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BEIRUT, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The American University of Beirut, together with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), launched Friday a survey on the socioeconomic status of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
"Commissioned by the UNRWA, this survey was conducted in April 2015 across nearly 3,000 households of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon and over 1,000 households of Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon," the UN agency said in a release.
It pointed that the survey gives an in-depth analysis of the living conditions and socioeconomic status of all Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon.
The survey highlights the challenges the refugees face, particularly the ones related to their poverty levels and access to employment, the UNRWA said.
"Some 65 percent of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon and 90 percent of those from Syria live in poverty, with 9 percent of the Syrian refugees in extreme poverty and unable to meet the essential food needs," it added, stressing that unemployment rates of the two groups are 23.2 percent and 52.5 percent, respectively.
According to the United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees, Lebanon hosts more than 1.1 million Syrians who fled their war-torn country since the beginning of the uprising against the President Bashar Assad in March 2011. Enditem
