Bangladesh icddr,b Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System
icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh)
The longest-running health and demographic surveillance system in the global South, operating since 1966 in Matlab, Bangladesh, tracking births, deaths, migrations, marriages, and divorces across a rural population of approximately 220,000. Matlab HDSS is a member of the INDEPTH network and serves as a research platform for health and demographic studies in developing country contexts.
Category
Research database
Access
By application
Region
Asia — Bangladesh
Coverage
Matlab, Bangladesh, rural population ~220,000
Size
220,000 population, data since 1966
License / terms
Research partnership access
Data types
vital events, mortality, fertility, migration, health events, demographic surveillance