Sampling and survey design of the Bangladesh long-term impact study

Abstract

This appendix describes the sampling and survey design of the longitudinal study on which the papers in this collection are based. Special attention is paid to the design of the treatment and comparison groups, tracking of households, and the integrated nature of the quantitative and qualitative phases in the 2006–2007 re-survey.

Keywords:

• Bangladesh
• long-term impact
• sampling
• survey design

Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and Department for International Development under their Joint Research Scheme (Award Number RES 167-25-0361). The authors thank Akhter Ahmed and Peter Davis for helpful comments on earlier draft of this paper.

Notes

1. Available from http://www.ifpri.org/dataset/chronic-poverty-and-long-term-impact-study-bangladesh. This website also contains links to all the working papers and project briefs produced by the study team.

2. See Table 3 and CPRC/DATA/IFPRI (2010). Davis and Baulch (2010) present an extended discussion of the lessons learned of the pros and cons of combining qualitative and quantitative methods in this way.