Table 14 Educational attainment of individuals aged 25-44 by ex-Gaza status and five-year age groups. Percentage (n=51,611). Ex-Gazans, Jerash camp Other ex-Gazans 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 Never enrolled 2 4 2 4 2 2 3 5 Not completed any school 7 8 8 9 9 8 6 10 Elementary 15 14 15 16 16 16 17 18 Preparatory/ Basic 49 48 43 33 44 44 41 35 Secondary 14 13 12 9 14 17 18 12 Community college 3 5 11 21 8 8 12 16 University 11 9 9 7 7 6 4 4 Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Other Palestinian refugees All aged 25-44 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 Never enrolled 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 Not completed any school 5 6 7 8 5 6 7 8 Elementary 14 16 16 17 14 15 16 17 Preparatory/ Basic 44 46 43 35 44 46 43 35 Secondary 16 16 15 13 15 16 15 13 Community college 9 8 13 19 9 8 13 19 University 11 6 5 5 11 6 5 5 Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Locational variation It should also be noted that inter-camp educational attainment varies significantly. By way of example, the share of people with post-secondary education is about twice as high in Baqa’a camp as in Hussein camp (Table 15). In most camps, the achievement of exGazans follows the overall pattern of other camp residents. Hitteen camp, where nearly a quarter of all residents are ex-Gazan, offers a particularly good example of how ex-Gaza educational achievement is tied to the camp context: here ex-Gazans and non-ex-Gazans have almost identical educational attainment (Table 15). An exception to this trend is found in Wihdat camp in Amman, where ex-Gazans aged 25 to 44 score significantly below their fellow residents, with nine percentage points fewer (about 18% versus 29%) having attained secondary education or above (Figure 11). Significant locational disparity with regards to educational attainment does not only apply to residents of the Palestinian refugee camps; analysis of national statistics for the years 2010 to 2014, for example, found that residents over the age of 24 in the governorates of Mafraq and Zarqa are routinely below the national average on secondary and post-secondary attainment, whilst residents of Amman are consistently well above average (DoS and Fafo, 2015). ‘Just getting by’ Ex-Gazans in Jerash and other refugee camps in Jordan 49