SVRS 2017

Report on
Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017
June 2018
ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা

BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS
STATISTICS AND INFORMATICS DIVISION (SID), MINISTRY OF PLANNING
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE‘S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH
DHAKA, BANGLADESH
Report on
Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017
June 2018

BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS
STATISTICS AND INFORMATICS DIVISION (SID), MINISTRY OF PLANNING
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE‘S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH
DHAKA, BANGLADESH
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Report on
Bangladesh SampleVital Statistics 2017
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Minister
Ministry of Planning
Government of the People‘s Republic of Bangladesh
Message
I am delighted to learn that Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is going to publish the report on
Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017 generated through a continuous data collection system under the
Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS).
The SVRS of BBS is generating reliable demographic data to monitor the progress of the indicators
of Seventh Five Year Plan and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), socio-economic development and
sectoral plans relating to Population and Health. SVRS collects data on births, deaths, marriages, divorce,
migration, disability, HIV Aids, Uses of Contraceptives and other key demographic indicators on a regular
basis and publish reports annually.
The findings of the SVRS-2017 indicate very positive improvement in Demographic and Health
condition of the people of the country over the years. The SVRS-2017 findings will be useful in allocating
resources in the health and population sector prioritizing the disadvantaged areas.
I would like to express my thanks to Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division and Direcor
General, BBS along with all concerned who rendered valuable support in conducting the survey and
preparing this report.
Dhaka, June 2018 AHM Mustafa Kamal, FCA, MP

State Minister
Ministry of Finance
and
Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Message
I am happy to see that the report on Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017 prepared by the
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) of the Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) of the Govt. of
Bangladesh is now being published.
SVRS is a continuous data collection system on demographic parameters like birth, death, marriage, divorce,
migration, disability and contraceptive prevalence rate of our population. Information collected under SVRS
is needed for monitoring the progress of national plans and policies in general and the state of health and
population of Bangladesh in particular.
I take this opportunity to thank Secretary, Statistics and Informatics Division and Director General,
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics for their hard work in conducting the field operation, data processing and
preparation of this report. Thanks are also due to the members of the Steering Committee and Technical
Committee of the project for providing administrative and technical support.
Demographic data is a prerequisite for monitoring the progress of health and population of the country and
SDG indicators related to health. Continuous data collection and timely dissemination serves this function
well and BBS is performing this duty efficiently and effectively which deserves special appreciation.
I hope this report will be useful to the planners, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders for proper
population planning of the country.
Dhaka, June 2018 M.A. Mannan MP

Principal Secretary
Prime Minister‘s Office
Govt. of the People‘s Republic of Bangladesh
Message
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is the National Statistical Organisation (NSO) of the country.
According to the Statistical Act, 2013, the major responsibilities of BBS are to conduct national censuses &
surveys to provide official statistics of Bangladesh. Sample Vital Registrations System (SVRS) is a
significant and popular survey system which is being conducted regularly by BBS under the programme
Sample Vital Registrations System (SVRS) to meet the inter censal data needs on demographic indicators
such as annual Natural Growth Rate (NGR), Crude Birth Rate (CBR), Crude Death Rate (CDR), Total
Fertility Rate (TFR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Under Five Mortality Rate (U 5MR), Maternal Mortality
Ratio (MMR) etc.
Bangladesh is committed to achieve Vision 2021 and Vision 2041 as well as Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) by 2030 under the visionary leadership of Hon‘ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The survey
findings enable us to monitor some selected indicators of the SDGs for Bangladesh. Moreover, these
indicators will guide policy makers and planners in preparing and implementing pertinent socio-
demographic development agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). My sincere thanks are due to
the Director General, BBS and his colleagues for their relentless efforts in bringing out this report. Mr. A K
M Ashraful Haque, Project Director, MSVSB Project and Joint Director, BBS deserves special thanks for
bringing out this report in time. I hope that the Report on Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017 will be
useful for policy makers and planners.
In closing, I like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Saurenrda Nath Chakrabhartty, Secretary in charge,
Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), Ministry of Planning for inviting me to write a message for
Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017.
Dhaka, June 2018 Md. Nojibur Rahman

Secretary
Statistics and Informatics Division (SID)
Government of the People‘s Republic of
Bangladesh
Message
Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS) is a fundamental element for National Statistical System. I
am happy to know that the final report of the Sample Vital Registration System 2017 is going to be
published in the first half of 2018. SVRS is a regular survey system of Bangladesh Bureau of
Statistics (BBS) which is being implemented under the project Monitoring the Situation of Vital
Statistics of Bangladesh (MSVSB) 2nd phase to meet the intercensal data needs for demographic
indicators and vital statistics such as Annual Natural Growth Rate (NGR), Crude Birth Rate (CBR),
Crude Death Rate (CDR), Total Fertility Rate (TFR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Under Five
Mortality Rate (U5MR), Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) etc for the wide ranges of users. It may be
noted that Civil Registration System (CRS) is the main source of information for generating vital
statistics in any country. In the absence of a complete CRS in Bangladesh, BBS has been generating
vital statistics through SVRS since long and the coverage has been increased over the years to provide
reliable estimate at the sub national level. BBS is also working to establish a linkage to Civil
Registration (CR) with vital statistics production so that CR data can be used as a source of vital
statistics gradually to provide key vial statistics for the smallest geographic areas.
Bangladesh is committed to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The survey
findings enable us to monitor most of the selected indicators of SDGs for Bangladesh. Moreover,
these indicators will guide policy-makers and planners in preparing and implementing pertinent socio-
demographic development agenda for SDGs.
I take the opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to Director General of BBS Mr. Md. Amir
Hossain, Deputy Director General of BBS Mr. A.B.M Arshad Hossain , Additional Secretaries of
Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), Mr. Bikash Kishore Das, Ms. Mahmuda Akter and Mr. A B
M Zakir Hossain and to Prof. M. Nurul Islam of Dhaka University & Consultant of MSVSB project
for their intellectual and technical inputs in preparing this report. All members of the Steering
Committee and Technical Committee and the project team of MSVSB led by Mr. A K M Ashraful
Haque, Project Director deserve special thanks for their relentless efforts in bringing out the report of
2017 in the 1st half of 2018.
I hope this report will be useful to planners, policy-makers, development partners and researchers to
prescribe appropriate policy measures for achieving SDGs. Any constructive suggestions and
comments from the users for improvement of the report will be most welcome.
Dhaka, June 2018 Saurenrda Nath Chakrabhartty

Director General
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)
Statistics and Informatics Division (SID)
Government of the People‘s Republic of
Bangladesh
Foreword
Monitoring the Situation of Vital Statistics of Bangladesh (MSVSB) Project is a regular surveillance system of
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) to determine the annual population change at national and sub-national
levels. The objective is to collect, compile and publish demographic data to meet the inter censual data (10
years) needs in the area of Population and Demography. Over the years, the vital registration system has been
improved. Sample coverage has also been increased to a large extent.
The report on Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017 is based on the vital events such as births, deaths,
marriages, divorce, migration etc. occurred during 2017. I am grateful to all the Local Registrars, Supervisors,
Officers for their field work and supervision to ensure quality data. The working team headed by Mr. A K M
Ashraful Haque, Project Director, deserves special appreciation for bringing out this report rapidly and timely.
This reduction of time lag of disseminating SVRS report deserves special appreciation.
I would like to express my special thanks and profound gratitude to the Secretary, Statistics and Informatics
Division and members of the Technical Committee for their guidance in bringing out this report.
Finally, I hope that this report will be useful to the policy-makers, planners, researchers, development partners
and other stakeholders. Suggestions and comments for further improvement will be highly appreciated.
Md. Amir Hossain

Dhaka, June 2018 (Additional Secretary)
Monitoring the Situation of Vital Statistics
of Bangladesh (MSVSB) Project
A Note from the Project Director

Sample Vital Registration System
Sample Vital Registration System was introduced by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in 1980 to
determine the annual population change during inter-censal period. Initially its coverage was 103
primary sampling units (PSUs) each comprising of about 250 contiguous households. Out of 103
PSUs, 62 PSUs were from rural and 41 PSUs were from urban area. To meet the data need of planners
and policy makers and other users to have robust estimate, the number of sample PSUs was raised to
210 PSUs in 1983. This could provide estimate at the division level. At the same time its scope was
raised with inclusion of marriage and migration Schedules. Considering the importance of the project
it was transferred to revenue set up of BBS in 1991. At that time district (zila) became the focal point
of development. To meet the users demand for district (zila) estimate number of sample PSUs was
again raised to 500 in 1995. The scope of the survey was also enhanced with the addition of a new
module on contraceptive use. A household card was introduced for updating of household and
population information. With the availability of the sampling frame from the latest Population Census
2011 the sample design was recasted. An Integrated Multi-purpose Sample Design was introduced
with effect from 1st July 2002 and the number of PSU‘s increased to 1000 to provide the estimate of
vital events at the district level.
Dual Record System
To obtain data from field with extensive verification and to provide a better coverage of vital events
Chandra Sekar and Deming Dual Recording System has been introduced from the beginning. Under
system-1 there is a local registrar for each PSU who used to collect data about stipulated vital events
as it occurs and record it in the specified schedule and then send the filled-in schedules to the
headquarters according to the time table set for each schedule. Under system-2 another set of
enumerators (called supervisors) from the Upazila Statistical Offices visit the PSUs on a quarterly
basis and collect retrospective data on all the events. The filled-in schedules obtained from both the
systems are coded and matched at the headquarters and re-investigation is done where needed. After
the cross verification of data estimates are prepared and published using the Chandra Sekar and
Deming Technique.
Schedule
To systematize collection of data from the field, a list of the schedules used which isprovided below:
Schedule1: House listing Schedule7: Out-migration
Schedule2: Household card Schedule8: In-migration
Schedule3: Birth Schedule9: Contraceptive use
Schedule4: Death Schedule 10: Disability
Schedule 5: Marriage Schedule 11: HIV/AIDS
Schedule6: Divorced/Separated
Objective of the Project
To strengthen the Sample Vital Registration System in Bangladesh a project was undertaken in 2000
by the BBS. Two new schedules – one on divorce and separation and the other on disability were
introduced.
The specific objectives of the project were –
(i) To develop an IMPS on the basis of Population Census 2001 sampling frame
considered with 1000 PSUs so that reliable estimates on vital events such as birth,
death, marriage, migration, contraceptive use, disability, divorce and separation can
be produced at the zila level with urban- rural break- up;
(ii) To review and revise the schedules where necessary;
(iii) To provide extensive training to the local registrars and the upazila supervisors so that
reliable data are collected and sent to headquarters in time;
(iv) To identify the causes of migration in the national, zilas, urban and rural level in
Bangladesh.
(v) To prepare the report on the basis of IMPS in time.
The project was completed in June 2007. In continuation of this project another phase of the project
started from July 2007 for further strengthening the system. Under the new project the whole gamut of
activities of the project has further been revitalized. A new project entitled Monitoring the Situation of
Vital Statistics of Bangladesh was undertaken with effect from July 2012 in order to provide better
and reliable estimates of population changes and vital statistics at district level and number of PSUs
was increased from 1000 to 1500 under newly formed IMPS design based on Population Census
2011. Data collection from 1500 PSUs was started from July 2013, till 2014. Both 2015, 2016 & 2017
round of data collection have been based on 2012 PSUs.
Statistical Techniques of Data Processing and Analysis
Collection of data from the field was conducted over a period of one month. Local Female Registrars
and Supervisors submitted their filled in schedule to the District Statistical Office. The DSOs
submitted the schedules to the head office in Dhaka. Then data were edited and coded in the head
quarter following a pre-designed editing and coding guidelines. Data processing and tabulation have
been done in the computer section of the project.
In presenting and computation various rates and ratios in this report, we have followed standard
demographic and statistical procedures. In most instances, up dated versions of UN manuals, standard
textbooks, journals and other demographic literatures and in some cases online materials have also
been used. The operational definitions of various terms and variables employed in the report have
been provided in the appendix.
Dhaka, June 2018 A K M Ashraful Haque

