Jiboner Itihash - Life histories from rural Bangladesh - জীবনের ইতিহাস

In 2007 SDRI coodinator Peter Davis led a team of researchers from DATA Bangladesh in conducting 293 life history interviews in eight districts of Bangladesh. The households selected were a subsample of a CPRC-IFPRI-DATA longitudinal study of poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh which covered a total of over 2000 households from 14 districts and has been running since 1994. With assistance from Louisa Frears and Rowena Janes, Peter is preparing (rewriting, anonymising and redrawing diagrams for publication) a set of life histories so that they can be used by other researchers. We are starting with 20 life histories which are available here.

All names of people and villages have been changed in the life histories to protect the anonymity of our research participants. District names remain unchanged.

More information on methods used to conduct the life histories.

Full Life Histories

ID	Name	Gender	Age	District	Household Size	Per Capita Expenditure	Wellbeing
14	Aleya	Female	47	Tangail District	4	662	3
7	Ali	Male	45	Tangail District	6	931	2
9	Amena	Female	54	Nilphamari District	3	860	2
19	Amena	Female	35	Manikganj District	5	783	2
15	Amin	Male	61	Kurigram District	2	1336	1
13	Habib	Male	52	Tangail District	4	662	3
2	Hera	Female	45	Manikganj District	4	979	2
8	Jahanara	Female	52	Jessore District	2	1454	2
4	Jorina	Female	40	Nilphamari District	3	602	1
16	Liton	Male	44	Manikganj District	5	783	2
12	Malek	Male	46	Cox's Bazar District	9	966	2
3	Monir	Male	46	Nilphamari District	6	1592	4
1	Ofiron	Female	25	Manikganj District	4	690	2
10	Rahela	Female	37	Jessore District	6	885	2
18	Rohima	Female	36	Kishoreganj District	7	773	2
5	Rubel	Male	47	Manikganj District	3	2166	3
11	Saleha	Female	25	Manikganj District	4	511	2
17	Selina	Female	38	Cox's Bazar District	5	1161	3
6	Shireen	Female	39	Manikganj District	3	2166	3
20	Sonia	Female	35	Manikganj District	4	1041	2