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Living Conditions of Palestinian Camp Refugees, Jordan 2011, Part 1 Results from Interviews with All Refugee Households in the 13 Palestinian Refugee Camps Huafeng Zhang, Åge A. Tiltnes and Hani Eldada Living conditions of Palestinian camp refugees, Jordan 2011, Part 1 Results from interviews with all refugee households in the 13 Palestinian refugee camps Huafeng Zhang, Åge A. Tiltnes and Hani Eldada Living conditions of Palestinian camp refugees, Jordan 2011, Part 1 Results from interviews with all refugee households in the 13 Palestinian refugee camps Fafo-paper 2014:16 © Fafo 2014 ISSN 0804-5135 Order no.: 10203 2 Contents Introduction 5 List of tables 1. Housing, infrastructure and living area 9 1.1 Type of dwelling 9 1.2 Characteristics of dwelling 10 1.3 Dominant construction material of dwelling 11 1.4 Construction material of roof 12 1.5 Construction material of wall 13 1.6 Type of kitchen 14 1.7 Number of rooms in dwelling 15 1.8 Number of rooms in dwelling (mean) 16 1.9 Room per person (mean) 17 1.10 Crowding 18 1.11 Size of living area (square meters) 19 1.12 Size of living area per person (square meters, mean) 20 1.13 Areas outside of dwelling 21 1.14 Type of toilet facility 22 1.15 Location of toilet 23 1.16 Means of garbage disposal 24 1.17 Main source of water 25 1.18 Main source of drinking water 26 1.19 Source of electricity 27 1.20 Tenure of dwelling 28 2. Household Economy 29 2.1 Holdings outside the camp, in Jordan 29 2.2 Annual per capita household income 30 2.3 Annual per capita household income (mean), in JD 31 2.4 Household income sources past 12 months 32 2.5 Types of household wage income past 12 months 33 2.6 Types of household self-employment income past 12 months 34 2.7 Types of household transfer income past 12 months (1) 35 2.8 Types of household transfer income past 12 months (2) 36 2.9 Types of household property income past 12 months 37 2.10 Types of other household income sources past 12 months 38 2.11 Household income past month, in JD 39 2.12 Household income past month (mean), in JD 40 2.13 Household income past 12 months, in JD 41 2.14 Household income past 12 months (mean), in JD 42 2.15 Households which receive assistance from UNRWA's Social Safety Net Program 43 2.16 Households that have received assistance to renovate or upgrade their dwelling in the 44 2.17 Assistance received during the past six months by type of assistance 45 2.18 Food assistance received during the past six months by source 46 2.19 Money assistance received during the past six months by source 47 2.20 Assets(1) 48 2.21 Assets(2) 49 2.22 Assets(3) 50 2.23 Asset index 51 3. Demography and refugee status 52 3.1 Household size 52 3.2 Household size (mean) 53 3.3 Household type 54 3.4 Percentage distribution of population by gender and age 55 3.5 Marital status, individuals 15 years and above 56 3.6 Citizenship 57 3.7 Jordanian national identity number 58 3.8 Type of residency permit among individuals without Jordanian citizenship 59 3.9 Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA 60 3.10 Palestinian refugees' place of origin in Palestine 61 3.11 Age when moved into the refugee camp 62 4. Education 63 4.1 Currently enrolled in school 63 4.2 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender 64 4.3 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Talbiyeh camp 65 4.4 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Hussein camp 66 4.5 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Wihdat camp 67 4.6 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Prince Hassan camp 68 4.7 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Baqa'a camp 69 4.8 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Zarqa camp 70 4.9 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Sukhneh camp 71 4.10 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Hitteen camp 72 4.11 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Madaba camp 73 4.12 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Irbid camp 74 4.13 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Azmi Al-Mufti camp 75 4.14 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Souf camp 76 4.15 Currently enrolled in school by age and gender in Jarash camp 77 4.16 Enrolment in kindergarten, children aged 4-6 78 4.17 Current enrollment 79 4.18 Type of Basic schools attended by camp children 80 4.19 Highest completed education 81 4.20 Literacy 82 4.21 Literacy by gender and age 83 5. Labor force 84 5.1 Labor force status 84 5.2 Labor force status (male) 85 5.3 Labor force status (female) 86 5.4 Youth labor force status 87 5.5 Type of employer 88 5.6 Employment status 89 5.7 Location of the