Shodagor longitudinal health and demography project
The Shodagor Longitudinal Health and Demography Project (SLHDP), established and directed by Kathrine Starkweather, works with boat-dwelling and recently-settled Shodagor communities in Matlab, Bangladesh. The field team has been collecting longitudinal demographic, reproductive, and anthropometric data, as well as economic and childcare data since 2017. We regularly conduct focus groups and open-ended interviews, and have collected cross-sectional social network data.
Funding for data collection has come from the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the National Science Foundation.