The Survey on Investment from Remittance 2016
Bangladesh, 2016
BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS
Identification
idno
BGD-BBS-SIR-2016-v01
Title
The Survey on Investment from Remittance 2016
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Bangladesh | BGD |
Abstract
Currently, there are almost 8.6 million Bangladeshi migrants who are spread over the globe in different countries, and they are continuously sending large amount of remittance at home. About two million additional young people are added to the labour force every year but the country is unable to create jobs to accommodate all of them. Therefore, the outflow of Bangladeshi workers will continue until home economy can be capable to capture the supplementary labour forces. Remittance, as identified one of the two main drivers of growth by World Bank (World Bank, 2011), will continue play the important role in Bangladesh’s development process. Hence, it is very important to ensure the proper utilization of remittance. Accurate and reliable data can substantially help the policy-makers and planners to take the appropriate policy for ensuring productive use of remittance. Keeping this view in mind, the first round of the survey, the Survey on the Use of Remittance (SUR) 2013, covered the wider spectrum of remittance uses in order to create a benchmark database. Nevertheless, the survey uncovered many unfold stories regarding remittance uses together with expatriates characteristics and their socio-economic condition at home.
The present round has highlighted the investment dimensions of remittance recognizing the demand of the policy-makers for such information. How much of the remittance is directly invested in which sectors by the remittance receiving household are the major concerns of this survey. Alongside that, savings from remittance has duly been considered in the scope of the survey. Some salient features of the expatriates together with remittance recipients have also been taken into account under the study.
Objectives of the Survey
Main objective of the survey is to identify the proportion of investment that are directly invested from the remittance by the households at the micro level. Some other objectives are: to identify the nature of investments from the remittance, to estimate the share of savings in total remittance received, to find out the socio-demographic characteristics of expatriates, heads of remittance receiving households and remittance receiver, to provide supplementary information for national income accounting and to help the policymakers providing necessary information for policy formulation to attract more inflow of remittance.
The present round has highlighted the investment dimensions of remittance recognizing the demand of the policy-makers for such information. How much of the remittance is directly invested in which sectors by the remittance receiving household are the major concerns of this survey. Alongside that, savings from remittance has duly been considered in the scope of the survey. Some salient features of the expatriates together with remittance recipients have also been taken into account under the study.
Objectives of the Survey
Main objective of the survey is to identify the proportion of investment that are directly invested from the remittance by the households at the micro level. Some other objectives are: to identify the nature of investments from the remittance, to estimate the share of savings in total remittance received, to find out the socio-demographic characteristics of expatriates, heads of remittance receiving households and remittance receiver, to provide supplementary information for national income accounting and to help the policymakers providing necessary information for policy formulation to attract more inflow of remittance.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Version
Version Date
2016-06-06
Producers and sponsors
Authoring entity/Primary investigators
| Agency Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS | Statistics and Informatics Division, Ministry of Planning |
Funding Agency/Sponsor
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Statistics and Informatics Division | SID |
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
The entire country was taken as the universe and only Remittance Receiving Households (RRHHs) of the country were considered as the study population of the survey. Two-stage stratified random sampling technique was applied. Two lists prepared for conducting SUR 2013 were used as the sampling frame for this survey. One was the list of Primary Sampling Units (PSUs), the Enumeration Areas (EAs) of Population and Housing Census 2011, generated under Integrated Multipurpose Samples (IMPS) and the other was the list of 5 leading villages in each Upazila in terms of the adequacy of Remittance Receiving Households (RRHH) which were identified through a quick count of RRHHs in those villages. Seven Divisions were considered as seven separate stratum since SUR 2013 did not cover Mymensingh Division that was created after conducting that survey. At the first stage, the required number of RRHH-leading villages was selected for each of the divisions separately following Probability Proportional to Estimated Size (PPES), and the PSUs of IMPS were chosen applying Simple Random Sampling (SRS) technique. In the second stage, 20 RRHHs from each selected village as well as 20 RRHHs from selected PSUs of IMPS were chosen using systematic random sampling technique. Before selection of samples, listing of households for identifying the RRHHs was carried out in all selected villages and PSUs. A total of 10451 RRHHs were surveyed for data collection.
