Leaving No One Behind: Statelessness and the Sustainable Development Goals Côte d’Ivoire: mapping risks of statelessness The National Institute of Statistics of Côte d’Ivoire, in collaboration with several government ministries and with support from UNHCR, UNFPA and UNICEF, conducted a mapping study on the number of people in Côte d’Ivoire who are stateless or at risk of statelessness (Cartographie des personnes à risque d’apatridie en Côte d’Ivoire, CAPRA, published in 2019).205 The study was regarded as an experiment or a trial for the potential future collection of official statistics and has been used by officials considering policy options for resolving the risks of statelessness in the resident population. • The definition of “a person at risk of statelessness” used in the CAPRA study is a person who is unable to meet the necessary conditions or produce the necessary documents to be certified or assigned a nationality. • Those at risk of statelessness were assessed using a complex set of variables including country of birth, lack of registration of birth, lack of proof of nationality or documentation proving parentage. • Those at high risk of statelessness were either born abroad and without documents to prove their nationality or parentage, or they were born in Côte d’Ivoire but had no proof of nationality or proof of the nationality of deceased parents. • Persons who had tried and failed to obtain proof of nationality were assessed to be at very high risk of statelessness. A household survey was conducted in 2018 using a sample of 9,240 households living in 462 enumeration zones; together with a qualitative study involving 81 contextual interviews, 150 individual interviews and 20 focus group discussions. A two-stage sample design was used to sample from the resident household population. In the first stage, the sampling framework used was the General Population and Housing Census of 2014. From this, the enumeration zones were drawn, with a probability proportional to the size of each district. In the second stage, a systematic sample of 20 households was drawn from all of the households identified in the selected enumeration zones. The preliminary results of the study provided an initial estimate of the population living in Côte d’Ivoire who were at varying degrees of risk of statelessness, most of them were at low risk of statelessness, with some three quarters of those assessed likely to be eligible for Ivorian nationality. Fifteen per cent of the surveyed population had not had their births registered and only half held birth certificates or their equivalent; two-thirds of those aged over 16 years held proof of nationality. Despite the relatively high incidence of the risk of statelessness, the results showed that more than half of those surveyed (54.6 per cent) had not heard of the concept of statelessness. 205. Adapted from EGRISS, “Country examples of data collection on statelessness statistics”. 53