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UNHCR standardised expanded nutrition survey for Dzaleka Refugee Camp (2012)
Historical UNHCR microdata release for Dzaleka Refugee Camp covering nutrition, food security, mosquito net coverage, WASH, women, and children under five.
Nutrition survey microdata mode 2 resources Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi Updated May 12, 2022
About this dataset
This page captures a Dzaleka-specific UNHCR SENS release that serves as a historical baseline for nutrition and household food-security work.
It is particularly useful for long-run comparisons because the UNHCR metadata frames it as the first nutrition assessment since 2008 and documents both the target and achieved sample sizes.
Why this dataset matters
When people ask for older Dzaleka evidence, they often need something more structured than a narrative report and older than the 2016 and 2017 releases. This survey helps fill that gap.
It is useful for:
- historical baseline comparisons
- nutrition and food-security context
- humanitarian trend analysis
- understanding how survey coverage changed between Dzaleka-only and broader Dzaleka-Luwani releases
What the UNHCR record says
The UNHCR catalog describes this as a 2012 Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey for Dzaleka Refugee Camp. The public entry states that fieldwork took place between June 27, 2012 and July 5, 2012 and that the survey included household, child, infant, women, mosquito net, WASH, and food-security modules.
Because the metadata records both target and achieved sample sizes, it is a stronger reference than a simple headline figure when you need to understand the shape of the study.
How to position it in research
- Use it as a historical anchor, not as a current operational dataset.
- Pair it with the 2016 and 2017 pages in this catalog if you are building a multi-year evidence timeline.
- Always check the upstream UNHCR terms, documentation, and confidentiality conditions before downloading or reusing the microdata.
What it includes
- Focuses specifically on Dzaleka Refugee Camp rather than a combined Dzaleka-Luwani response area.
- The metadata reports a target sample of 504 households and 314 children under five, with achieved samples of 422 households and 365 children.
- Modules include food security, mosquito net coverage, WASH, infants aged 0 to 23 months, women aged 15 to 49 years, and children under five.
Resources
Public routes, downloadable files, or external sources you can use directly.
External HTML
UNHCR catalog entry
Official study landing page with metadata and microdata access information for the 2012 Dzaleka SENS release.
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/659
External HTML
UNHCR Dzaleka microdata search
Search results page for neighboring Dzaleka datasets in the UNHCR catalog.
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog?page=1&sk=Dzaleka&sort_by=rank&sort_order=desc&ps=15
Methodology and curation notes
- UNHCR describes this survey as SMART-based and aligned with the UNHCR SENS Guidelines for Refugee Populations.
- The metadata states that simple random sampling was used and that raw survey weights are included in the release.
- This page is meant to make the external source easier to discover from the local catalog, not to duplicate the microdata itself.
Research references
UNHCR Microdata Library entry for UNHCR_MWI_2012_SENS_v2.1
Official metadata page for the 2012 Dzaleka SENS release.
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/659
UNHCR Dzaleka search results
Useful for finding later Dzaleka-related surveys in the same catalog.
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog?page=1&sk=Dzaleka&sort_by=rank&sort_order=desc&ps=15
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