Forced Displacement Survey 2024
Pakistan, 2024
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PAK_2024_FDS_v01_M
Forced Displacement Survey 2024
FDS 2024
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Pakistan | PAK |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
The Forced Displacement Survey (FDS) is UNHCR’s new flagship household survey programme designed to standardize, streamline, and build on the existing UNHCR survey landscape to produce high-quality and timely data on people forced to flee. The FDS is comparable across countries over time and aligned with international statistical standards. It has the purpose of providing actionable evidence to inform the government’s operational and policy-related data needs, as well as its humanitarian and development partners. As a multi-topic survey, the FDS collected household and individual level data on the socioeconomic characteristics and living conditions of targeted populations. Data was collected through face-to-face household interviews, where up to four household members aged 15 and above were interviewed: (1) the head of the household or a household member who was knowledgeable about the household; (2) a randomly selected household member who provided information about individual life experiences; (3) the caregiver of a randomly selected child under five years of age; and (4) a randomly selected woman who gave birth in the last two years.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Household and individual
Version
Version 2.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymized data.
Please note that, due to the anonymization process, the dataset may differ slightly from figures reported in official sources.
Scope
The scope includes:
- demographics
- displacement information
- assets
- livelihood
- health
- wellbeing
| Topic |
|---|
| Health |
| Livelihood and Social cohesion |
| Health and Nutrition |
| Food security |
| Water Sanitation Hygiene |
| Protection |
| Income Generation |
| Basic Needs |
| Emergency Shelter and NFI |
| Community Services |
| Education |
| Transportation |
| Reproductive Health |
| Mental Health and Psychosocial Support |
| Information Management |
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| UN Refugee Agency | UN |
Sampling
Stratified sampling, nationally representative sample for PoR card holders (refugees) and host community
In the first stage of weight estimation unequal probabilities of selection were adjusted. The host sample initial sample adjustment weights include adjustment for proximity to offset the differential probabilities of selection based on proximity of the buildings to the boundary of the refugee camp. Furthermore, the adjustment also included an adjustment for a household owning more than one building (based on the self-reported proxy collected during interview). The first stage weights were further adjusted for structural differences between the sample and the administrative make of each stratum – i.e. the samples within each stratum resembled the population of each stratum. These weights are rescaled to the size of stratum as sampled.
• wgh_samp_resc_str is the household weight restructured within each stratum, while maintaining the sampled size of each stratum (rescaled) – these weights are best for comparative analysis among the strata or analysis within each stratum.
• wgh_samp_resc_pop is the wgh_samp_resc_str post-stratified to the structure of the population, disregarding the sample size of the strata (i.e. adjusting strata sizes in the sample to their population proportions) and rescaled to the total sample size – these weights are best used for national level analysis. Similarly, the weights were estimated for all the observational levels of the data:
• wgh_str_rr is a weight for a random respondent of age 15 and above restructured within sampling strata (this weight also reflects adjustment of differential household sizes)
• wgh_pop_rr is a weight for a random respondent of age 15 and above population restructured
• wgh_str_u5 is a weight for random child under the age of 5 restructured within sampling strata
• wgh_pop_u5 is a weight for random child under the age of 5 population restructured
• wgh_str_rw is a weight for a random woman who gave birth within 2 prior years restructured within sampling strata
• wgh_pop_rw is a weight for a random woman who gave birth within 2 prior years population restructured
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2024-05-02 | 2024-12-31 |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
| Name |
|---|
| C4ED |
Data Access
UNHCR (2025). Pakistan: Forced Displacement Survey, 2024. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Curation team | UNHCR | microdata@unhcr.org |
Metadata production
DDI_PAK_2024_FDS_v01_M
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| UN Refugee Agency | UNHCR | UN | Metadata producer |
| Development Data Group | DECDG | World Bank Group | Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library |
2025-10-16
Metadata version
Identical to a metadata (UNHCR_PAK_2024_FDS_v2.1) published on UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.