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Social Dynamics of Short-Term Variability in Key Measures of Household and Community Wellbeing in Rural Bangladesh

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

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Title Social Dynamics of Short-Term Variability in Key Measures of Household and Community Wellbeing in Rural Bangladesh
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HBQQVE
 
Creator International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Department of Environmental Studies, New York University
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description More frequent data collection, especially when coupled with shorter recall periods, may produce more inclusive reporting, improved capture of intra-seasonal variability, and earlier signals of events that may merit policy or other forms of development intervention. Although there have been survey efforts that have collected a small number of data from rural households on the moderately high basis, to date there have been no significant efforts to collect a broad range of data from rural households with high frequency. The data included in this study was collected through the smartphone-based data collection technique that allowed participants to submit data at various frequencies and with various recall periods, thereby permitting the analysis of the relative merits of more frequent data streams. This study captured data from 480 farmers of northwestern Bangladesh over approximately one year of continuous data on key measures of household and community well-being that could be particularly useful for the design and evaluation of development interventions and policies. While the data discussed here provide a snapshot of what is possible, we also highlight their strength for providing opportunities for interdisciplinary research in the household agricultural production, practices, seasonal hunger, etc., in a low-income agrarian society.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
data collection
surveys
agricultural production
extension activities
inputs
consumption
shock
BANGLADESH
SOUTH ASIA
ASIA
 
Language English
 
Date 2016
 
Contributor IFPRI-KM
Bell, Andrew R. (Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, USA)
Ward, Patrick S. (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China)
Tamal, Md. Ehsanul Haque (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Killilea, Mary E. (Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, USA)
Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
 
Type sample survey data (SSD)