The Syrian Refugee Life Study

dc.creatorMiguel, Edward A.
dc.creatorPalmer, Bailey
dc.creatorRozo Villarraga, Sandra Viviana
dc.creatorStillman, Sarah Virginia
dc.creatorSmith, Emma
dc.creatorTamim, Abdulrazzak
dc.date2022-02-22T15:50:39Z
dc.date2022-02-22T15:50:39Z
dc.date2022-02-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:37:05Z
dc.descriptionThis 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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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/668611645027887588/The-Syrian-Refugee-Life-Study-First-Glance
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37011
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-9940
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/407463
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper; 9940
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.titleThe Syrian Refugee Life Study
dc.titleFirst Glance

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