Living Conditions in Anbar Province in June 2008
ResearchPublished Aug 27, 2009
The local population is the center of gravity in counterinsurgency, and the first step toward winning the population is to understand it. Security forces must know the people's concerns, hopes, grievances — how families and individuals think and live. To gain a better understanding of the lives of the people in Iraq's Anbar Province (once one of the most violent areas in the country), RAND carried out a survey of living conditions in the province, conducting face-to-face interviews with a random sample of 1,200 heads of Anbari households.
Building on a 2004 United Nations Development Programme survey, the 2008 survey asked questions about demographics, employment, income and standards of living, education, health, housing and public infrastructure, the effects of war, and agriculture. The survey findings reveal that many improvements have occurred since 2004. However, the data also expose the extent to which Anbari households have suffered from the effects of war, including the death, disappearance, detainment, arrest, and displacement of family members. The survey findings should foster greater understanding of current conditions in al-Anbar and help identify areas on which to focus future assistance.
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- Year: 2009
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- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/TR715
- Document Number: TR-715-MCIA
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Crane, Keith, Martin C. Libicki, Audra K. Grant, James B. Bruce, Omar Al-Shahery, Alireza Nader, and Suzanne Perry, Living Conditions in Anbar Province in June 2008, RAND Corporation, TR-715-MCIA, 2009. As of September 19, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR715.html
Crane, Keith, Martin C. Libicki, Audra K. Grant, James B. Bruce, Omar Al-Shahery, Alireza Nader, and Suzanne Perry, Living Conditions in Anbar Province in June 2008. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2009. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR715.html. Also available in print form.
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