Contents
Key Findings of Sample Vital Registration System, 2017 ....................................................xxv
Executive Summary .......................................................................................................... xxxvii
Sample Design and Survey Implementation ..............................................................................1
1.1 Background ............................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Coverage of the Sample ............................................................................................................ 1
1.3 Survey Schedule ........................................................................................................................ 2
1.4 Data Collection.......................................................................................................................... 3
1.5 Consistency Check .................................................................................................................... 5
1.6 Quality Control ......................................................................................................................... 5
1.7 Quality of Age Data .................................................................................................................. 5
1.8 Estimates of Missed Events in SVRS 2017 .............................................................................. 5
1.9 Confidence Interval ................................................................................................................... 6
Household Characteristics and Population Composition ...........................................................7
2.1 Household Composition ............................................................................................................ 7
2.2 Household Headship ................................................................................................................. 8
2.3 Household Facilities ................................................................................................................ 10
2.3.1 Sources of Drinking Water ........................................................................................... 11
2.3.2 Sources of Fuel ............................................................................................................. 12
2.3.3 Sources of Light ........................................................................................................... 12
2.3.4 Toilet Facility ............................................................................................................... 12
2.3.5 Economic Solvency ...................................................................................................... 12
2.3.6 Structure of Living House and Living Space ............................................................... 13
2.4 Age-sex Composition of the Household Population ............................................................... 13
2.4.1 Quality of Age-Sex Reporting...................................................................................... 15
2.5 A Few More Population Compositions and Household Characteristics ................................ 18
2.5.1 Sex Composition .......................................................................................................... 18
2.5.2 Dependency Ratio ........................................................................................................ 18
2.5.3 Child-Woman Ratio ..................................................................................................... 18
2.5.4 Religious Composition ................................................................................................. 19
2.5.5 Literacy Rate ................................................................................................................ 19
2.6 Sex Ratio ................................................................................................................................. 20
2.7 Marital Status Composition..................................................................................................... 20
2.8 Educational Attainment ........................................................................................................... 22
2.9 Population Composition and Household Characteristics: 2004–2017 .................................... 25
2.9.1 Age Structure................................................................................................................ 25
2.9.2 Sex Ratio ...................................................................................................................... 26
2.9.3 Dependency Ratio ........................................................................................................ 26
2.9.5 Religious Composition ................................................................................................. 26
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2.9.6 Literacy Rate ................................................................................................................ 26
2.9.7 Household Size ............................................................................................................. 26
2.9.8 Headship Status ............................................................................................................ 26
2.9.9 Household Structure ..................................................................................................... 27
2.9.10 Sources of Water ........................................................................................................ 27
2.9.11 Sources of Light ......................................................................................................... 27
2.9.12 Use of Fuel ................................................................................................................. 27
2.9.13 Economic Solvency .................................................................................................... 27
2.9.14 Toilet facilities............................................................................................................ 27
Fertility.....................................................................................................................................31
3.1 Measures of Fertility ............................................................................................................... 31
3.1.1 Crude Birth Rate........................................................................................................... 31
3.1.2 General Fertility Rate ................................................................................................... 32
3.1.4 Age-Specific Fertility Rates ......................................................................................... 33
3.1.5 Total Fertility Rate ....................................................................................................... 34
3.1.6 Gross Reproduction Rate and Net Reproduction Rate ................................................. 35
3.1. 7 Marital Fertility Rate ................................................................................................... 35
3.2 Trends in Fertility: 1982-2017 ................................................................................................ 38
Mortality ..................................................................................................................................45
4.1 Measures of Mortality ............................................................................................................. 45
4.1.1 Crude Death Rate ......................................................................................................... 45
4.1.2 Age-Specific Death Rates ............................................................................................ 46
4.2 Early Childhood Mortality ...................................................................................................... 48
4.2.1 Infant Mortality ............................................................................................................ 49
4.2.3 Neo-natal Mortality Rate .............................................................................................. 50
4.2.4 Post-Neo-natal Mortality Rate...................................................................................... 51
4.2.5 Child Mortality Rate..................................................................................................... 52
4.2.6 Under-5 Mortality Rate ................................................................................................ 52
4.3 Maternal Mortality .................................................................................................................. 53
4.4 The Life Table ......................................................................................................................... 54
4.5 Causes of Death....................................................................................................................... 57
4.5.1 Major Causes of Death ................................................................................................. 58
4.5.2 Causes of Deaths among Infants .................................................................................. 58
4.5.3 Causes of Deaths among Under–5 Children ................................................................ 59
4.5.4 Causes of Deaths at Old Ages ...................................................................................... 59
4.5.5 Causes of Maternal Deaths ........................................................................................... 60
4.6 Trends in Mortality: 1982-2017 .............................................................................................. 60
4.6.1 Crude Death Rate ......................................................................................................... 60
4.6.2 Childhood Mortality ..................................................................................................... 61
4.6.3 Maternal Mortality Ratio .............................................................................................. 62
4.6.4 Expectation of Life at Birth .......................................................................................... 63
Marriage and Marriage Dissolution .........................................................................................69
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5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 69
5.2 Crude Marriage Rate ............................................................................................................... 69
5.3 General Marriage Rate ............................................................................................................ 71
5.4 Age-Specific Marriage Rate .................................................................................................... 72
5.5 Average Age at Marriage ........................................................................................................ 73
5.5.1 Mean Age at First Marriage ......................................................................................... 73
5.5.2 Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM) .................................................................. 74
5.5.3 Mean and Median Age at Marriage (MAM) ................................................................ 74
5.6 Marriage Dissolution: Divorce and Separation ....................................................................... 75
5.6.1 Crude Divorce Rate and Crude Separation Rate .......................................................... 76
5.6.2 Divorce–Marriage Ratio ............................................................................................... 76
5.6.3 General Divorce Rate (GDR) ....................................................................................... 76
5.6.4 Age-Specific Divorce Rate........................................................................................... 77
5.6.5 Crude Separation Rate .................................................................................................. 77
5.6.6 General Separation Rate ............................................................................................... 78
5.6.7 Age-Specific Separation Rate ...................................................................................... 78
5.7 Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Separation: 2004-2017 ....................................................... 79
Contraceptive Usage ................................................................................................................83
6.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 83
6.2 Current Use of Contraception ................................................................................................. 83
6.3 Ever Use of Contraception ...................................................................................................... 85
6.4 Method-Specific Use ............................................................................................................... 86
6.5 Contraceptive Method-Mix ..................................................................................................... 86
6.6 Trends in Contraceptive Use: 2005-2017................................................................................ 87
Internal Migration ....................................................................................................................91
7.1 Migration Rate ........................................................................................................................ 91
7.2 Age–Specific Migration Rates ................................................................................................ 92
7.3 Causes of Out-Migration ......................................................................................................... 94
Disability ..................................................................................................................................97
8.1 Level of Disability................................................................................................................... 97
8.3 Intensity of Disability.............................................................................................................. 99
8.3 Types and Causes of Disability ............................................................................................. 100
HIV/AIDS Related Knowledge and Attitudes .......................................................................103
9.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 103
9.2 Level of Knowledge .............................................................................................................. 103
9.2.1 Awareness of HIV/AIDS............................................................................................ 104
9.2.2 Knowledge on Mode of Transmission of HIV/AIDS................................................. 105
Zila Table ...............................................................................................................................107
Supplementary Tables ............................................................................................................109
Operational Definitions of Indicators ....................................................................................116
Composition of Steering Committee .....................................................................................119
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Composition of Technical Committee ...................................................................................120
Survey Team ..........................................................................................................................121
Schedules ...............................................................................................................................123
Abbreviation ..........................................................................................................................144
References ..............................................................................................................................145
List of Tables
Table 1.1: Allocation of SVRS PSUs and households by domains of study, 2017 ...................2
Table 1.2: Completeness of registration of births and deaths (in percent), SVRS 2017 ...........4
Table 1.3: Estimates of births and deaths as recorded through dual record system, standard
error of the estimates and 95 percent confidence interval, SVRS 2017 ....................................5
Table 1.4: Confidence intervals for some major indicators, SVRS 2017 ..................................6
Table 2.1: Percent distribution of sample households by household size, residence and
religion, SVRS 2017 ..................................................................................................................8
Table 2.2: Percent distribution of sample households by size and division, SVRS 2017 .........8
Table 2.3: Percent distribution of household headship by sex, administrative division and
religion, SVRS 2017 ..................................................................................................................9
Table 2.4: Percentage distribution of household characteristics by residence and geographic
division, SVRS 2017................................................................................................................10
Table 2.5: Distribution of households by type of structure of living house and by locality,
SVRS 2017...............................................................................................................................13
Table 2.6: Percent distribution of sample population by age and sex, SVRS 2017 ................14
Table 2.7: Percent distribution of sample population by age, sex and residence, SVRS 201717
Table 2.8: Percent distribution of sample population by age, sex and division, SVRS 2017..17
Table 2.9: A few more characteristics of the Household population, SVRS 2017 ..................19
Table 2.10: Sex ratios (percent) by residence and divisions, SVRS 2017 ...............................20
Table 2.11: Marital status by residence and geographic division, SVRS 2017 .......................21
Table 2.12: Marital status by age and sex, SVRS 2017 ...........................................................21
Table 2.13: Marital status by age and residence, SVRS 2017: Males .....................................22
Table 2.14: Marital status by age and residence, SVRS 2017: Females..................................22
Table 2.15: Literacy rate of population 5+ years by broad age group sex and residence, SVRS
2017..........................................................................................................................................23
Table 2.16: Literacy rate of population 7+ years by broad age group sex and residence, SVRS
2017..........................................................................................................................................24
Table 2.17: Educational attainment of the household population, SVRS 2017: Males ...........24
Table 2.18: Educational attainment of the household population, SVRS 2017: Females .......25
SVRS 2005–2017.....................................................................................................................27
Table 3.1: Crude birth rate, general fertility rates and child-woman ratios, SVRS 2017 ........32
Table 3.2: ASFRs derived from births during last 12-month period by residence, SVRS 2017
..................................................................................................................................................33
Table 3.3: Age-specific fertility rates by geographic division, SVRS 2017............................34
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Table 3.4: TFR and GRR by residence, division and religion, SVRS 2017 ............................35
Table 3.5: Age-specific marital fertility rates, SVRS 2017 .....................................................36
Table 3.6: Place of birth by division, 2017 ..............................................................................37
Table 3.7: Birth attendent by residence, 2017 .........................................................................37
Table 3.8: Birth to adoloscent women by residence and current age 2017 .............................37
Table 3.9: Birth to adoloscent women by division and current age 2017 ................................37
Table 3.10: Still birth rate (per 1000 live births) by residence and division, SVRS 2017 ......37
Table 3.11 Trends in fertility as observed in the SVRS area, 1982–2017 ...............................38
Table 4.1: Crude death rate per 1000 population by background variables, SVRS 2017 .......45
Table 4.2: Age specific death rates (ASDR) by residence, SVRS 2017..................................46
Table 4.3: Age-specific death rate (ASDR) per 1000 population by division, SVRS 2017 ....48
Table 4.4: Sub-divisions of death by intervals.........................................................................49
Table 4.5: Infant mortality rates per 1000 live births by sex and background characteristics,
SVRS 2017...............................................................................................................................50
