Survey conducted by Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and the World Bank. The survey's main focus was to provide data for an analysis of three major credit programs (Grameen Bank, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, and the Rural Development-12 program of the Bangladesh Rural Development Board). 

It covered both villages from each of the programs under study as well as villages where no lending took place. The survey included 1,798 households randomly drawn from 87 villages of 29 thanas in rural Bangladesh. These households from 87 villages of 29 thanas were surveyed first in 1991/92, and then revisited in 1998/99.    Further details available

Note: The questionnaire components are PDF files; the datasets of survey results, by years, are compressed STATA (dta) files (zip format). We apologize for the poor quality of the older, scanned, documents.

Related publications:

• Khandker, Shahidur R. 2005. “Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data
  from Bangladesh,” World Bank Economic Review. Vol. 19, No. 3. pp. 1-25
  ______. 1998.
• Fighting Poverty with Microcredit: Experience in Bangladesh. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Khandker, Shahidur R. and Osman Chowdhury.  1996. “Targeted Credit Programs and
  Rural Poverty in Bangladesh.” World Bank Discussion Papers No. 336. Washington, D.C.
• Pitt, Mark M., Shahidur R. Khandker, Omar Haider Chowdhury, and Daniel L. Millimet. 2003. “Credit Programmes for the Poor and the Health Status of Children in Rural Bangladesh.” International Economic Review 44 (1): 87-118.
• Pitt, Mark M. and Shahidur R. Khandker. 2002. “Credit Programmes for the Poor and
  Seasonality in Rural Bangladesh.” Journal of Development Studies 39 (2): 1-24.
• Pitt, Mark M., Shahidur R. Khandker, Signe-Mary McKernan, and M. Abdul Latif. 1999. "Credir Programs for the Poor and Reproductive Behavior of Low-Income Countries: Are the Reported Causal Relationships the Result of Heterogeneity Bias?" Demography 36 (1): 1-21.
• Pitt, Mark M. and Shahidur R. Khandker. 1998. “The Impact of Group-Based Credit
  Programs on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter?” Journal of Political Economy 106(5):958–96.
• Pitt, Mark M. and Shahidur R. Khandker. 1996. “Household and Intrahousehold Impact of the Grameen Bank and Similar Targeted Credit Programs in Bangladesh.” World Bank Discussion Papers No. 320. Washington D.C.