workplace 90 5.8 Regularity of job 91 5.9 Duration of current job 92 5.10 Main activity in the past week 93 5.11 Unemployment rate 94 5.12 Unemployment rate (expanded) 95 5.13 Duration of unemployment 96 6. Health 97 6.1 Access to health insurance by type of insurance 97 6.2 Chronic health failure due to illness or injury 98 6.3 Age of onset of chronic health failure 99 6.4 Chronic health failure that hinder normal activity 100 Introduction Study and data This tabulation report comprises descriptive statistics from a study of the living condi- tions of the Palestinian refugee population residing inside Jordan’s 13 Palestinian refu- gee camps.1 The study was initiated by Jordan’s Department of Palestinian Affairs (DPA), funded by the Government of Norway, and implemented by Fafo in close col- laboration with Jordan’s Department of Statistics (DoS), and with design input from UNRWA. The study collected data through two large-scale surveys: (i) a comprehensive survey of the 13 Palestinian refugee camps (April to June 2011); and (ii) a multi-topic survey of a representative sample of Palestinian refugee-camp households (September to Novem- ber 2011). This report consists of tables with data from the comprehensive survey. The comprehensive survey consisted of a rather brief questionnaire and collected basic information about housing and infrastructure, household income and durable goods, as well as data pertaining to each household member, such as gender, age, civil status, refu- gee status, nationality, health status, educational attainment and labour force participa- tion. The study did not cover the natural extension of camps, but was limited to the ‘offi- cial’ or ‘historical’ borders of the camps since they have traditionally defined the man- date areas of the DPA. The first stage of the comprehensive survey identified and demarcated these borders with the support of the DPA. In the second stage of the comprehensive survey, all building structures, dwellings and households inside the camps were listed. Interviewing the listed households constituted the third stage of the comprehensive survey. The list- ing started on 26 February and interviewing ended on 28 June 2011. Altogether 40,843 households residing within the historical borders of the camps were identified. Non- response varied across camps from approximately one to three per cent. In total, 40,342 households were interviewed in the third major stage of the comprehensive survey. In principle, the results of the comprehensive survey are not valid for Palestinian refu- gees residing in the camps’ extensions. However, according to DPA and UNRWA, the circumstances of people residing in these adjacent areas are not significantly different from those inside the historical borders. We therefore believe the findings are fairly rep- resentative for the living conditions of Palestinian refugees residing in these adjacent areas also. 1 Ten of the 13 camps were originally established in response to the crises in 1948 and 1967 on government-owned or leased land for the specific purpose of establishing Palestinian refugee camps and are as such recognized as ‘official’ camps by UNRWA. The remaining three camps (Prince Hassan, Sukhneh and Madaba) were originally gatherings or concentrations of Palestinian refugees that were later recognized by the Jordanian government as camps but are still considered to be ‘unofficial’ by UNRWA. However, this has little impact on the services provided by UNRWA in these three camps. 5 Palestinian refugee defined This report applies ‘Palestinian refugee’ in accordance with a Jordanian classification system, which was used for the first time in Jordan’s 1994 Population Census and has later been applied in several surveys by DoS and Fafo. The survey requested that all household members be categorized into the following groups: 1. Refugee from 1948; 2. Displaced from 1967; 3. Refugee from 1948, then displaced in 1967; 4. From the Gaza Strip; and 5. Non-refugee. A ‘refugee from 1948’ is an individual whose place of permanent residence used to be in what is today the State of Israel (‘1948 areas’) and who took refuge in neighbouring countries as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and was prevented from returning. Someone ‘displaced from 1967’ is an individual who arrived in (the east bank of the riv- er) Jordan in conjunction with the 1967 war, and who was not already a refugee from 1948. ‘Refugees, then displaced’ are people who were first forced to flee due to the 1948 war and settled in the West Bank (from 1951 part of Jordan) and then had to flee for the second time in conjunction with the 1967 war.
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