Table 4.6: Neo-natal mortality rates (NMR) per 1000 live births by background
characteristics, SVRS 2017 ......................................................................................................50
Table 4.7: Post Neo-natal mortality rates per 1000 live births by background characteristics,
SVRS 2017...............................................................................................................................51
Table 4.8: Child death rates (1-4 years) by background characteristics, SVRS 2017 .............52
Table 4.9: Under- 5 mortality rate per 1000 live births by background characteristics, SVRS
2017..........................................................................................................................................53
Table 4.10: Age-specific maternal mortality ratio by background characteristics, SVRS 2017
..................................................................................................................................................54
Table 4.11: Abridged life table for males, SVRS 2017 ...........................................................55
Table 4.12: Abridged life table for females, SVRS 2017 ........................................................55
Table 4.13: Abridged life table for both sexes combined, SVRS 2017 ...................................56
Table 4.14: Deaths rates per 1000 population from top 15 causes by residence, SVRS 2017 57
Table 4.15: Percentage of causes of death from top15 causes by residence, SVRS 2017.......58
Table 4.16: Percentage distribution of infant deaths due to 10 top causes by residence, SVRS
2017..........................................................................................................................................58
Table 4.17: Percentage distribution of under-5 mortality by causes and residence, SVRS 2017
..................................................................................................................................................59
Table 4.18: Major 15 causes of deaths of elderly persons (60 years and over) by residence,
SVRS 2017...............................................................................................................................59
Table 4.19: Distribution of causes of maternal mortality, SVRS 2017 ...................................60
Table4.20: Maternal mortality ratio by causes per 1000 live births, SVRS 2017 ...................60
Table 4.21: Trends in crude death rates for Bangladesh, SVRS 1982-2017 ...........................61
Table 4.22: Trends in childhood mortality rates, SVRS 2001-2017........................................61
Table 4.23: Trends in maternal mortality ratio per 1000 live births, SVRS 1986–2017 .........62
Table 4.24: Trends in expectation of life at birth by sex, SVRS 1981–2017 ..........................63
Table 5.1: Crude and general marriage rates per 1000 population by background
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Table 5.2: Age-specific marriage rates per 1000 population by sex and residence, SVRS 2017
..................................................................................................................................................72
Table 5.3: Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM), mean age at first marriage (MAM) and
median age at first marriage and by sex and background characteristics, SVRS 2017 ...........74
Table 5.4: Percent distribution of the age at marriage by previous marital status, ..................75
SVRS 2017: Males...................................................................................................................75
Table 5.5: Percent distribution of the age at marriage by previous marital status, ..................75
SVRS 2017: Females ...............................................................................................................75
Table 5.6: Crude divorce rate, divorce-marriage ratio and general divorce rate by background
Table 5.7 Age-specific divorce rates by sex and residence, SVRS 2017 ................................77
Table 5.8 Crude separation rates and general separation rates (aged 15+) by sex and
residence, SVRS 2017 .............................................................................................................78
Table 5.9: Age-specific separation rate by sex, SVRS 2017 ...................................................79
Table 5.10: Trends in indicators of marriage, divorce and separation, SVRS 2005-2017 ......79
Table 6.1: Current use of contraceptive methods among the currently married women by
background characteristics, SVRS 2017 ..................................................................................84
Table 6.2: Ever use of contraceptive methods among the married women by background
Table 6.3.Method-specific contraceptive use rate among currently married women by age,
SVRS 2017...............................................................................................................................86
Table 6.4: Contraceptive method mix (%) by background characteristics, SVRS 2017 .........87
Table 6.5: Trends in current use of contraceptive methods (%), SVRS 2005–2017 ...............88
Table 7.1: Migration rates per 1000 population by sex and selected background
Table 7.2: Age -specific migration rates per 1000 population by sex, SVRS 2017 ................92
Table 7.3: Age-specific migration rates per 1000 population by sex, SVRS 2017 .................93
Table 7.4: Age-specific migration rates per 1000 population by sex, SVRS 2017 .................93
Table 7.5: Causes of in and out-migration by sex, SVRS 2017 ..............................................94
Table 8.1: Disability rate per 1000 population by sex and background characteristics, SVRS
2017..........................................................................................................................................98
Table 8.2: Disability rates per 1000 population by age and sex, SVRS 2017 .........................99
Table 8.3: Intensity, type and causes of disability by background characteristics, SVRS 2017
................................................................................................................................................100
Table 9.1: Awareness of respondent about HIV/AIDS by background characteristics, SVRS
2017........................................................................................................................................104
Table 9.2: Knowledge of mother-to-child HIV transmission by background characteristics,
SVRS 2017.............................................................................................................................105
Table A1: TFR, CBR, GFR, CDR, IMR, U5MR, CPR, Disability and Mean age at first
marriage by Zila, SVRS 2017 ................................................................................................107
Table 2A. Population in SVRS area, SVRS 2017 ..................................................................109
Table 2B: Distribution of out- migrants by age and causes of migration for males, SVRS
2017........................................................................................................................................109
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Table 2C: Distribution of out- migrants by causes of migration and age for females, SVRS
2017........................................................................................................................................110
Table 2D: Distribution of out-migrants by causes of migration and age for both sexes, SVRS
2017........................................................................................................................................110
Table 2E: Distribution of in- migrants by causes of migration and age for males, SVRS 2017
................................................................................................................................................110
Table 2F: Distribution of in- migrants by causes of migration and age for females, SVRS
2017........................................................................................................................................111
Table 2G: Distribution of in- migrants by causes of migration and age for both sexes, SVRS
2017........................................................................................................................................111
Table 2H: Out- migration rates per 1000 population by sex and direction, SVRS 2017 ......112
Table 2I: Distribution of out-migrants by sex, causes and direction, SVRS 2017 ................112
Table 2J: In-migration rates per 1000 population by sex and direction, SVRS 2017 ...........114
Table 2 K: Distribution of in-migrants by sex, causes and direction, SVRS 2017................114
খানার জনসংখ্যা সংক্রান্ত তথ্য.............................................................................................126
List of Graphs
Figure 2.1: Age –sex pyramid of SVRS population, SVRS 2017 ...........................................15
Figure 2.2: Graph showing the age-sex distribution of SVRS population in single years,
SVRS 2017...............................................................................................................................16
Figure 2.3: Trends in sex ratios, SVRS 2003-17 .....................................................................29
Figure 2.4: Trends in dependency ratios, SVRS 2003-17 .......................................................29
Figure 2.5: Trends in child-women ratios, SVRS 2003-17 .....................................................30
Figure 2.6: Trends in headship status, SVRS 2003-17 ............................................................30
Figure 3.1: Age-specific fertility rates by urban rural residence, SVRS 2017 ........................34
Figure 3.2 Crude birth rate (CBR) per 1000 population by locality, SVRS 2002-2017..........39
Figure 3.3 Trends in GFR, SVRS 2002–2017 .........................................................................39
Figure 3.4 Trends in TFR, SVRS 2002–2017..........................................................................39
Figure 3.5 Trends in GRR, SVRS 2002–2017.........................................................................40
Figure 3.6 Trends in NRR, SVRS 2002–2017.........................................................................41
Figure 4.1: Age specific death rates (ASDR) by residence, SVRS 2017 ................................47
Figure 4.2: Age specific death rates (ASDR) by sex, SVRS 2017 ..........................................47
Figure 4.3: Expectation of life by age and sex, SVRS 2017....................................................56
Figure 4.4: Life table survivors by age and sex, SVRS 2017 ..................................................57
Figure 4.5: Maternal mortality ratio, SVRS 2002-2017 ..........................................................63
Figure 4.6: Trends in expectation of life at birth by sex, SVRS 2002–2017 ...........................63
Figure 5.1: Crude marriage rates by geographic divisions, SVRS 2017 .................................71
Figure 5.2: Age specific marriage rates by sex, SVRS 2017 ...................................................73
Figure 6.1: Trends in current use of contraception by locality, SVRS 2017 ...........................88
Figure 7.1: In-migration rates per 1000 population, SVRS 2002-2017 ...................................95
Figure 7.2: Out- migration rates per 1000 population, SVRS 1984-2017 ...............................95
Figure 8.1: Age pattern of disability by sex, SVRS 2017 ........................................................99
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List of Maps
Map 3.1: Crude birth rate (CBR) by Zila, SVRS 2017 ............................................................42
Map 3.2: General fertility rate (GFR) by Zila, SVRS 2017.....................................................43
Map 3.3: Total fertility rate (TFR) by Zila, SVRS 2017 .........................................................44
Map 4.1: Crude death rate (CDR) by Zila, SVRS 2017 ..........................................................65
Map 4.2: Infant mortality rate (IMR) by Zila, SVRS 2017 .....................................................66
Map 4.3: Under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) by Zila, SVRS 2017 ..............................................67
Map 5.1: Mean age at first marriage of male by Zila, SVRS 2017 .........................................81
Map 5.2: Mean age at first marriage of female by Zila, SVRS 2017 ......................................82
Map 6.1: Current usage of contraception by Zila, SVRS 2017 ...............................................89
Map 8.1: Disability rates (per 1000 population) by Zila, SVRS 2017 ..................................102
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Key Findings of Sample Vital Registration System, 2017
Indicators 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
1. National Population (Estimated)
Population(in million) : July 1
Both Sexes 162.7 160.8 158.9 156.8 154.7
Male 81.4 80.5 79.6 78.6 78.3
Female 81.3 80.3 79.3 78.2 76.4
Intercensal Growth Rate 1.37* 1.37* 1.37* 1.37* 1.37*
2. Number of PSUs
Total 2012 2012 2012 1500 1500
Rural 1077 1077 1077 801 801
Urban 935 935 935 699 699
3. Sample population
Total 1252581 957913 939530 696170 694434
Male 627068 479446 470488 348901 351690
Female 625513 478467 469042 347269 342744
Population by Broad Age-groups (percent)
Both Sexes
00-14 29.3 30.8 30.8 31.7 32.3
15-49 54.4 53.6 53.7 52.6 53.2
50-59 8.3 8.1 7.8 7.9 7.3
60+ 8.0 7.5 7.7 7.8 7.3
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Male
00-14 29.5 30.9 31.3 32.3 32.8
15-49 54.1 52.8 52.5 51.9 51.8
50-59 8.2 8.2 8.0 7.7 7.4
60+ 8.2 8.1 8.2 8.1 8.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Female
00-14 29.2 30.7 30.2 31.1 31.6
15-49 54.8 54.5 55.0 53.3 54.4
50-59 8.3 7.9 7.6 8.1 7.4
60+ 7.7 6.9 7.2 7.5 6.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
4. Population Characteristics
Rate of Natural Increase 1.34 1.36 1.37 1.37 1.37
Sex Ratio (M/F*100) 100.2 100.3 100.3 100.5 102.6
Dependency Ratio (percent)
Total 53 54 55 57 58
Rural 57 58 59 60 61
Urban 47 49 49 50 50
Child Woman Ratio (per 1000 women aged 15-49)
Total 310 320 325 355 356
Rural 336 347 350 367 367
Urban 279 289 290 319 320
Population Density (per sq. km) 1103 1090 1077 1063 1049
5. Fertility
Crude Birth Rate (per 1000 population)
Total 18.5 18.7 18.8 18.9 19.0
Rural 20.4 20.9 20.3 19.4 19.3
Urban 16.1 16.1 16.5 17.2 18.2
*Based on the population census of 2001 and 2011
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Indicators 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Age Specific Fertility Rates (per 1000 women in the age group)
15-19 75 78 75 83 60
20-24 134 132 137 144 152
25-29 105 107 105 110 113
30-34 59 58 56 48 54
35-39 26 26 25 25 30
40-44 7 7 9 7 8
45-49 3 3 3 4 5
Total Fertility Rate (per woman aged 15-49)
Total 2.05 2.10 2.10 2.11 2.11
Rural 2.37 2.38 2.30 2.22 2.19
Urban 1.68 1.68 1.72 1.77 1.84
General Fertility Rate (per 1000 women aged 15-49)
Total 68 69 69 71 71
Rural 78 79 77 75 73
Urban 56 57 57 60 63
Gross Reproduction Rate (per woman aged 15-49)
Total 1.02 1.02 1.05 1.05 1.02
Rural 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.09 1.06
Urban 0.84 0.84 0.88 0.91 0.92
Net Reproduction Rate (per woman aged 15-49)
Total 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.04 1.01
Rural 1.09 1.10 1.10 1.08 1.04
Urban 0.80 0.80 0.84 0.90 0.91
6. Mortality
Crude Death Rate (per 1000 population)
Total 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.2 5.3
Rural 5.7 5.7 5.5 5.6 5.6
Urban 4.2 4.2 4.6 4.1 4.6
Infant Mortality Rate (per 1000 live births)
Total
Both sexes 24 28 29 30 31
Male 25 27 30 31 32
Female 23 28 28 28 31
Rural
Both Sexes 25 28 29 31 34
Male 27 26 31 32 35
Female 23 28 28 29 33
Urban
Both Sexes 22 28 28 26 26
Male 22 28 29 29 24
Female 23 28 28 22 28
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (per 1000 live births)
Total
Both Sexes 17 19 20 21 20
Male 18 18 20 22 22
Female 17 20 20 19 21
Rural
Both Sexes 17 19 20 21 23
Male 18 17 21 22 24
Female 16 19 19 20 22
Urban
Both Sexes 17 20 20 19 16
Male 17 20 19 21 15
Female 18 20 22 16 18
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Post-Neo-natal Mortality Rate (per 1000 live births)
Total
Both Sexes 7 9 9 9 11
Male 7 9 10 9 10
Female 6 8 8 9 10
Rural
Male 9 9 10 9 11
Female 7 9 9 9 11
Urban
Male 5 8 10 8 9
Female 5 8 6 6 10
Child Death Rate (per 1000 children aged 1-4 years)
Both Sexes 1.8 1.8 2.0 2.0 2.2
Male 2.1 2.1 2.3 1.8 2.3
Female 1.6 1.6 1.7 2.3 2.1
Under 5 Mortality Rate (per 1000 live births)
Total
Both Sexes 31 35 36 38 41
Male 32 35 39 38 42
Female 29 34 34 37 40
Rural
Both Sexes 33 36 39 40 43
Male 36 36 42 40 45
Female 31 35 35 40 41
Urban
Both Sexes 27 32 32 30 35
Male 27 32 33 34 30
Female 27 33 31 26 39
Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 1000 live births)
Total 1.72 1.78 1.81 1.93 1.97
Rural 1.82 1.90 1.91 1.96 2.11
Urban 1.57 1.60 1.62 1.82 1.46
7. Life Expectancy at Birth
Expectation of Life at birth (Years)
Both Sexes 72.0 71.6 70.9 70.7 70.4
Male 70.6 70.3 69.4 69.1 68.8
Female 73.5 72.9 72.0 71.6 71.2
8. Nuptiality
Crude marriage rate (per 1000 population)
Total 14.6 14.3 13.0 12.9 13.0
Rural 18.1 17.7 14.9 14.3 13.0
Urban 10.2 10.1 10.2 8.3 12.8
Marital Status of Population Aged 10+ (percent)
Male
Never Married 38.6 39.0 38.6 39.0 39.5
Currently Married 59.9 59.4 59.7 59.9 59.4
Widowed/ Divorced/ Separated 1.5 1.5 1.7 1.1 1.1
Female
Never Married 26.2 26.3 26.1 25.5 26.5
Currently Married 63.3 63.5 64.1 65.4 65.0
Widowed/Divorced/Separated 10.5 10.1 9.8 9.1 8.5
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Indicators 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Mean Age at First Marriage
Male
Total 25.1 25.2 25.3 24.9 24.3
Rural 24.5 24.7 24.8 24.7 24.1
Urban 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.4 24.6
Female
Total 18.4 18.4 18.4 18.3 18.4
Rural 17.9 17.9 18.0 18.1 18.2
Urban 19.7 19.6 19.4 19.4 18.9
Mean Age at Marriage
Male
Total 26.2 26.3 26.4 25.9 25.2
Rural 25.7 25.8 25.9 25.7 25.0
Urban 27.3 27.4 27.2 27.1 25.8
Female
Total 18.8 18.8 18.7 18.5 18.6
Rural 18.3 18.3 18.3 18.3 18.5
Urban 19.9 19.9 19.8 19.7 19.1
Singulate Mean Age at Marriage
Male
Total 25.6 25.7 25.8 25.4 25.5
Rural 25.0 25.1 25.3 25.2 25.2
Urban 26.4 26.5 26.5 26.0 26.2
Female
Total 20.3 20.3 20.3 20.0 20.0
Rural 19.7 19.7 19.8 19.7 20.0
Urban 21.2 21.1 21.0 20.8 20.1
Median Age at Marriage
Male
Total 25 25 25 24 24
Rural 25 24 25 24 24
Urban 26 27 27 26 25
Female
Total 18 18 18 18 18
Rural 18 18 18 18 18
Urban 19 19 19 19 19
9. Internal Migration
Migration Rate (Per 1000 population)
In-migration Rate 73.8 76.7 54.2 40.2 39.9
Rural In-migration 37.8 39.5 30.7 29.4 31.7
Rural to Rural 32.7 34.5 25.6 24.3 26.6
Urban to Rural 5.0 5.0 5.1 5.1 5.1
Urban In-migration 119.4 123.0 90.0 77.1 68.1
Rural to Urban 30.3 30.3 29.5 28.2 27.2
Urban to Urban 90.2 92.6 60.5 48.9 40.9
Out-migration Rate 74.3 78.5 54.4 43.1 40.4
Rural out-migration 43.5 47.5 35.1 34.0 31.7
Urban out-migration 113.3 117.2 83.8 74.4 70.5
10. Contraceptive Usage
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (percent)
Total 62.5 62.3 62.1 62.2 62.4
Rural 59.4 59.3 60.4 61.6 61.8
Urban 66.3 65.9 64.5 64.5 64.1
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Indicators 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate by Method
Any Method 62.5 62.3 62.1 62.2 62.4
Modern Method 59.2 58.4 58.4 58.4 60.0
11. Disability
Crude Disability Rate (per 1000 population)
Both Sexes 8.9 9.0 8.8 9.0 9.0
Male 9.8 9.8 9.6 9.9 9.7
Female 8.0 8.3 8.0 8.2 8.2
12. HIV/AIDS
Percent who know at least one mode of transmission 68.8 66.9 66.1 61.5 61.6
of HIV/AIDS from mother to child
Percent who know all modes of transmission of HIV/ 33.5 29.1 25.8 21.0 18.5
AIDS from mother to child
13. Household Characteristics
Household Size 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.4
Headship (Percent)
Male Headed HH 85.8 87.2 87.3 87.8 88.4
Female Headed HH 14.2 12.8 12.7 12.2 11.6
Access to Water (percent)
Drinking (Tap & Tube well) 98.0 98.0 97.9 97.8 97.5
Source of Light (percent)
Electricity 85.3 81.2 77.9 67.8 66.9
Solar 5.8 5.6 5.4
Kerosene 8.8 13.0 16.3 31.4 32.3
Others 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 0.8
Toilet Facility (percent)
Sanitary 76.8 75.0 73.5 63.5 63.3
Others 20.6 22.3 23.2 34.4 34.5
None 2.6 2.7 3.3 2.1 2.2
14. Literacy
Literacy Rate of Population 7+ yrs (percent)
Total
Both Sexes 72.3 71.0 63.6 58.6 57.2
Male 74.3 73.0 65.6 60.7 59.3
Female 70.2 68.9 61.6 56.6 55.1
Rural
Both Sexes 66.5 65.5 57.2 55.2 53.9
Male 68.6 67.7 59.2 57.2 55.1
Female 64.4 63.3 55.1 53.1 51.9
Urban
Both Sexes 79.5 77.7 73.3 70.5 68.6
Male 81.5 79.6 75.3 72.6 70.9
Female 77.5 75.8 71.2 68.4 66.2
Adult Literacy Rate of Population 15+ yrs (percent)
Total
Both Sexes 72.9 72.3 64.6 61.4 61.0
Male 75.7 75.2 67.6 64.7 64.2
Female 70.1 69.5 61.6 58.2 57.8
Rural
Both Sexes 66.1 65.4 57.6 57.4 57.0
Male 69.0 68.4 60.6 60.7 60.2
Female 63.2 62.4 54.6 54.1 53.9
Urban
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Indicators 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Both Sexes 81.1 80.7 74.7 74.6 74.1
Male 83.8 83.3 77.7 77.7 77.3
Female 78.4 77.9 71.8 71.5 70.9
15. Religious Composition
Religious Composition (percent)
Muslim 88.4 88.4 88.2 89.2 89.1
Others 11.6 11.6 11.8 10.8 10.9
16. National Population (Estimated): 1st January 2018 (in million)

