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Data Universe of Bangladesh's RMG Enterprises: Key Features and Limitations

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  • Khondaker Golam Moazzem
  • Marzuka Ahmad Radia

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In the backdrop of limited data on the key manufacturing sectors of Bangladesh, this paper reviews the data situation of the readymade garments (RMG) sector. Under the CPD-RMG Study, a database called ‘data universe’ of the RMG enterprises in Bangladesh has been prepared. While compiling data from available nine datasets of public and private organisations, a number of weaknesses were found which include incomprehensiveness, incompleteness and inconsistencies of the datasets. The study devised a unique analytical tool to identify the information of factories which are operational. It identified a total of 3,856 factories are in operation, with almost 3.6 million workers, of which about 53 per cent is female and 47 per cent is male workers. About 98 per cent of these enterprises are located in four districts: Dhaka (38 per cent), Gazipur (28.9 per cent), Chittagong (16.1 per cent) and Narayanganj (14.7 per cent). The study proposes to develop a comprehensive database for the RMG enterprises by including information on production, products, machineries, export markets, management professionals, foreign professionals, workers, workers’ organisations and compliance-related issues.

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  • Khondaker Golam Moazzem & Marzuka Ahmad Radia, 2018. "Data Universe of Bangladesh's RMG Enterprises: Key Features and Limitations," CPD Working Paper 123, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
    • Handle: RePEc:pdb:opaper:123
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