and Kurdistan Region Statistics Office (KRSO) launched fieldwork on IHSES on 1/1/2012. The survey was carried out over a full year covering all governorates including those in Kurdistan Region.
The survey has six main objectives. These objectives are:
1. Provide data for poverty analysis and measurement and monitor, evaluate and update the implementation Poverty Reduction National Strategy issued in 2009.
2. Provide comprehensive data system to assess household social and economic conditions and prepare the indicators related to the human development.
3. Provide data that meet the needs and requirements of national accounts.
4. Provide detailed indicators on consumption expenditure that serve making decision related to production, consumption, export and import.
5. Provide detailed indicators on the sources of households and individuals income.
6. Provide data necessary for formulation of a new consumer price index number.
The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Office were then harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, to create a comparable version with the 2006/2007 Household Socio Economic Survey in Iraq.
Harmonization at this stage only included unifying variables' names, labels and some definitions.
See: Iraq 2007 & 2012- Variables Mapping & Availability Matrix.pdf provided in the external resources for further information on the mapping of the original variables on the harmonized ones, in addition to more indications on the variables' availability in both survey years and relevant comments.
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/110</a
Arab Opinion Index 2015
No full textThe fourth Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between May and September 2015 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 18,311 responses from 12 Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisia). It measured public opinion trends related to the degree of citizens’ satisfaction with their economic conditions, standards of living, and the level of services they receive, as well as their views on democracy, political participation, and the impact of religion on general and political life. It also covered how much confidence citizens have in state institutions, how they define the sources of threats to their personal or national security, their perceptions of their Arab surroundings and their positions towards Arab revolutions
Arab Opinion Index 2017-2018
No full textThe sixth Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between December 2017 and April 2018 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 18,830 responses from 11 Arab countries (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisia). It measured public opinion trends related to the degree of citizens’ satisfaction with their economic conditions, standards of living, and the level of services they receive, as well as their views on democracy, political participation, and the impact of religion on general and political life. It also covered how much confidence citizens have in state institutions, how they define the sources of threats to their personal or national security, their perceptions of their Arab surroundings and their positions towards ISIS
Arab Opinion Index 2019-2020
No full textThe seventh Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between November 2019 and July 2020 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 28,000 responses from 13 Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisia). It measured public opinion trends related to the degree of citizens’ satisfaction with their economic conditions, standards of living, and the level of services they receive, as well as their views on democracy, political participation, and the impact of religion on general and political life. It also covered how much confidence citizens have in state institutions, how they define the sources of threats to their personal or national security, their perceptions of their Arab surroundings and their positions towards Arab revolutions
Labor Market Panel Survey, ELMPS 2018, Egypt
No full textThe Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey, carried out by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in cooperation with Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Over its twenty-year history, the ELMPS has become the mainstay of labor market and human development research in Egypt, being the first and most comprehensive source of publicly available micro data on the subject.
The 2018 wave of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) is the fourth wave of a longitudinal survey carried out by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in cooperation with the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The 2018 wave follows previous waves in 1998, 2006 and 2012. Over its twenty-year history, the ELMPS has become the mainstay of labor market and human development research in Egypt, being the first and most comprehensive source of publicly available micro data on the subject.
The ELMPS is a wide-ranging, nationally representative panel survey that covers topics such as parental background, education, housing, access to services, residential mobility, migration and remittances, time use, marriage patterns and costs, fertility, women’s decision making and empowerment, job dynamics, savings and borrowing behavior, the operation of household enterprises and farms, besides the usual focus on employment, unemployment and earnings in typical labor force surveys. ELMPS 2018 also provided more detailed information on health, gender role attitudes, food security, hazardous work, community infrastructure and the cost of housing. It incorporated specific questions on vulnerability, coping strategies and access to social safety net programs. (Krafft, C, Assaad, R., and Rahman, K .,2019)
In addition to the survey’s panel design, which permits the study of various phenomena over time, the survey also contains a large number of retrospective questions about the timing of major life events such as education, residential mobility, jobs, marriage and fertility. The survey provides detailed information about place of birth and subsequent residence, as well information about schools and colleges attended at various stages of an individual’s trajectory, which permit the individual records to be linked to information from other data sources about the geographic context in which the individual lived and the educational institutions s/he attended.
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/157</a
Labor Market Panel Survey, JLMPS 2016, Jordan
No full textAs part of its series of comprehensive labor market panel surveys, the Economic Research Forum had conducted a survey in Jordan in 2010, the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey of 2010 (JLMPS 2010) and had planned to conduct a new wave after six years. The JLMPS 2016 thus comes at an opportune time to allow for an in-depth assessment of critical social and economic developments in Jordan's recent history.
The JLMPS is part of a series of labor market panel surveys carried out by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in several Arab countries since 1998 and whose microdata are available for public use through the ERF data portal. These surveys have, so far, been carried out in Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). The ERF Labor Market Panel Surveys (LMPSs) are carried out in cooperation with the national statistical office of each country. Accordingly, the JLMPS 2016 was carried out in cooperation with the Jordanian Department of Statistics (DoS), which had preserved the personally identifiable information (PII) of the sample from the previous wave, supplied a refresher sample based on the design provided by ERF researchers, and implemented all data collection activities using tablet computers.
As part of a longitudinal survey, the 2016 wave of JLMPS was designed to follow an existing population over time. However, the 2016 wave was also designed to capture the implications of the large influx of new populations, both refugee and migrant worker flows, into Jordan during the intervening period. To this end, the survey design team decided to add a large refresher sample of 3,000 households that over-sampled neighborhoods in Jordan that had high proportions of non-Jordanian households, including refugee camps, as ascertained by the 2015 Population Census. New modules were also added to the questionnaire to inquire about the in-migration of non-Jordanians, food security, and household exposure to shocks and coping strategies. We assume in this paper that the 2015 Census population counts of various nationality groups are appropriate for our sample and reproduce these counts by means of the appropriate ex-post weights" (Krafft and Assaad, 2018).
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/139</a
The Link between Muslim Religiosity and Negative Attitudes toward the West: An Arab Study
No full textStudy participants were drawn from seventeen Arab countries in the Middle East and were recruited via social media. The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the relationship between types of Muslim religiosity and prejudice towards the West. The study also examined the role of other associated constructs in mediating the link between Muslim religiosity and anti-Western attitudes