Both Sexes 163.65
Male 81.91
Female 81.74
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রনবভয঱ীরতায অনু঩াত (Dependency Ratio) (঱তকযা)
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*Based on the population census of 2001 and 2011
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(Crude Birth Rate)
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(Crude Death Rate)
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৮ ৯ ৯ ৯৬
শ ৫৭ ৬ ৬ ৭৭ ৪৬
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৭ ৬ ৫ ৪ ৩
৭ (Life Expectancy at Birth)
শ
৭ ৭ ৬ ৭ ৯ ৭ ৭ ৭ ৪
৭ ৬ ৭ ৩ ৬৯ ৪ ৬৯ ৬৮ ৮
৭৩ ৫ ৭ ৯ ৭ ৭ ৬ ৭
৮ , (Nuptiality)
স্থুর রফফাদ঴য ঴ায (প্ররত ঴াজায জন঳াংখ্যা)
৪৬ ৪৩ ৩ ৯ ৩
৮ ৭৭ ৪৯ ৪৩ ৩
শ ৮৩ ৮
জন঳াংখ্যায বফফার঴ক অফস্থা (১০ + ফছয ফ৞঳) (঱তাাং঱)
পুরুল
অরফফার঴ত ৩৮ ৬ ৩৯ ৪ ৩৮ ৬ ৩৯ ৩৯ ৫
৫৯ ৯ ৫৯ ৫৯ ৭ ৫৯ ৯ ৫৯ ৪
রফ঩ত্নীক / তারাক প্রাপ্ত/ রফরিন্ন ৫ ৪ ৭
ভর঴রা
অরফফার঴ত ৬ ৬৯ ৬ ৫৫ ৬৫
৬৩ ৩ ৬৩ ৬৪ ৬৫ ৪ ৬৫
রফ঩ত্নীক / তারাক প্রাপ্ত/ রফরিন্ন ৫ ৯৮ ৯ ৮৫
১ভ রফফাদ঴য গড় ফ৞঳ (Mean Age at First Marriage)
পুরুল
৫ ৫ ৫৩ ৪৯ ৪৩
৪৫ ৪৭ ৪৮ ৪৭ ৪
শ ৬ ৬৩ ৬৪ ৬৪ ৪৬
৮৪ ৮৪ ৮৪ ৮৩ ৮৪
৭৯ ৭৯ ৮ ৮ ৮
শ ৯৭ ৯৬ ৯৪ ৯৪ ৮৯
Mean Age at Marriage)
পুরুল
৬ ৬৩ ৬৪ ৫৯ ৫
৫৭ ৫৮ ৫৯ ৫৭ ৫
শ ৭৩ ৭৪ ৭ ৭ ৫৮
৮৮ ৮৮ ৮৭ ৮৫ ৮৬
৮৩ ৮৩ ৮৩ ৮৩ ৮৫
শ ৯৯ ৯৯ ৯৮ ৯৭ ৯
(Singulate Mean Age at Marriage)
পুরুল
৫৬ ৫৭ ৫৮ ৫৪ ৫৫
৫ ৫ ৫৩ ৫ ৫
শ ৬৪ ৬৫ ৬৫ ৬ ৬
৩ ৩ ৩
৯৭ ৯৭ ৯৮ ৯৭
শ ৮
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৭ ৬ ৫ ৪ ৩
(Median Age at Marriage)
পুরুল
৫ ৫ ৫ ৪ ৪
৫ ৫ ৫ ৪ ৪
শ ৬ ৬ ৭ ৬ ৫
৮ ৮ ৮ ৮ ৮
৮ ৮ ৮ ৮ ৮
শ ৯ ৮ ৯ ৯ ৯
৯ ) (Internal Migration)
In-Migration Rate) 73.8 ৭৬ ৭ ৫৪ ৪ ৩৯ ৯

Rural In-migration) 37.8 ৩৯ ৫ ৩ ৭ ৯৪ ৩ ৭
32.7 ৩৪ ৫ ৫৬ ৪৩ ৬৬
শ 5.0 ৫ ৫ ৫ ৫
শ Urban In migration) 119.4 ৩ ৯ ৭৭ ৬৮
শ 30.3 ৩ ৩ ৯৫ ৮ ৭
শ শ 90.2 ৯ ৬ ৬ ৫ ৪৮ ৯ ৪ ৯
(Out-Migration Rate) 74.3 ৭৮ ৫ ৫৪ ৪ ৪৩ ৪ ৪
43.5 ৪৭ ৫ ৩৫ ৩৪ ৩ ৭
শ 113.3 ৭ ৮৩ ৮ ৭৪ ৪ ৭ ৫
Contraceptive
Prevalence Rate)
৬ ৫ ৬ ৩ ৬ ৬ ৬ ৪
৫৯ ৪ ৫৯ ৩ ৬ ৪ ৬ ৬ ৬ ৮
শ ৬৬ ৩ ৬৫ ৯ ৬৪ ৫ ৬৪ ৫ ৬৪
(Contraceptive Prevalence Rate by Method)

৬ ৫ ৬ ৩ ৬ ৬ ৬ ৪
৫৯ ৫৮ ৪ ৫৮ ৪ ৫৮ ৪ ৬
Disability)
(Crude Disability Rate ) (
৮৯ ৯ ৮৮ ৯ ৯
৯৮ ৯৮ ৯৬ ৯৯ ৯৭
৮ ৮৩ ৮ ৮ ৮
৬৮ ৮ ৬৬ ৯ ৬৬ ৬ ৫ ৬ ৬
শ
৩৫ ৫ ৯ ৫৮ ৮৫
শ
৩ শ
খানায আকায ৪ ৪৩ ৪৪ ৪৩ ৪৪
খানা প্রধাদনয ঱তকযা ঴ায
৮৫ ৮ ৮৭ ৮৭ ৩ ৮৭ ৮ ৮৮ ৪
৪ ৮ ৭ ৬
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৭ ৬ ৫ ৪ ৩
঩ারনয ব্যফ঴ায (঱তাাং঱) Access to Water
৯৮ ৯৮ ৯৭ ৯ ৯৭ ৮ ৯৭ ৫
শ শ
৮৫ ৩ ৮ ৭৭ ৯ ৬৭ ৮ ৬৬ ৯
৫৮ ৫৬ ৫৪ NA NA
৮৮ ৩ ৬৩ ৩ ৪ ৩ ৩
৪ ৮ ৮
ট৞দরট সুরফধা (঱তাাং঱)
৭৬ ৮ ৭৫ ৭৩ ৫ ৬৩ ৫ ৬৩ ৩
৬ ৩ ৩ ৩৪ ৪ ৩৪ ৫
৬ ৭ ৩৩
৪
৭ শ শ
৭ ৩ ৭ ৬৩ ৬ ৫৮ ৬ ৫৭
৭৪ ৩ ৭৩ ৬৫ ৬ ৬ ৭ ৫৯ ৩
৭ ৬৮ ৯ ৬ ৬ ৫৬ ৬ ৫৫
৬৬ ৫ ৬৫ ৫ ৫৭ ৫৫ ৫৩ ৯
৬৮ ৬ ৬৭ ৭ ৫৯ ৫৭ ৫৫
৬৪ ৪ ৬৩ ৩ ৫৫ ৫৩ ৫ ৯
শ
৭৯ ৫ ৭৭ ৭ ৭৩ ৩ ৭ ৫ ৬৮ ৬
৮ ৫ ৭৯ ৬ ৭৫ ৩ ৭ ৬ ৭ ৯
৭৭ ৫ ৭৫ ৮ ৭ ৬৮ ৪ ৬৬
১৫ ফছয ঑ তদুধ ভ জন঳াংখ্যায র঱ক্ষায ঴ায (঱তকযা)
৭ ৯ ৭ ৩ ৬৪ ৬ ৬ ৪ ৬
৭৫ ৭ ৭৫ ৬৭ ৬ ৬৪ ৭ ৬৪
৭ ৬৯ ৫ ৬ ৬ ৫৮ ৫৭ ৮
৬৬ ৬৫ ৪ ৫৭ ৬ ৫৭ ৪ ৫৭
৬৯ ৬৮ ৪ ৬ ৬ ৬ ৭ ৬
৬৩ ৬ ৪ ৫৪ ৬ ৫৪ ৫৩ ৯
শ
৮ ৮ ৭ ৭৪ ৭ ৭৪ ৬ ৭৪
৮৩ ৮ ৮৩ ৩ ৭৭ ৭ ৭৭ ৭ ৭৭ ৩
৭৮ ৪ ৭৭ ৯ ৭ ৮ ৭ ৫ ৭ ৯
৫ শ
৮৮ ৪ ৮৮ ৪ ৮৮ ৮৯ ৮৯
৬ ৬ ৮ ৮ ৯
৬ ): ৮
৬৩ ৬৫
৮ ৯
৮ ৭৪
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Executive Summary
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) introduced Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS) for the
first time in 1980 to study the changes in the demographic scenarios of Bangladesh during the
intercensal periods. Initially, its coverage was limited to 103 primary sampling units (PSU) each
consisting of 250 households. Subsequently, the number of sample PSUs was raised to 210 in 1983
and further to 1000 in 2002. To meet the data requirements of the planners and policy makers, the
number of PSUs was increased to 1500 in 2013. An Integrated Multi-Purpose Sample (IMPS) Design,
introduced in 2012, is being followed since 2013 SVRS, which is also applicable to the last four
rounds of SVRS since 2014. As many as 11 data recording schedules are currently being used to
collect data on household and household population characteristics, birth, death, migration, marriage,
disability, HIV/AIDS and contraceptive use.
The recording of vital events in the sample area is made possible through a dual recording system
proposed by Chandrasekaran and Deming. Under this system, vital events are collected as and when
they occur by a locally recruited female registrar called Local Registrar (System-1). On the other
hand, under a second system (System-2) another group of officials from District/Upazila Statistical
Office of BBS also collect the data independently from the same area on quarterly basis. Having
gathered the filled in questionnaires from the two systems, data are matched in the headquarters by a
pre-designed matching criteria by a group of trained officials and the demographic rates and ratios are
estimated using the adjusted number of events. In order to find denominators for the estimation of
demographic parameters, a detailed household survey is conducted at the beginning of every year
covering basic household and population characteristics. The matching of the vital events suggested
that about 1.72 percent of the births and another 1.64 percent of the deaths were missed by both the
systems in 2017.
Quality of Age Data
The data collected in SVRS have been evaluated to shed light on the quality of data. Particular
attention has been given to assess the quality of age data, which are of primary importance in
estimating most of the vital rates and ratios. Three popular indices viz. Myer‘s index, Whipple‘s index
and UN Age-Sex Accuracy Index, also called UN Joint Score have been computed from reported age
distributions for this purpose. These indices have pointed out the fact that the quality of age reporting
in SVRS has improved over the last four years. The detailed results of this assessment have been
presented in Chapter II of this report.
Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Households
The enumerated population in the registration area shows a sex ratio of 100.2 resulting from a total
627068 males and 625513 females. The overall sex ratio has shown a moderate decline over the last
five years, from 102.6 in 2013 to 100.2 in 2017. The age structure of the population is still conducive
to high fertility with 29.3 percent of its total population being under age 15. The dependency ratio fell
from 58 percent in 2013 to 53 percent in 2017. Dependency ratio recorded a notable fall from 80 in
2002 to 53 in 2017.
The average household size dropped from 4.4 in 2013 to 4.2 in 2017. Bangladeshi women are still
dominated by their male counterpart. This has been reflected from a high male household headship
rate of 85.8 percent in 2017. This rate was 88.4 in 2013 demonstrating a moderate decline over the
last 5 years. Adult literacy rate for population aged 15+ has shown further increase from its 2016
level: from 72.3 percent to 72.9 in 2017. A similar increase was noted in literacy rate for population
aged 7 years and above: from 71.0 percent to 72.3 percent. In both cases, males are more in
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proportions to dominate over the females in literacy rates, the difference being in the neighborhood of
5 percentage points.
The survey findings on adult literacy (15+) further reveal that the urban residents are nearly 24
percent more likely than their rural counterparts to be literate. This amounts to about 20 percent in the
case of population aged 7 years and over. However, the rural population as opposed to urban
population experienced more accelerated increase in the adult literacy since 2013. This is true for both
the populations with respect to the defined age limits (i.e. 7+ and 15+).
Fertility
Crude birth rate, the simplest measure of fertility has been estimated at 18.5 per thousand population
in 2017 as compared to 18.7 in 2016. The CBR fell from 19.0 in 2013 to 18.5 in 2017, demonstrating
an only an 1 percent average decrease over the five years since 2013. The rural CBR, as expected, is
higher than the urban CBR: 20.4 versus 16.1. The general fertility rate (GFR) worked out to 68 per
thousand women with a much higher rate (78) in rural area as compared to 56 in urban area. This rate
remained nearly constant over the last five years. The total fertility rate (TFR) remains in the
neighborhood of 2.1 since 2013.
Mortality
The crude death rate was estimated to be 5.1 per 1000 population. This rate has declined from 5.3 in
2013 to 5.1 in 2017 without any change in the rate since 2015. In the rural area, the CDR is higher
(5.7) than in the urban area (4.2). The rate was the same for both the areas during the last two years.
The infant mortality rate (IMR) recorded a significant fall from 28 per thousand live births in 2016 to
24 per thousand live births in 2017. Keeping consistency with the previous years, the IMR for males
remained higher than their female counterparts. Female infants experienced steeper decline (17.9%)
than the males (7.4%). Unlike the previous year (2016), urban infants were less in proportion (22 per
thousand live births) to experience death than the rural infants (25 per thousand live births).
The neo-natal mortality rate fell from 20 deaths per 1000 live births in 2013 to 17 deaths per 1000 live
births in 2017 revealing notable sex differentials in favor of females. Area of residence failed to
record any difference in the neo-natal mortality rate (17 versus 17 per thousand live births).
Unlike previous years, post-neo-natal mortality rate recorded a minor decline since its previous year‘s
rate. Our investigation reveals that the Post-neonatal mortality rate (PNMR) over the last 3 years
remained static (9 deaths per 1000 live births) except that for urban population, where a notable
decline was observed. Child (1-4 years) mortality has been estimated to be 1.8 deaths per 1000
children in 2017 suggesting no change since its previous year‘s rate. Under-five mortality has
demonstrated a moderate decline of 24 percent over a period of one year: from 41 deaths per 1000
live births in 2013 to 31 deaths in 2017. In line with our previous finding on child and infant
mortality, male children undergo more health hazard than their female counterparts. This is evident
from the differential death rates by sex.
Maternal mortality ratio has shown a consistent fall over the last five years, from 1.97 maternal deaths
per 1000 live births in 2013 to 1.72 in 2017, about 13 % decrease in 5 years. Urban women are in an
advantageous position with a lower maternal mortality rate (1.57) than their rural counterparts (1.82).
Life expectancy at birth has increased by a narrow margin of 0.4 years over the last one year: from
71.6 years in 2016 to 72.0 in 2017. Our analysis shows that the gain in life expectancy is somewhat
pronounced among the females (73.5 years) than those among the males (70.6 years) resulting from a
higher survival advantage in favor of females.
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Age at marriage
Analysis of age at marriage data reveals that in recent time mean age at first marriage specially of
males by and large has gone down marginally. For example, the age at first marriage as computed in
2015 was 25.3 years, which decreased to 25.2 years in 2016 and further to 25.1 year in 2017. On the
contrary, female age at first marriage remained static (18.4 years) since 2013 with a minor depression
in 2014 (18.3 years). The overall impression from the survey findings is that the age at marriage has
not changed over the last five years.
Contraceptive usage rate
The overall contraceptive prevalence rate is 62.5 percent in 2017, which demonstrates a moderate
increase of 0.2 percentage point over its rate in 2016. The rate reported in 2013 was about of the same
magnitude 62.4 percent implying constancy in the rate during the last 5 years. As expected, the urban
women as compared to their rural counterparts are more likely (66.3%) to adopt contraceptives than
their rural counterparts (59.4%).
Migration
Both in-migration and out-migration rates have exhibited an abrupt increase in recent time. For
example, while the in-migration rate was 54.2 percent in 2015, it increased to 76.7 percent in 2016
with a moderate decline to 73.8 in 2017. The same feature is observed in the case of out-migration
rate: from 54.4 percent in 2015 to 78.5 percent in 2016, which thereafter decreased to 74.3 percent in
2017. The migratory behavior of the population in the SVRS area thus reflects a balancing scenario.
Urban in-migration rate was somewhat lower (119.4 percent) in 2017 compared to the previous year
rate (123.0 percent). A similar decline is seen to be prevalent in the case of out migration rate. It is
important to note that both these rates were showing increasing trend since 2016 with a wide gap
between 2016 and 2015.
Disability
That overall disability rate as estimated from the 2017 round of survey is 8.9 per thousand populations
displaying significantly a higher risk (9.8) among the males than among the females with a risk of 8.0
per thousand population. The reported data further showed that the prevalence of disability remained
stable over the last five years irrespective of sex.
Knowledge on HIV/AIDS
It is for the fifth time that SVRS went on to gather data on the knowledge of the females of
reproductive age on the modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS. The investigation showed that 68.8
percent of the respondents knew at least one mode of transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child
in 2017. This is about two percentage points higher than its previous level. On the other hand 18.5
percent women knew about all modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS in 2013, which increased to 33.5
percent in 2017.
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ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা ১৯৮০ ঳ার ঴দত বৈত ঩িরতদত জন্঩, মৃত্যু, রফফা঴ ঑ স্থানান্তয ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ কদয আ঳দছ।
১৯৮০ ঳াদর ভাত্র ১০৩টি (৬২টি ঩ল্লী + ৪১টি ঱঴য) নমুনা এরাকা৞ (Primary Sampling Unit) এ তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ ঩িরত
একটি উন্ন৞ন প্রকদেয আ঑তা৞ শুরু ঴৞। ১৯৮৩ ঳াদর জরযদ঩য নমুনা এরাকায ঳াংখ্যা ১০৩টি ঴দত ২১০ এ উন্নীত কযা ঴৞।
মায ভদে ঩ল্লী এরাকা৞ রছর ১৫০টি এফাং ঱঴য এরাকা৞ রছর ৬০টি। রকন্তু নমুনা এরাকায ঳াংখ্যা কভ ঴঑৞া৞ এ কাম ভক্রদভয
আ঑তা৞ ঳াংগৃ঴ীত তথ্য জজরা ঩ম ভাদ৞ রনরু঩ন কযা ঳ম্ভফ ঴দতা না। তাই ১৯৯৫ ঳াদর নমুনা এরাকায (Sample Area) ঳াংখ্যা
২১০ ঴দত ৫০০ জত উন্নীত কযা ঴৞। বৈত ঩িরতদত জন্঩, মৃত্যু, রফফা঴, আগভন-ফর঴গভন, ভ জন্঩ রন৞ন্ত্রণ ঩িরত এফাং প্ররতফন্ধী
঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ কাম ভক্রভ জজাযদাযকযণ ঑ জজরা ঩ম ভাদ৞ তথ্য উ঩স্থা঩দনয জ্ ২০০০ ঳াদর একটি উন্ন৞ন প্রকে গ্র঴ণ কযা
঴৞ এফাং ২০০২ ঳াদর নমুনা এরাকায ঳াংখ্যা ৫০০ ঴দত ১০০০ এ উন্নীত কযা ঴৞। ফতভভাদন নত্যন IMPS Design অনুমা৞ী
নমুনা এরাকায ঳াংখ্যা ২০১২-জত উন্নীত কযা ঴দ৞দছ।
চন্দ্রদ঳কযন ঑ জডরভাং এয বৈত ঩িরত অনু঳যণ কদয নমুনা এরাকাটি জথদক বাইটার ইদবন্ট ঳মূদ঴য তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ কযা ঴দ৞দছ।
বৈত ঩িরতদত দু’টি পৃথক তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ ঩িরত অনু঳যণ কযা ঴৞ মায একটি (System-1) ঩িরত ঴র স্থানী৞বাদফ রনফ ভারচত ঑
এরাকায স্থা৞ী ফার঳ন্দা একজন স্থানী৞ জযরজষ্ট্রায, নমুনা এরাকা৞ ঳াংঘটিত জন্঩, মৃত্যু, রফফা঴ ঑ স্থানান্তয ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য ১১টি
তপর঳দরয ভােদভ তাৎক্ষরনকবাদফ ঳াংগ্র঴ কদয ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযায ঳দয দপ্তদয জপ্রযণ কদয। অ঩য ঩িরত (System-2) ঴র
ব্যুদযায ভাঠ ঩ম ভাদ৞ কভভযত কভভকতভা/কভভচাযীগণ কর্তভক প্ররত রতন ভা঳ অন্তয অন্তয একই তথ্য গণনা ঑ তদাযরকয রবরিদত
একই নমুনা এরাকায তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ কযা ঴৞। ঳াংগৃ঴ীত তথ্য ঩দয ম্যারচাং কদয ঳ঠিকতা মাচাই কযা ঴৞ এফাং প্রকৃত ঘটন ঳াংখ্যা
(events) রনণ ভ৞ কদয রফরবন্ন জনরভরতক সূচক কদয রযদ঩াট ভ আকাদয প্রকা঱ কযা ঴৞। ২০১৭ ঳াদর জন্঩ ঑ মৃত্যু
রফল৞ক তথ্য ম্যারচাং পরাপদর জদখা মা৞ জম জন্঩ জক্ষদত্র missing events রছর .৭ % এফাং মৃত্যুয জক্ষদত্রই তা রছর
১.৬৪%।
SVRS :
৩ Indices SVRS ।Index
Myer‘s Index, Whipple‘s Index UN Age-Sex Accuracy Index. , SVRS
। ।
শ :
৭ ।
৭ ৯৫ ৭৫ । . ( - ৬ ৭ ৬৮
- ৬ ৫৫ ৩)। । ৩ .৬ ৭
. । ৯.৩% ৫ । ।
(Dependency Ratio) ৮ ৭
৫৩। - ৭ ৩৪% ৩- ৭ ৫
।
৩ ৪.৪ ৭ ৪. । শ
। SVRS Report-2017 শশ ৮৫.৮ ।
শ ( ৫+ ) । ৩ ৬. % ৭
শ ৭ .৯ । ৫ শ ৭ .৩ ৭ .৯ ।৭
:৭ ৭ .৩।
SVRS Report 2017 শ ( ৫ )শ শ
৩% শ । ৭ শ শ %। ৩ শ
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শ ।৭ শ ৫ শ
।
:
। SVRS Report-2017 শ ৮.৫
, ৩ ৯. । শ % । শ
শ শ : .৪ ৬. । ৭
(General Fertility Rate) ৬৮। ৭৮
শ ৫৬। (Total Fertility Rate) ৭ . ৫ ৩
. । শ
।
শ
SVRS , ৭ শ শ ৫. ৫.৭
শ ৪. । ৩ ৫.৩, ৭ ৫. । শ (
) । শ ৩ ৩
৭ ৪- ।
শ । Neo-
natal mortality rate ৩ ২০, ৭ ৭ । Post- neonatal mortality rate
(PNMR) ৩( ) ।
৭ শ ( -৪ ) .৮ শ ৩ . । শ
( -৪ ) ৫( ) শ । (Under five mortality) শ
। ৩ শ শ
৪ ৭ ৩ ।
শ (Indicator) ,
। শ শ ।
(MMR) । ৩ .৯৭
৭ .৭ ।
শ (Life Expectancy at Birth) .৩
শ .৬ । শ ৩ ৭ .৪ ৭ ৭ .
। শ । শ
শ ।
শ , শ
। ৫ ৫.৩ ৬ ৭
৫. ৫. । ৩ ৮.৪ ৭
।
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৩- ৭ In-migration rate Out-migration rate
। ৭
In-migration rate ৭৩.৮ ৩ ৩৯.৯ । Out-migration rate
: ৭ Out -migration rate ৭৪.৩ ৩
৪ .৪ । , শ In Out migration
।শ ৬ ৭ in out migration ।
:
৩ ৭ ৫ ( ) , । SVRS
Report-2017 , শ শ (৬৬.৩%) (৫৯.৪%)
শ ।
৭ শ
৯ । শ
শ । ৭ ৯.৮
৮. ।
/
শ ৩ / ৫-৪৯
। ৭ ৩৩.৫ (%)
/ । ৩ ৮.৫ (%) । ৭
/ শ ৬৮.৮ ৩ ৬ .৬
।
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CHAPTER I
Sample Design and Survey Implementation
1.1 Background
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) introduced a Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS) for the
first time in 1980 to determine the population change during the intercensal periods. Initially, its
coverage was 103 primary sampling units (PSU) each consisting of 250 households. Subsequently, the
number of sample PSUs was raised to 210 in 1983, 500 PSUs in 1995 and further to 1000 in 2002. To
meet the data need of the planners and policy makers, the number of PSUs was further increased to
1500 in 2013. An Integrated Multi-Purpose Sample (IMPS) Design, introduced in 2012 has also been
followed since 2013 SVRS. As many as 11 data recording schedules are currently being used to
collect data on household and population characteristics, births, death, migration, marriage, disability,
HIV/AIDS and contraceptive use.
The vital events in the sample area are collected through a dual recording system proposed by
Chandrasekaran and Deming. Under this system, vital events are collected as and when they occur by
a locally recruited female registrar termed as Local Registrar (System-1). On the other hand, under a
second system (System–2), another group of officials from District/Upazila Statistical Office of BBS
also collect the data independently from the same area on quarterly basis employing four schedules
bearing numbers 3 (Birth), 4 (Death), 5 (Marriage), and 6 (Divorce/Separation) and half yearly basis
employing schedules 7 (Out-Migration) and schedules 8 (In-Migration). Having the filled in
questionnaires from the two systems, data are matched in the headquarters by a pre-designed
matching criteria and the demographic rates and ratios are estimated following Chandrasekaran and
Deming procedure. In order to find denominators for the demographic parameters, a detailed
household survey is conducted at the beginning of every year covering basic household and
population characteristics. The following and the subsequent sections of the present chapter are
designed to provide an overview of such issues as coverage, schedules used, data collection
procedure, estimation of missing events, data management and some other issues pertinent to the
SVRS.
1.2 Coverage of the Sample
The IMPS frame developed from 2011 census served as the sampling frame for the collection of data
in the SVRS survey 2017. The master sample PSUs were used as the PSUs in the SVRS. A single–
stage stratified cluster sampling methodology was adopted for the SVRS sample EAs. Prior to the
selection, all EAs containing less than 40 households were combined with an adjacent EA to be
comparable with the remaining EAs. Selection of EAs within the strata was performed with
probability proportionate to the estimated number of households from a computerized list ordered
alphabetically within the 64 districts. Once an EA was selected, all households within the EAs were
brought under the purview of data collection for SVRS area. A total of 935 urban EAs and 1077 rural
EAs were selected from the entire country in 2017 SVRS.
Each of the seven geographic divisions of the country was regarded as a domain of the study. These
domains were divided in three residential categories, viz. rural, urban and City Corporation.
Altogether, 21 domains were thus resulted in the design.
In determining the sample size for each domain, standard formulas were adopted resulting in 2012
PSUs. The allocations of the PSUs along with the associated number of households by strata in each
domain of study are shown in Table 1.1 below:
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Table 1.1: Allocation of SVRS PSUs and households by domains of study, SVRS 2017
Rural Urban Total
Divisions PSU Household PSU Household PSU Household
Barishal 87 12896 122 17516 209 30412
Chattogram 182 26484 134 19298 316 45782
Dhaka 292 44630 184 25343 476 69973
Khulna 131 20541 124 17006 255 37547
Rajshahi 156 23485 127 18274 283 41759
Rangpur 138 21005 122 17971 260 38976
Sylhet 91 13564 122 17162 213 30726
Total 1077 162605 935 132570 2012 295175
1.3 Survey Schedule

Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS) is a continuous surveillance system and has been in
operation since 1980. Over time its scope and coverage have substantially increased. As a component
of strengthening SVRS, two new modules, one on disability and another on divorce/separation have
been added to the data collection system in 2002. In 2013 a new schedule on HIV and AIDS has also
been added. Now there are altogether 11 independent schedules on different topics. A brief
description of these schedules is provided below.
Schedule 1 (Household Listing): It contains the area identification of each PSU along with holding
number and household number of all the households of the PSU. There is a line for each household
where some information of head of the household and quarterly updates of population is recorded. It
also contains map of the PSU and classification codes of variables.
Schedule 2 (Household Card): This schedule has two modules. In module 1, household related data
and in module 2 population related data are collected. In all, there are 21 questions. It is generally
canvassed in the month of January of each year.
Schedule 3 (Birth):The birth schedule has 9 questions on live births and 4 questions about the mother
of the children. The schedule is filled-in by the local registrar as and when a birth occurs in the PSU.
Filled-in schedule is returned back to the headquarters in the first week of the following month.
Schedule 4 (Death): The death schedule contains 8 questions related to the particulars of the deceased
persons who died during the index calendar year. It is filled-in as and when a death occurs and is sent
to the headquarters in the first week of the following month.
Schedule 5 (Marriage): The marriage schedule contains 9 questions about the occurrence of marriage
among the population of the PSU during a quarter of the calendar year and is sent to the headquarters
on quarterly basis in the first week of every fourth month.
Schedule 6 (Divorce/Separation): This schedule has 9 questions about divorce and separation. It is
also sent to the headquarters on quarterly basis.
Schedule 7 (Out-Migration): This schedule is used to collect 7 different types of data about out-
migration. It is sent to the headquarters on half -yearly basis in the first week of July and January of
each year.
Schedule 8 (In-Migration): This schedule contains 7 questions related to in-migration. This is also
sent to the headquarters on six- monthly basis.
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Schedule 9 (Contraceptive use): This schedule is used to collect data about contraceptive use and
methods of contraceptives. It is canvassed in January of each year.
Schedule 10 (Disability): This schedule has 6 questions and is used to collect data about the disabled
persons by age and sex, type of disability and reasons behind becoming disabled. It is also canvassed
in January of each year.
Schedule 11(HIV and AIDS): This schedule is used to collect data on the knowledge of the
respondents on HIV and AIDS. This schedule includes four questions and the respondents are asked
about their name, age, knowledge on reasons of HIV/AIDS disease and its infection. The old
schedules and new draft schedule-11(HIV and AIDS) were recast in the technical committee and were
revised where necessary. To economize the survey costing all the schedules were printed in black and
white with shed for the schedule names only.
1.4 Data Collection
In the SVR system, data on vital events, such as, births, deaths, marriages, divorce/separation, in-
migration and out-migration, contraceptive use and disability are collected through two independent
systems. Under System-1, a local female registrar is engaged in each PSU to collect in prescribed
schedules the occurrences of vital events as and when those occur. Under System-2 the officers
(supervisors) collect retrospective data on birth, death, marriage, divorce and separation on quarterly
basis, migration data on half yearly basis and contraceptive use, disability in the yearly basis and
submit the filled-in schedules to Deputy Directors of District Statistical Office who in turn send those
to the headquarters.
The local registrars collect particulars of events on continuous basis and send those to the
headquarters in the first week of the following month for birth and deaths, in the first week of the
fourth month for marriage and in the first week of the seventh month for migration. Previously, the
headquarters staff used to collect particulars of the events occurring during the preceding three
months in the same (PSU) area independently on a quarterly basis. Now the responsibility of
collecting data through System-2 has been transferred to the Deputy Directors of District Statistical
Office who perform it with the assistance of the staff members of the district statistical offices and
upazila offices. Staff members of SVRS Project and Demography and Health Wing of BBS at head
office match and evaluate the work of these two systems and re-visit, wherever necessary.
Updating of the sample population and household and matching of the vital events collected under the
two systems are done according to predetermined criteria such as household number, mother‘s name,
mother‘s relationship with head of household, baby‘s name, date of birth, sex of the baby, age of
mother, place of birth, name of the deceased, age of the deceased, date of death and sex of the
deceased. The events are ultimately classified into matched, partially matched, non-matched and out
of scope events. Partially matched and non-matched events are subject to further verification through
field visits to ascertain the actual status of the events. These important tasks are done by the trained
and experienced senior officers and staff members of SVRS project and Demography and Health
Wing through field visit. This helps to catch the events missed by both the systems.

