Background characteristics | Sample | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Women’s age (in years) | ||
15–19 | 920 | 17.9 |
20–24 | 1,885 | 35.2 |
25–29 | 1,379 | 25.8 |
30–49 | 1,115 | 21.0 |
Women’s educational level | ||
Not educated | 346 | 6.6 |
Primary | 1,477 | 27.6 |
Secondary | 2,534 | 48.9 |
Higher | 942 | 16.9 |
Women’s work status | ||
Not working | 3,337 | 63.1 |
Working | 1,962 | 36.9 |
Women’s mass media exposure | ||
No Exposure | 1,921 | 34.8 |
Exposure | 3,378 | 65.2 |
Women’s Body Mass Indexa | ||
Underweight | 821 | 17.7 |
Normal | 2,689 | 60.2 |
Overweight or Obese | 995 | 22.1 |
Partner’s education | ||
No Education | 804 | 15.0 |
Primary | 1,769 | 33.5 |
Secondary | 1,722 | 33.4 |
Higher | 1,004 | 18.1 |
Partner’s occupation | ||
Unemployed | 122 | 2.2 |
Professional/Technical/Managerial | 479 | 8.1 |
Sales | 994 | 18.2 |
Agricultural | 976 | 18.9 |
Services | 680 | 13.3 |
Skilled And Unskilled | 2,048 | 39.3 |
Women’s age at first birth (in years) | ||
< 18 | 2,152 | 41.7 |
18–20 | 2,004 | 38.0 |
21–24 | 841 | 15.1 |
≥ 25 | 302 | 5.1 |
Birth order | ||
First | 2,065 | 39.0 |
2nd order | 1,695 | 32.1 |
3 or more | 1,539 | 28.9 |
ANC visitsb | ||
No visit | 408 | 8.0 |
1–3 visits | 2,188 | 45.0 |
4 or more | 2,411 | 47.0 |
Multiple births | ||
Single | 5,190 | 98.0 |
Multiple | 109 | 2.0 |
Place of deliveryc | ||
Public | 803 | 15.4 |
Private | 1,845 | 84.7 |
Wealth quintile | ||
Poorest | 1,148 | 20.8 |
Poorer | 1,089 | 20.8 |
Middle | 954 | 19.1 |
Richer | 1,040 | 20.1 |
Richest | 1,068 | 19.3 |
Place of residence | ||
Urban | 1,814 | 26.7 |
Rural | 3,485 | 73.3 |
Division | ||
Barisal | 561 | 5.7 |
Chittagong | 886 | 21.3 |
Dhaka | 778 | 25.5 |
Khulna | 545 | 9.0 |
Mymensingh | 633 | 8.5 |
Rajshahi | 554 | 11.7 |
Rangpur | 580 | 10.4 |
Sylhet | 762 | 8.0 |
Total | 5,299 | 100.0 |