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Rural Finance and Food Security Study in Bangladesh, 1994

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Rural Finance and Food Security Study in Bangladesh, 1994
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ABOUY6
 
Creator Ahmed, Akhter
Zeller, Manfred
Sharma, Manohar
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The Rural Finance and Food Security survey was conducted in Bangladesh in 1994 to analyze the determinants of the formation and participation in group-based rural financial institutions and the effects of participation on household resource allocation, income generation, and food and nonfood consumption. The community level survey covered 120 villages, and the household survey covered 1,181 individuals in 350 households in 7 villages in 5 thanas. The study included credit groups formed by three Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)- Association for Social Advancement (ASA), Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), and Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Services (RDRS). Selection of respondents for the household surveys was based on stratified random sampling, with household possession of land as the stratifier, irrespective of membership in NGO programs. Household surveys focused on collecting data related to household composition, occupation, education, school participation, dwelling characteristics, assets, expenditures, food consumption, anthropometric measurements of women and children, and use of the Food for Education (FFE) system.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
rural finance
food security
Bangladesh
South Asia
Asia
 
Date 2010
 
Contributor KM, IFPRI
 
Type sample survey data (ssd)
 
Source The survey was administered by Bangladesh Food Policy Project (BFPP) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The funding for the survey was provided by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ).