As of the beginning of July 2024 we are tracking 60 'Diarists'
So far we have collected 1,525,417 unique transaction records - every transaction that has taken place over 175,854 days in the lives of our diarists - comprising more than twenty million data points.
We have published several Reports, some Slide Presentaions, and numerous Blogs, all of them available for free on the Publications page. More will follow.
We started a new page in mid-November 2022 which is a Day-by-Day account of the activities of selected Diarists
We started a new page in mid-July 2023 which examines all the MFI loans our Diarists have ever taken
There is also a corona virus update page.
Md Kalimullah manages the project. He supervises a small team of data collectors who visit the Diarists daily. Their data is entered into a simple off-the-shelf accounting package and sent daily to Rutherford who lives in Japan. Rutherford reviews, queries and cleans the data daily. The result is a low-cost high-quality data set. The data can be had by emailing Rutherford at write.ser@gmail.com.
