Household Socioeconomic and Livelihood Dataset of Fishermen and Non-Fishermen in Chalan Beel, Bangladesh

This dataset contains household-level survey data collected from fishermen and non-fishermen communities in the Chalan Beel area of Bangladesh. The cleaned dataset includes 282 household observations and 77 questionnaire-based variables. The target/grouping variable is community, with 141 fishermen households and 141 non-fishermen households. The variables cover demographic characteristics, education, employment, income, housing, sanitation, water source, electricity access, women’s household participation, welfare access, livelihood diversification, migration, food security, health, treatment choices, community development role, and social or cultural participation. The dataset is suitable for socioeconomic comparison, livelihood analysis, data-driven community studies, and machine-learning benchmark validation.