The Syrian Refugee Life Study : First Glance
This paper presents descriptive statistics from the first wave of the Syrian Refugee Life Study (S-RLS), which was launched in 2020. S-RLS is a longitudinal study that tracks a representative sample of 2,500 registered Syrian refugee households in...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/668611645027887588/The-Syrian-Refugee-Life-Study-First-Glance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37011 |
| Summary: | This paper presents descriptive
statistics from the first wave of the Syrian Refugee Life
Study (S-RLS), which was launched in 2020. S-RLS is a
longitudinal study that tracks a representative sample of
2,500 registered Syrian refugee households in Jordan. It
collects comprehensive data on socio-demographic variables
as well as information on health and well-being,
preferences, social capital, attitudes, and safety and crime
perceptions. This study uses these novel data to document
the socio-demographic characteristics of Syrian refugees in
Jordan, and compare them to those of the representative
Jordanian and non-Jordanian populations interviewed in the
2016 Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey. The findings point to
lags in basic service access, housing quality, and
educational attainment for the Syrian refugee population,
relative to the non-refugee population. The impacts of the
pandemic may serve to partially explain these documented
disparities. The data also illustrate that most Syrian
refugees have not recovered economically from the shock of
COVID-19 and that this population has larger gender
disparities in terms of income, employment, prevalence of
child marriage, and gender attitudes than their non-refugee
counterparts. Finally, mental health problems are common for
Syrian refugees in 2020, with depression indicated among
over 61 percent of the population. |
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