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Methodology

Background & Methodology

The studied community included several areas of Aleppo and Idleb governorates that are under
different military, economic, and administrative situations. Also, as the field researchers belong to
different CSOs, it was important to focus on the importance of joint coordination among researchers

under Shaml, and to provide a unified approach in data collection. By doing so, we tried to ensure
that sub-groups categorized according to age, gender, education, profession, location, residency
type (host/displaced) were similar in all of the studied sub-districts.

Sampling

The overall population in the targeted sub-districts reaches up to 544,250 thousand people,
according to latest estimations, the minimal required sample size has been calculated according to
2
Robert-Mason equation to be 1065 people. The number was then distributed over the sub-districts
according to their relevant population size and we have exceeded the minimum number of
questionnaires to reach 1328.

Sample size in the % of youth in the population Targeted area Targeted district
targeted community studied area
147 13.78 75000 Ariha Ariha
98 9.18 50000 Dana Harim
42 3.85 21000 Abzimo Jabel Saman
45 4.27 23250 Big Orem Jabel Saman
59 5.51 30000 Kafr naha Jabel Saman
176 16.53 90000 Marat A’noman Marat A’noman
156 14.69 80000 Maarat Misrin Idleb
127 11.94 65000 Atareb Jabel Saman
215 20.21 110000 Al Bab Al Bab

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V=M/([[(S^2×(M-1)] ÷(P(1-p))] +1)
M: is the number of overall populations in the targeted area
ZE is the margin of errors
Z is the confidence level which is fixed at 95%

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