# Appendix E. Alternative data sources

IOM’s CBNA collects information on arrival IDPs twice a year based on key informant interviews at the level of settlements, which are aggregated into districts and regions. In 2020, new displacements were reported across 1,069 settlements in 7 districts of the Badghis province. In CBNA, respondents are asked to indicate the percentages of IDPs that arrived at a settlement due to conflict and natural disasters; in the dataset, displacements are grouped into four categories, such as induced by conflict, conflict-natural disasters, natural disasters, and natural disasters-conflict.

OCHA’s dataset (HDX 2021) includes information on conflict-induced displacements at the level of districts, collected through the alert system; additionally, OCHA reports the dates of displacements. In 2020, there were 66 incidents (dates) of displacement due to conflict, and those IDPs arrived in 2 districts of the Badghis province.

Comparisons of IOM and OCHA data on new displacements were performed for the districts reported by both organizations. IOM reported more conflict-induced displacements than OCHA in the Ab Kamari district but no settlements with only conflict-induced arrival IDPs in the Qala-e-Naw district. At the same time, the IOM’s numbers of IDPs due to conflict and conflict-natural disasters exceed the OCHA’s numbers of conflict-induced IDPs in both districts. Effective comparisons of IOM and OCHA data on displacements may not be conducted due to differences in their data collection methodologies.

## Period of comparison

The IOM’s CBNA contains data on new displacements in Afghanistan during 2018-2020; the dataset that we currently have includes 4 periods: January-December 2018, January-June 2019, January-June 2020, and January-December 2020. The OCHA data on conflict-induced displacements are available for 2016-2020.

Table A1. New displacements in Badghis province reported by IOM and OCHA.

|Organization|2016|2017|2018|20|19|20|20|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Jan-June|July-Dec|Jan-June|July-Dec|
|||||2019|2019|2020|2020|
|IOM|-|-|168197<sup>15</sup>|32983|-|19747|24819|
|OCHA|15157|27361|9918|24113|2053|1810|6072|

A comparative analysis of IOM and OCHA data on IDPs in the Badghis province was performed for JanuaryDecember 2020, except for correlation analysis, which was done for 2019-2020.

## Description of IOM data on displacement

IOM’s CBNA provides information on internally displaced people (IDPs) twice a year based on key informant interviews at the levels of settlements, districts, and provinces in Afghanistan. In particular, for the period of January-December 2020, the data are available for 1069 settlements and 7 districts of the Badghis province. Summary statistics for new displacements in 2020 are presented in Table 2. The largest numbers of IDPs arrived in Bala Murghab (22,491 new IDPs; on average, 91 people in each of 247 settlements) and Qala-e-Naw (12,289 new IDPs; on average, 90 persons in 136 settlements) districts of the Badghis province.

Table A2. The summary statistics for Arrival IDPs (new displacements) in Badghis province in 2020.<sup>16</sup>

|Districts|Mean|Std. Dev.|Freq.|
|---|---|---|---|
||||(# of settlements)|

15 The number of ArrivalIDPs2018 in IOM’s 2018 CBNA is too large and most likely to include displacements in previous periods (not only IDPs that arrived in 2018). This number cannot be compared with OCHA’s number.

> 16 Stata command: .tab ADM2NameEnglish, sum (ArrivalIDPs2020).