Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 2015
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This is the second round of Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS). BIHS is the only nationally representative survey in Bangladesh that collects detailed data on (1) plot-level agricultural production and practices, (2) dietary intake of individual household members, (3) anthropometric measurements (height and weight) of all household members, and (4) data to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI). A community survey supplements the BIHS data to provide information on area-specific contextual factors. The BIHS covers 6500 households in 325 primary sampling units. The sample is statistically representative at following levels: (a) nationally representative of rural Bangladesh; (b) representative of rural areas of each of the seven administrative divisions of the country: Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Sylhet; and (c) representative of the Feed the Future (FTF) zone of influence. The first round of survey can be accessed here.
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United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
This is the community questionnaire of BIHS 2015.
This is the complete household questionnaire in English for BIHS 2015.
This is the household questionnaire of BIHS 2015 in Bangla for female enumerators.
This is the second 24-hour recall of food consumption of BIHS 2015 in Bangla for female enumerators.
This is the household questionnaire of BIHS 2015 in Bangla for male enumerators.
000_IFPRI-PRSSP_Description of the BIHS datasets.pdf
This file documents the sampling methodology of the survey.
This file contains data for “Module A: Sample Household Identification” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module A: Sample Household Identification” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module B1: Household Composition” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module B2: Education” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module B3: Schooling history” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module B3: Schooling history” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module B4: History of relocating to this area/district” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module C: Employment” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module C1: Agriculture based non-agriculture activities” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module D1: Current Household Assets” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module D2: Agricultural Implements and Other Productive Assets” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module E: Savings” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module F: Loans” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module G: Roster of Land and Pond/Water Bodies Owned or Under Operation” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H1: Agricultural Plot Utilization” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H2: Irrigation Method and Harvest” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H3: Usage of Agricultural Chemicals, Fertilizers and Pesticides” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H4: Rental Costs of Tools, Machinery and Draft Animals” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H5: Labor Used by Gender for Crop Plantation and Harvesting” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H6: Post Harvest Labor, Animal and Tools/Machinery Usage” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H7: Fertilizer, Seed, and Pesticides Price in Different Crop Seasons” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H7a: Labor cost” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H8: Location of Purchase/Rent of Animals, Tool/Machineries, Agricultural Labor, Fertilizer, Pesticides” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module H9: Additional information on Guti urea” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module I1: Summary of Agriculture Production (Crops, Fruits and Vegetables)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module I2: Food Grain Stock and Storage Capacity” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module I2: Food Grain Stock and Storage Capacity (continued)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module I3: Non-plot food production both inside and outside homestead” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module I4: Seedling/seedbed production cost” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module I5: Access to technologies” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module J1: Access to Agriculture Extension Services” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module J1a: Access to livestock and fisheries extension services” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module J2: Government Agriculture Input Subsidy Card Related Information” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module K1: Livestock and Poultry” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module K2: Livestock and Poultry Products” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module K3: Expenditure for Livestock and Poultry Production” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module L1: Fish/Shrimp” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module L2: Fish/Shrimp Pond Production and Inputs” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module M1: Marketing of Paddy, Rice, Banana, Mango, and Potato” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module M2: Marketing of Livestock, Jute, Wheat, Pulses, Fish, Fruits, Vegetables etc.” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module N: Non-Agricultural Enterprises” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module O1: Non-Agricultural Enterprises” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module O2: Household Food Inventory on the Day of Survey” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module O3: Purchase, Home Production and Other Sources (7 day recall)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module P1: Non-Food Expenditure Monthly Recall” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module P2: Non-Food Expenditure Annual Recall” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Q: Housing” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module R: Sanitation and Water” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module S: Access to Facilities” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module T1: Negative Shocks” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module T2: Positive Economic Events” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module U: Participation in Social Safety Net Programs” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module V1: Profile of Current Migrants (Domestic and International)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module V2: Remittance In” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module V3: Remittance Out” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module V4: Other Income Household” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module VM-1: Short Trip (household head only)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module VM-2: Short trips and mobile phone use during trips” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module W1: Anthropometry” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module W3: Health” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module W4: Illness” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module W5: Short-lived illness (for last 4 weeks)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module X1: Household Food Consumption” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module X1: Household Food Consumption” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators. This was a second recall of 24 hour food consumption for approximately 10% of the original households.
This file contains data for “Module X2: Intra-Household Food Distribution” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module X2: Intra-Household Food Distribution” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators. This was a second recall of 24 hour food consumption for approximately 10% of the original households.
This file contains data for “Module X3: Household Food Security” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module X4: Bad time (keeping income in mind)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Y1: Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices and Use of Micronutrients” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “ModuleY2: Nutrition Knowledge of Respondent Mothers” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Y3: Awareness-Trial-Adoption of Sentinel Practices” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Y4: Immunization and Health Status of Young Children (<2 Years)” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Y5: Nutrition Related Prenatal Care During Pregnancy with the Youngest Child” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Y6: Access to Community Nutrition Centre (CNC) and Use of NNP Services for Children <2 Years” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Y7: NNP Services Usage by Children under 2 Years of Age” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Y8: Exposure to Nutrition Information from Health Workers and Media” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Z1: Work Earnings and Expenses” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Z2: Mobility” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Z3: Reproductive Decisions” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Z4: Domestic Violence, Abuse and Threats” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module Z5: Wife’s Assets that had been brought to Marriage” from the BIHS questionnaire for the households interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WA: Individual Identification” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WA: Individual Identification” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE2: Dimension 1- Role in Household Decision-Making Around Production and Income Generation” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE2: Dimension 1- Role in Household Decision-Making Around Production and Income Generation” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3A: Access to Productive Capital” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3A: Access to Productive Capital” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3B: Agricultural Extension” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3B: Agricultural Extension” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3C: Income” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3C: Income” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3D: Access to loans” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE3D: Access to loans” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE4: Individual Leadership and Influence in the Community” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE4: lndividual Leadership and Influence in the Community” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE5a: Decision Making” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE5a: Decision Making” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE5B: Motivation for decision-making” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE5B: Motivation for decision-making” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE5C: Decision-making” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE5C: Decision-making” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE6A: Time Allocation” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE6A: Time Allocation” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE6B: Satisfaction with time Allocation” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Module WE6B: Satisfaction with time Allocation” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for “Modules WE7A, WE7B and WE7C: Voter information, Parent’s information and Parda information” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by male enumerators.
This file contains data for “Modules WE7A, WE7B and WE7C: Voter information, Parent’s information and Parda information” from the BIHS questionnaire for the household members interviewed by female enumerators.
This file contains data for respondent’s identification (cover page): gender, age and occupation of the respondent.
This file contains data for questions in module CB: infrastructure, access to facilities and GPS coordinates of the facilities.
This file contains data for questions in module CC: information about agricultural inputs (irrigation, fertilizer, seed and pesticides).
This file contains data for questions in module CD: access to health care and health facilities in village, private and govt. clinic, dispensary or pharmacy and GPS coordinates.
This file contains data for questions in module CE: Informal credit sources in the community.
This file contains data for questions in module CF: Education facilities available in community and GPS coordinates.
This file contains data for questions in module CG: NGO services and Development Programs available in community.
This file contains data for questions in module CI: Safety Net Programs services received in last 12 month.
This file contains data for questions in module CK: Normal daily wages in the village both Agriculture and non-agriculture labor by gender.
This file contains data for questions in module K1: Current prices of some agricultural (food) commodities in the village.
This file contains data for questions in module K2: Current prices of some non-food commodities in the village.
This file documents all the data files and supporting documents contained in this study.