Background
Between August-October 2017, there was an influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar district near the southeastern tip of Bangladesh—more than doubling the population living in the area. There, they joined more than 200,000 Rohingya displaced over the previous 20 years. Currently, around 1 million Rohingya live in Bangladesh.
IFPRI conducted a study, “Food transfers, electronic food vouchers and child nutritional status among Rohingya children living in Bangladesh" to asses food transfers and child nutrition in Rohingya settlement camps.
Dataset Contents
This dataset is a cleaned subset of a household survey conducted in and around the Rohingya settlement camps in Southeastern Bangladesh. The dataset includes anthropometry of 523 children aged between 6 and 23 months in households receiving either a food ration consisting of rice, pulses, vegetable oil (362 children) or an e-voucher (161 children) that could be used to purchase 19 different foods.
In addition, this dataset also provides information on the characteristics of the mothers and the households in which they lived, including household demographics, consumption and expenditure, coping strategies, livelihoods and income profiles, and access to assistance.
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Researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners are invited to mine for insights using the openly-available dataset, which is stored on the Harvard Dataverse.