Rural Finance and Food Security Study in Bangladesh, 1994

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.

1994年于孟加拉国开展的农村金融与粮食安全调查（Rural Finance and Food Security survey），旨在探析基于群组的农村金融机构的形成逻辑与参与动因，以及参与此类机构对家庭资源配置、收入创造及食品与非食品消费的影响。本次调查包含社区与家庭两个层级：社区层级调研覆盖120个村庄；家庭层级调研则在5个塔那（thanas）下辖的7个村庄展开，共纳入350个家庭中的1181名个体。本研究涉及三家非政府组织（Non-governmental Organization, NGO）组建的信贷群组，分别为社会进步协会（Association for Social Advancement, ASA）、孟加拉国农村发展委员会（Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, BRAC）以及朗布尔-迪纳杰布尔农村服务机构（Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Services, RDRS）。家庭调研的受访者选取采用分层随机抽样方法，以家庭拥有土地量作为分层依据，且不考虑受访者是否参与非政府组织项目。家庭调研聚焦采集以下维度的数据：家庭构成、职业状况、受教育水平、学龄儿童入学参与情况、居住特征、资产存量、支出水平、食品消费状况、妇女与儿童的人体测量数据，以及教育粮食计划（Food for Education, FFE）系统的使用情况。