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Microcredit and Health Services Experiment in Bangladesh (ICPSR 35904)

Released/updated on: 2015-06-03

Geographic coverage: Bangladesh

This project is a 4-celled factorial experiment that tests the relative effects of separately and jointly introducing micro-credit and essential health services package interventions on women's empowerment, economic well-being of the family and use of preventive health services in groups of villages within 64 unions (unions are the political unit above a village and composed of 10-20 villages) in central Bangladesh. Baseline and follow-up surveys of samples of 3900 households (over-sampling of poor households) with about the same number of ever-married women are interviewed in the 4 areas and the interventions are carried out in the 2.7 interim years. The follow-up survey is mostly in the same clusters as the baseline so the same women are interviewed, allowing longitudinal analyses. A fraction of the new clusters in each study arm are sampled as well to permit assessment of a potential "testing" effect of the baseline survey.

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Research on Early Life and Aging Trends and Effects (RELATE): A Cross-National Study (ICPSR 34241)

Released/updated on: 2015-05-07

Geographic coverage: Argentina, Puerto Rico, United States, Uruguay, China (Peoples Republic), England, Ghana, India, Russia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Netherlands, Bangladesh, Barbados, Taiwan, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, Indonesia

Time period: 1996-01-01--2008-12-31

The Research on Early Life and Aging Trends and Effects (RELATE) study compiles cross-national data that contain information that can be used to examine the effects of early life conditions on older adult health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, functionality, mortality, and self-reported health. The complete cross sectional/longitudinal dataset (n=147,278) was compiled from major studies of older adults or households across the world that in most instances are representative of the older adult population either nationally, in major urban centers, or in provinces. It includes over 180 variables with information on demographic and geographic variables along with information about early life conditions and life course events for older adults in low, middle and high income countries. Selected variables were harmonized to facilitate cross national comparisons.

In this first public release of the RELATE data, a subset of the data (n=88,273) is being released. The subset includes harmonized data of older adults from the following regions of the world: Africa (Ghana and South Africa), Asia (China, India), Latin America (Costa Rica, major cities in Latin America), and the United States (Puerto Rico, Wisconsin). This first release of the data collection is composed of 19 downloadable parts: Part 1 includes the harmonized cross-national RELATE dataset, which harmonizes data from parts 2 through 19. Specifically, parts 2 through 19 include data from Costa Rica (Part 2), Puerto Rico (Part 3), the United States (Wisconsin) (Part 4), Argentina (Part 5), Barbados (Part 6), Brazil (Part 7), Chile (Part 8), Cuba (Part 9), Mexico (Parts 10 and 15), Uruguay (Part 11), China (Parts 12, 18, and 19), Ghana (Part 13), India (Part 14), Russia (Part 16), and South Africa (Part 17).

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) was also used in the compilation of the larger RELATE data set (HRS) (N=12,527), and these data are now available for public release on the HRS data products page. To access the HRS data that are part of the RELATE data set, please see the collection notes below.

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Influences of Women's Empowerment on Marriage and Violence in Bangladesh (ICPSR 35858)

Released/updated on: 2015-05-01

Geographic coverage: Bangladesh

This study uses qualitative data to examine young women's relationships with their mothers and mothers-in-law to understand how these relationships foster empowerment in the younger generation or fail to do so. These data consist of ethnographic interviews with 20 triads of women - young married women, their mothers and their mothers-in-law.