June 26 to July 7, 2011
Dhaka, Bangladesh

Data Sources, Uses, and Limitations in
Bangladesh
Learning: Trainees will become familiar with the available secondary sources of data on food security in Bangladesh. They will learn about the uses of the data depository as well as its limitations in analyzing various dimensions of food security in Bangladesh.

• data sources for food security analysis and mapping
 Household Income and Expenditure Survey
 Poverty Monitoring Survey
 Child Nutrition Survey
 Demographic and Health survey
 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
 Nutrition Surveillance Project, HKI/IPHN
• Bangladesh: National Household Survey Report on Food Secur ity
• metadata for national agricultural statistics
 major domains and selected indicators of agricultural statistics
 coverage, availability, data sources and responsible agencies
• Food Balance Sheets of the Food and Agriculture Organization
• application of the data sets
• limitations of the data sets

Data sources for food security analysis and mapping
 Household Income and Expenditure Survey
 Poverty Monitoring Survey
 Child Nutrition Survey
 Demographic and Health survey
 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
 Nutrition Surveillance Project, HKI/IPHN

Household Income and Expenditure Survey
 Household and Population
Characteristics
 Basic Needs Indicators
 Income and Expenditure
 Consumption of Food
 Measurement of Poverty
 Education
 Health
 Social Safety Nets
Programs
 Selected Community
Characteristics
New Features of 2010 HIES
Microcredit
Disability
Migration & Remittance and
Crisis Management ( Shocks & Coping)

Poverty Monitoring Survey
 Poverty Line and Poverty Incidence
 Household Income and
Expenditure
 Nutrition and Welfare
 Landownership and Occupation
 Household Characteristics
 Health, sanitation and
Education
 Credit
 Gender Dimension
 Expenditure Saving
 Crisis and Crisis Coping

Child & Mother Nutrition Survey
• Household characteristics
• Characteristics of Mothers
• Knowledge and Practicees on Child and
Maternal Care
• Child Nutrition Status
• Maternal Nutrition Status

Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey
• Household population and housing characteristics
• Characteristics of survey respondents
• Fertility
• Fertility regulation
• Other proximate determinants of fertility
• Fertility preferences
• Infant and child mortality
• Maternal and newborn health
• Child health
• Nutrition of children and women
• Hiv/aids-related knowledge, attitudes, and behavior
• Women’s empowerment and demographic and
• Health outcomes
• Domestic violence

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
(Monitoring the situation of children and women)
• Nutrition
• Child Health
• Environment
• Reproductive Health
• Child Development
• Education
• Child protection
• HIV/AIDS, Sexual Behaviour, and Orphaned and Vulnerable
Children

Poverty mapping methods
 Small area estimation
 Household unit level method
 Community level data method
 Multivariate weighted basic needs index
 Principal components
 Principal components over time
 Factor analysis
 Ordinary Least Squares
 Combination of qualitative information and secondary data
 Primarily qualitative
 Primarily secondary
 Statistical analysis of qualitative information combined with secondary data

Poverty
 Extrapolation of participatory approaches
 Direct measurement of household survey data
 Direct measurement of census data
 Income data
 Basic needs index
 Z scores

Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh / Statistical
Pocket Book of Bangladesh
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• General Features and Environment
• Area, Population, Household and Household Characteristics
• Labor and Manpower
• Agriculture: Crops, Livestock, Forestry and Fishery
• Industry
• Energy
• Transport and Communication
• Foreign Trade
• Finance Foreign and Banking, Co-operative and Credit Distribution
• Prices and wages
• National Income
• Education
• Health, Family planning and Social Statistics
• Consumption: Household Income and Expenditure

Bangladesh Household Food Security and Nutrition
Assessment Report 2009
The broad objective was: to analyze the impact of the food price hikes on food production and nutrition / health status, in order to suggest response options and recommendations
Specific objectives
• Aspects of food security & nutrition including food markets
• Household food access and food utilization
• Nutrition and health
• Water and sanitation
Survey conducted by:
 World Food Programme, UNICEF,
 Institute of Public Health Nutrition,
 Institute of Public Health Nutrition, MoHFW

METADATA FOR
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Major domains and selected indicators of agricultural statistics

METADATA FOR
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Major domains and selected indicators of agricultural statistics

METADATA FOR
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Major domains and selected indicators of agricultural statistics

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and
Responsible Agencies
Production

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and Responsible
Agencies
Production

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and Responsible
Agencies
Trade

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and Responsible
Agencies
Food Consumption

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and Responsible
Agencies
Fertilizer

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and Responsible
Agencies
Pesticides

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and Responsible
Agencies
Land Use

Coverage, Availability, Data Sources and Responsible
Agencies
Labour and Employment

Bangladesh: National Household Survey
Report on Food Security
 household profile
 household purchasing power
 household expenditure pattern
 food acquisition, distribution and consumption
 housing and facilities
 household health status
 food production
 level of community participation
 perception on food security indicators, and
 community problems.

The Food Balance Sheets of the Food and Agriculture
Organization: A Review of Potential Ways to Broaden the
Appropriate Uses of the Data
FAO suggests that the data may be used to:
 observe a country’s food supply and its trends
 compare food supply to nutritional requirements for healthy diets
 estimate supply/shortage measures evaluate food and nutrition policies
 measure the degree of chronic undernutrition
 examine changes in diet patterns
 investigate relationships between food supplies, famine, and malnutrition
 calculate self-sufficiency and import-dependency ratios
 set goals for trade and production and project future supply and demand.

Application of the data sets
 Research
 Monitoring and evaluation
 Policy options

Limitations of the data sets
 Formation of survey local committees
 Organization period of time
 Data collection and supervision of field work
 Data processing and dissemination
 Data validatity, Reliability and authenticity
 Timely availability of data sets