Socio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts - chtdf

HDRCSocio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts212.4 Variables and IndicatorsThe current baseline survey was designed to provide a comprehensive account of socioeconomiccharacteristics of the CHT population pertaining to UNDP-CHTDF’s currentprogram interventions. The measurable areas/objects and broader categories of variablesinclude: (a) demographic, (b) economic (income, consumption, savings, asset ownership), (c)social and cultural (literacy, health, water and sanitation, gender, women empowerment,VAW), (d) access to infrastructure facilities and services (power, energy and communicationincluding telecommunication), and (e) issues related to confidence building and peace treaty.It is to note that in devising variables and indicators, various pertinent documents of UNDP,the Bangladesh MDG Progress Report 2004, and Bangladesh Common Country Assessment2004 had been carefully consulted. A rigorous discussion was held at the inception workshopin Rangamati, and a number of brainstorming sessions were conducted with both indigenousand Bangalee community peoples and their leaders, knowledgeable people of CHT, andrelevant UNDP officials to finalize variables, indicators and data collection techniques. It wasenvisaged that as the outputs of the baseline survey, the estimates would be produced aimingat the needs to provide measurable impacts of the interventions on households andindividuals on the basis of precise socio-economic indicators. An account of the usedmeasurable areas/objects, broader categories of variables, measurable indicators, and meansof verification/sources of data/information have been presented below.Matrix 2.1: Variables and Indicators and Means of data collectionMeasurableareas/objectsBroadercategoriesof variablesMeasurable indicators (MI)DemographicAge-sex structure, household size, children ever born,fertility, migration (in and out), reasons for migration.Economic Occupation Prime and secondary occupation(s) and employmentof household members (by male-female).Income Gross, net, sources, by male-female of individuals andhousehold.Expenditure All items by food-nonfood (clothing, health,education), and recurrent-capital (household and bymale-female).Consumption Food items (identification of poverty level), foodsecurity status by month.Savings Savings and credit by amount, sources, and conditionsof credit.Social andculturalAssetownershipLiteracyHealth andhygieneWater andsanitationImmovable and movables.Overall and adult literacy, gross enrolment, dropouts,years of schooling by male-female, language ofbooks, medium of instruction.Knowledge on curial public health issues and practice(application of knowledge) by male-female. Healthcare practices, access to medically competentprovider/facility by diseases/ services type by malefemale,FP methods.Access to safe water and sanitation, hygieneknowledge and practice.Means ofverification/sources of data/informationSurvey, FGDSurveySurveySurveySurveySurvey,StakeholderconsultationSurveySurveySurvey, FGDSurvey, FGD,Stakeholderconsultation