The process of matching greatly reduces the possibility of erroneous inclusion of out of scope events
or exclusion of genuine events. When matching procedure has been completed, events are classified
as follows:
Registrar (System–1)
Supervisor (System–2) Recorded by Registrar Missed by Registrar Total
Recorded by supervisor M n2 N2
Missed by Supervisor n1 z V2
Total N1 v1 N
An estimate of z is then
n1  n 2
zˆ 
M
An estimate of the total number of events is then arrived at as follows:
N̂  M  n1  n 2  ẑ
N1 N
The completeness of enumeration for System–1 is C1  and for the System–2, it is C 2  2 .
N N
The following formula was used to estimate the standard error of the total events:
 q q 
S e  Nˆ  1 2 
 p1  p 2 
where
M M
p1  p2 
N1 N2
and
where p+q=1.
Hence the 95% confidence interval is
Nˆ  1.96 Se  N  Nˆ  1.96 Se
Table below shows the estimates of births and deaths for 2017 round of data collection in the SVRS
area based on the procedure outlined above.
Table 1.2: Completeness of registration of births and deaths (in percent), SVRS 2017
% Events recorded % Events % Completeness
by missed by of recording
Both Registrar but Supervisor Achieved Achieved
Registrar missed but missed Both Registrar through through
and by by and Supervisor Registrar Supervisor
Events Supervisor Supervisor Registrar
Births 75.50 11.64 11.14 1.72 87.15 86.64
Deaths 76.00 11.36 11.00 1.64 87.36 87.00

