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Occupation, Earnings and Expenditure of the Daily Wage-based and Salaried Workforce in Farm and Nonfarm Sectors: Data from Bangladesh

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Title Occupation, Earnings and Expenditure of the Daily Wage-based and Salaried Workforce in Farm and Nonfarm Sectors: Data from Bangladesh
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/11529/10548580
 
Creator Mottaleb, Khondoker
 
Publisher CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network
 
Description At present nearly half of the world’s population is under some form of government restriction to curb the spread of COVID-19, an extremely contagious disease. In Bangladesh, in the wake of five deaths and 48 infections from COVID-19, between March 24 and May 30, 2020 the government imposed a nationwide lockdown. While this lockdown restricted the spread of COVID-19, in the absence of effective support, it can generate severe food and nutrition insecurity for daily wage-based workers. Of the 61 million employed labor force in Bangladesh, nearly 35% of them are paid on a daily basis. This study examines the food security and welfare impacts of the COVID-19 induced lockdown on daily wage workers both in the farm and nonfarm sectors in Bangladesh. Using information from more than 50,000 respondents complied from 2016-17 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) in Bangladesh, this study estimates daily wage rates as Bangladesh Taka (BDT) 272.2 in the farm sector and BDT 361.5 in the nonfarm sector. Using the estimated daily wages earnings, this study estimates that a one-day complete lockdown generates a US$64.2 million equivalent economic loss only considering the wage loss of the daily wage workers. After estimating the daily per capita food expenditure separately for farm and nonfarm households, this study estimates a minimum compensation package for the daily wage-based farm and nonfarm households around US $ 1 per day per household to ensure minimum food security for the daily wage-based worker households.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
Occupation
Agriculture
Agricultural workers
Income
Households
Surveys
Bangladesh
 
Language English
 
Date 2020
 
Contributor Garza Sánchez, Enrique
CRP Maize
CRP Wheat
Socioeconomic Program (SEP)
 
Type Survey data
 
Source Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data collected by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)