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
| Start date | End date |
|---|---|
| 2016-01 | 2016-12 |
Mode of data collection
Other [oth]
Type of Research Instrument
At first, the survey team developed the draft questionnaire as a basis for in-house consultation guided by the Project Director. This draft was extensively reviewed in a in-house meeting. It was revised accommodating the recommendations of the meeting. The revised draft was placed before a committee comprising of senior officials of BBS as members, and headed by the Director General, and the draft was further revised on the basis of their suggestions. Later, it was sent to the higher authorities to receive their views. Finally, the questionnaire was presented in the Technical Committee, the highest technical body of the project, for approval. The committee provided the approval of the questionnaire with some observations that were subsequently addressed. Eventually, the questionnaire was finalised.
Data Collectors
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Informatics Division | SID | Ministry of Planning |
Data Processing
Cleaning Operations
Data editing refers to the activity of checking and cleaning data that have already been collected from the field. In addition to the conventional method of data edition followed by BBS, a new technique was applied to ensure high quality of data. All filled-in questionnaires were primarily edited by some selected efficient supervising officers at all Divisional Statistics Offices under the leadership of Joint Directors (divisional heads) so that any flaw observed in data could be rectified instantly communicating with the data collector as well as respondents. After that, all questionnaires were brought to headquarters for further processing. A group of experienced staff of BBS under the supervision of the survey team edited all data manually once again, and made coding of some responses. An instruction manual with the editing and coding guidelines was also prepared, and editors and coders were provided training on the manual beforehand.
Data Appraisal
Data Appraisal
Tabulation
A tabulation plan first designed by the survey team was shared with the committee headed by the Director General of BBS in order to make it more user-friendly. The committee suggested some valuable modifications which were successively incorporated. Furthermore, the committee recommended to reshaping the report focusing the investment chapter at the beginning followed by savings. Additionally, the committee suggested to placing detailed methodology of the survey, characteristics of the expatriates and remittance receivers and other components as appendices in the report. Accordingly, the survey team followed the advice of the committee, finalised the structure of the report and ultimately, completed the tabulation plan.
Data Analysis
Survey results were analyzed in tabular form using STATA and SPSS software. Major variables, in terms of percentage, were explained vertically (columns) and cross tabulation by another related variables horizontally. In the analysis, variations of the magnitude of major variables were described by category and by division.
Data Dissemination
The final report has been disseminated both in electronic form such as CD and hard copy as book. Results are available in the website of BBS. Some data may also be published in other publications of BBS such as Statistical Year Book of Bangladesh, National Accounts Statistics and Monthly Statistical Bulletin etc.
A tabulation plan first designed by the survey team was shared with the committee headed by the Director General of BBS in order to make it more user-friendly. The committee suggested some valuable modifications which were successively incorporated. Furthermore, the committee recommended to reshaping the report focusing the investment chapter at the beginning followed by savings. Additionally, the committee suggested to placing detailed methodology of the survey, characteristics of the expatriates and remittance receivers and other components as appendices in the report. Accordingly, the survey team followed the advice of the committee, finalised the structure of the report and ultimately, completed the tabulation plan.
Data Analysis
Survey results were analyzed in tabular form using STATA and SPSS software. Major variables, in terms of percentage, were explained vertically (columns) and cross tabulation by another related variables horizontally. In the analysis, variations of the magnitude of major variables were described by category and by division.
Data Dissemination
The final report has been disseminated both in electronic form such as CD and hard copy as book. Results are available in the website of BBS. Some data may also be published in other publications of BBS such as Statistical Year Book of Bangladesh, National Accounts Statistics and Monthly Statistical Bulletin etc.
Metadata production
Document ID
DDI-BGD-BBS-SIR-2016-v01
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS | BBS | Statistics and Informatics Division, Ministry of Planning | Documentation of the study |
Date of Production
2019-09-01