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年于孟加拉国开展农村金融与粮食安全调查（Rural Finance and Food Security survey），旨在分析基于群组的农村金融机构的组建与参与的决定因素，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。本次调查包含社区层面与家庭层面两类调研：社区层面调查覆盖120个村庄；家庭层面调查则在5个塔那（thanas）的7个村庄内，对350户家庭中的1181名个体开展了调研。本次研究涵盖了由3家非政府组织（NGOs）组建的信贷群组，分别为社会进步协会（Association for Social Advancement, ASA）、孟加拉国农村进步委员会（Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, BRAC）以及兰普尔-迪纳杰布尔农村服务机构（Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Services, RDRS）。家庭调查的受访对象采用分层随机抽样法选取，以家庭土地持有量作为分层依据，且不考虑其是否参与非政府组织项目。家庭调查主要采集以下维度的数据：家庭构成、职业状况、受教育水平、入学情况、住房特征、资产情况、支出水平、食品消费、妇女与儿童的人体测量数据，以及教育粮食换购（Food for Education, FFE）体系的使用情况。