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Arab Opinion Index 2014
No full textThe third Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between January and July 2014 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 26,618 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 2010, Sudan
No full textThe Sudan Household Health Survey 2nd round (SHHS2) 2010 provides up-to-date information on the situation of children and women and measures of key indicators that allow countries to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments.
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 Household Health Survey in Sudan.
Harmonization at this stage only included unifying variables' names, labels and some definitions. See: Sudan 2006 & 2010- 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 sample harmonized and disseminated by the Economic research represents Northern Sudan only.
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/104</a
Arab Opinion Index 2022
No full textThe eighth Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between May and December 2022 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 33,300 responses from 14 Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, 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, emigration 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 internet usage
Integrated Labor Market Panel Surveys ILMPS
No full textThe Economic Research Forum (ERF) has undertaken a number of labor market panel surveys (LMPSs) across countries and time. This data set integrates (harmonizes) these surveys, including:
· The 1988 special round of the Labor Force Sample Survey (LFSS)
· The 1998, 2006, 2012, and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS)
· The 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey (JLMPS)
· The 2014 round of the Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey (TLMPS)
The harmonization is designed to create comparable data that can facilitate cross-country and comparative research. All the surveys incorporate similar survey designs, with data on households and individuals within those households. Most incorporate a specific questionnaire on household enterprises and migrants. Not all variables from the original surveys are included in the integrated surveys, but work is ongoing to add further variables. Future survey rounds will also be integrated.
The Integrated Consumption and Poverty Estimates for the Labor Market Panel Surveys are an extension of the Labor Market Panel Surveys (LMPSs), providing consumption estimates for households included in the LMPSs. Per capita consumption is modeled based on contemporaneous Household Income, Expenditure, and Consumption Surveys (HIECSs) and overlapping variables for each country and round. As well as predicted consumption from the underlying models, 100 iterations of the imputation that recover the original variance are provided. Consumption can also be compared to poverty lines to estimate the incidence of poverty. To get correct estimates of poverty and inequality statistics or any other outcomes related to consumption, it is necessary to bootstrap across the 100 iterations.
Data are designed to be merged with the Integrated Labor Market Panel Survey (ILMPS) data also available from the ERF data portal. Estimates are included for Egypt's 1998, 2006, and 2012 rounds, along with the Jordan 2010 and Tunisia 2014 LMPSs.
The sample is households from the Egypt 1998, 2006, 2012, Jordan 2010, and Tunisia 2014 rounds of the LMPSs. However, when missing data on one or more variables precluded inclusion of a household in the consumption model, it was excluded from the data.
For further details, see "Estimating Poverty and Inequality in the Absence of Consumption Data: An Application to the Middle East and North Africa" by Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Hanan Nazier, Racha Ramadan, and Atiyeh Vahidmanesh; available among the external resources.
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/158</a
Harmonized Household Health Surveys, HHHS 2006, Sudan
No full textThe Sudan Household Health Survey (SHHS), conducted in 2006, is the first household survey covering Northern and Southern Sudan in two decades.
The primary objectives of the 2006 Sudan Household Health Survey were:
- To provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children and women in Sudan.
- To furnish data needed for monitoring progress toward goals established by the Millennium Development Goals: the goals of “A World Fit For Children”, “Programme of Action” adopted at the “International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)”, and other internationally agreed upon goals, as a basis for action.
- To contribute to the improvement of data and monitoring systems in Sudan and to strengthen technical expertise in the design, implementation, and analysis of such systems.
- To strengthen and build the institutional capacity of government partners for the upcoming 2008 Census and large scale surveys.
The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Office were then harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, to create a comparable version with the 2010 Household Health Survey in Sudan.
Harmonization at this stage only included unifying variables' names, labels and some definitions.
See: Sudan 2006 & 2010- 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/103</a
SAHWA Youth Survey 2016 Dataset, 2021
No full textThis dataset contains the opinion of 9,860 young people from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia on issues related to education, employment and social inclusion, political engagement, culture and values, gender issues, migration and international mobility, and public policies and international cooperation.
The creation and publication of the dataset was led by Centre d’Informació i Documentació Internacionals a Barcelona - Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) in the framework of the EU-funded FP-7 SAHWA Project – Researching Arab Youth. Towards a New Social Contract
Labor Market Panel Survey, ELMPS 1998, Egypt
No full textIn 1991, the Egyptian government initiated a major Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Program (ERSAP). This reform included a stabilization component to eliminate external and external imbalances, a reform agenda for the trade and financial sectors and the exchange rate regime, and an ambitious privatization program. Until recently, however, little was known about the impact of this program on employment and earnings in the Egyptian labor market. Therefore ERF conducted The Egypt Labor Market survey with a nationally-representative household survey covering 5,000 households which aimed to assess the major changes in labor market conditions that occurred during the period from 1988 to 1998, a period of significant economic reform and structural adjustment.
This project investigated changes in the supply and demand for labor, including the extent to which the private sector has contributed to employment creation, and the groups that have benefited from employment growth. Trends in labor earnings and wages, in women’s and youth employment, and in child labor and schooling are analyzed and the role of the informal sector in employment creation is explored, as well as the extent to which the labor market itself has become more informal over the period.
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/28</a
Arab Opinion Index 2016
No full textThe fifth Arab Opinion Index survey was carried out between September and December 2016 through face-to-face interviews and yielded 18,310 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 and ISIS
Labor Market Panel Survey, ELMPS 2012, 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) since 1998, has become the mainstay of labor market and human resource development research in Egypt, being the first and most comprehensive source of publicly available micro data on the subject.
The 2012 round of the survey provides a unique opportunity to ascertain the impact of the momentous events accompanying the January 25th revolution on the Egyptian economy and labor market and on the lives of Egyptian workers and their families. The Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey of 2012 (ELMPS 2012) is the third round of this longitudinal survey, which was also carried out in 2006.
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. 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." (Assaad and Krafft, 2013)
The data may be accessed through the ERF Data Portal: http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog/161</a
Harmonized Household Health Surveys, HHHS 2007, Iraq
No full textIn order to develop an effective poverty reduction policies and programs, Iraqi policy makers need to know how large the poverty problem is, what kind of people are poor, and what are the causes and consequences of poverty. Until recently, they had neither the data nor an official poverty line. (The last national income and expenditure survey was in 1988.)
In response to this situation, the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation established the Household Survey and Policies for Poverty Reduction Project in 2006, with financial and technical support of the World Bank. The project has been led by the Iraqi Poverty Reduction Strategy High Committee, a group which includes representatives from Parliament, the prime minister's office, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and the ministries of Planning and Development Cooperation, Finance, Trade, Labor and Social Affairs, Education, Health, Women's Affairs, and Baghdad University.
The Project has consisted of three components:
- Collection of data which can provide a measurable indicator of welfare, i.e. The Iraq Household Socio Economic Survey (IHSES).
- Establishment of an official poverty line (i.e. a cut off point below which people are considered poor) and analysis of poverty (how large the poverty problem is, what kind of people are poor and what are the causes and consequences of poverty).
- Development of a Poverty Reduction Strategy, based on a solid understanding of poverty in Iraq.
The survey has four main objectives. These are:
• To provide data that will help in the measurement and analysis of poverty.
• To provide data required to establish a new consumer price index (CPI) since the current outdated CPI is based on 1993 data and no longer applies to the country's vastly changed circumstances.
• To provide data that meet the requirements and needs of national accounts.
• To provide other indicators, such as consumption expenditure, sources of income, human development, and time use.
The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Office were then harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, to create a comparable version with the 2012 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/109</a