Socio-Economic Characteristics of Displaced Palestinian Refugees from the Nahr El-Bared Refugee Camp

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This report provides statistics based primarily on a field survey of 999 Palestinian families displaced from the Nahr El-Bared refugee camp outside the city of Tripoli. The study was implemented late August 2007, when approximately one-half of the displaced were accommodated in the nearby Beddawi refugee camp while the rest had found refuge primarily in and around Tripoli but also, in smaller numbers, in the Beqaa, Beirut, Saida and Tyre - inside as well as outside camps. When relevant the report draws on other sources as well. The interviewed families were randomly selected from a list of 4,855 displaced families provided by UNRWA. The report looks at certain aspects of housing conditions and covers social relations, it examines education and employment, and the report provides some data on chronic illness and disability. While not being representative of all the displaced from Nahr El-Bared, we believe the statistics paint a fairly decent picture of their situation at the time.