In the case of births, 1.7 percent of the events were missed, while the deaths were missed in 1.64
percent of the cases by enumerators. The results presented in Table 1.2 further shows that the
performance of the local registrars was better relative to the supervisors so far as the completeness of
enumeration is concerned.
The total number of events as estimated by the application of C–D technique and the standard error of
the estimates along with the 95% confidence interval appear in Table 1.3.
Table 1.3: Estimates of births and deaths as recorded through dual record system, standard
error of the estimates and 95 percent confidence interval, SVRS 2017
Events Estimated Standard error 95% confidence interval
number of the estimate Lower limit Upper limit
Births 23205 518 22190 24220
Deaths 6355 142 6077 6633
1.5 Consistency Check
Household and population information along with the events such as births, deaths, marriages, in-
migration, out-migration, disability and contraceptive usage collected through different schedules by
the dual recording systems, had to undergo systematic and rigorous consistency checks. Documents of
the two systems were matched and accepted or rejected as per the tolerance limit specified in advance.
The officers from the headquarters visit the field to verify the non-matched cases and also to verify
the quality of data collected by the local registrars and also the supervisors. Coding and thorough
editing were done before the data were entered into the computer. The entered data were further
scrutinized through the process of computer editing.
1.6 Quality Control
Supervision and quality control of SVRS data are done in two stages. At stage-1 supervisors and
Deputy Directors of District Statistical Office regularly check the quality of work obtained by the
local registrars. At stage-2 data obtained under System-1 and System-2 are matched at the
headquarters and then the unmatched cases are verified in the field. At this stage, PSU- wise summary
of births, deaths, marriages and migration are made for the current year and also for the previous year.
Serious discrepancies (if any) are then verified in the field as internal validation. The coverage of
events and quality for collected data are compiled and recorded in the report by division for future
improvement. For major events such as birth and death completion rates were computed by division
to determine the coverage error. Standard error and confidence limits were calculated to test the
quality of the indices produced in SVRS.
1.7 Quality of Age Data
The data collected in SVRS have been evaluated to shed light on the quality of data. Particular
attention has been given to assess the quality of age data, which are of primary importance in
estimating most of the vital rates and ratios. Three popular indices viz. Myer‘s index, Whipple‘s index
and UN Age-Sex Accuracy Index, also called UN Joint Score have been computed from reported age
distributions by sex for this purpose. These indices have pointed out the fact that the quality of age
reporting in SVRS has improved over last three years. The detailed results have been provided in
Chapter II.
1.8 Estimates of Missed Events in SVRS 2017
After matching the recorded vital events ‗birth‘ and ‗death‘ by LR (System–1), Supervisor (System–
2) it was observed that 1.72 percent of the births and another 1.64 percent of the deaths were missed

by both the systems in 2017. For 2017, these rates were of the same magnitude (2.1 for both birth and
death)The corresponding estimates were 2.3 percent in the case of birth and 2.4 percent in the case of
death in 2017 showing a slight improvement in the quality of recording of the vital events in the
sample area. As in other years, we adjusted the vital events ‗birth‘ and ‗death‘ considering missed
events being missed by the systems (System–1 and System –2) and arrived at the estimates of birth
and death rates for the year 2017.
1.9 Confidence Interval
The reliability of the indicators has been assessed by computing the standard error of the estimates
and hence the confidence intervals of the population parameters (here the indicators). Table 1.4 below
shows these standard errors and the 95 percent confidence intervals of some of the selected indicators.
Table 1.4: Confidence intervals for some major indicators, SVRS 2017
Indicators Rate Standard 95% Confidence interval
Error Lower limit Upper limit
Crude Birth Rate (CBR) 18.5 0.17 18.33 18.67
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) 2.05 0.06 1.99 2.11
Crude Date Rate CDR 5.10 0.09 5.01 5.19
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) 24 0.20 23.80 24.20
Neo-natal Mortality Rate 17 0.16 16.84 17.16
Post- neonatal Mortality Rate 7 0.11 6.89 7.11
Child Death Rate (CDR) 1.8 0.05 1.75 1.85
Under 5 Mortality Rate 31 0.22 30.78 31.22
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) 1.72 0.05 1.67 1.77
Life Expectancy (Both sexes ) 72.0 0.33 71.67 72.33
Life Expectancy (Male) 70.6 0.33 70.27 70.93
Life Expectancy (Female) 73.5 0.34 73.16 73.84
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) 62.5 0.31 62.19 62.81
Crude Disability Rate 8.9 0.12 8.78 9.02

CHAPTER II
Household Characteristics and Population Composition
This chapter presents an overview of the household characteristics in the SVRS area in 2017
pertaining to household size, household headship, housing structure, and living space, sources of
water in the households, lighting facilities, sources of fuels, and toilet facilities. These data are of
immense importance in an understanding of the basic human needs and household facilities that
determine the quality of human life. The results have been presented for the overall sample and
whenever possible, by several such background characteristics as residence, administrative division,
education and religion. Characteristics of the household populations in terms of age-sex composition,
quality of age reporting and some age-sex based demographic characteristics that include, among
others, dependency ratio; marital status and child-woman ratio have also been discussed. The chapter
also presents an overview of religious composition, and literacy rates.
2.1 Household Composition
Household composition is an important determinant in an understanding of the general health status of
the population and overall well-being of the families including empowerment of women in family
decision making. Information on household composition also serves as a basis for planning
population-based policy and programs (BDHS, 2011). Table 2.1 shows the household size in the
sample area by current residence and religion. As the table shows, the modal size of the household is
4 comprising a little over 28 percent of all households irrespective of all background characteristics.
There are about 21 percent households consisting of 3 members. The overall average household size
is 4.2. This feature prevails across the residential status and religious composition of the population.
Nearly 14 percent of the households consist of 1–2 members and another two-thirds 3–5 members.
These proportions are by and large of the same magnitude across the religious groups. The pattern of
household size is consistent with the 2011 sample census results, which also documented a modal size
at 4. The 2014 Education Household Survey also reported an average household size of 4 members
(EHS, 2014, Preliminary results). The household distribution pattern as obtained in 2017 survey, by
and large, appears to be similar to the one depicted in 2016 round of SVRS Survey.
The average household size in the rural area marginally exceeds the average of urban area: 4.3 versus
4.2. Muslims and Buddhists appeared to have the higher household size (4.3 each) than the followers
of other religions ranging between 4.0 and 4.2. It is surprising to note that more than 37 percent of the
households are still burdened with a household size of 5 or more persons.

Table 2.1: Percent distribution of sample households by household size, residence and
religion, SVRS 2017
Household size Residence Religion
Rural Urban Muslim Hindu Buddhist Christian Others Total
1 3.5 2.5 2.5 3.1 2.6 2.7 9.8 3.0
2 10.4 11.2 9.6 11.0 9.4 11.6 6.8 10.8
3 19.4 22.2 21.7 20.5 21.7 21.5 19.5 20.7
4 27.0 29.7 30.3 27.9 30.4 27.9 24.8 28.2
5 19.3 17.4 18.4 18.4 18.3 19.5 17.3 18.4
6 10.4 8.5 8.6 9.7 9.0 8.8 3.8 9.5
7 4.9 4.0 3.8 4.5 4.5 4.9 8.3 4.5
8 2.7 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.3 2.0 3.8 2.5
9 1.1 0.9 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.7 1.5 1.0
10+ 1.5 1.3 1.6 1.4 0.9 0.5 4.5 1.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Number of HH 162605 132570 260208 31852 2262 741 112 295175
Population 700301 552280 1106829 132632 9722 2953 445 1252581
Average 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.0 4.0 4.2
Table 2.2 presents the distribution of household size by geographic divisions. Among the seven
divisions, Rangpur has the highest proportion (30.9%) of households with 4 members, which
coincides with the overall average household size, while Sylhet the lowest (23.1%) with the same
household size. The average household size is the highest (5.0) in Sylhet division followed by
Chattogram division (4.6). Rajshahi division was found to have the lowest household size with 3.9
members. A close examination of the data presented Table 2.2 depicts that average household sizes by
all background characteristics have shown a downward trend over the last two years.
Table 2.2: Percent distribution of sample households by size and division, SVRS 2017
Household Geographic division
size Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet Total
1 2.4 1.9 3.3 3.1 4.0 4.1 1.9 3.0
2 9.5 8.5 13.2 11.7 12.6 10.3 7.2 10.8
3 20.6 17.6 21.1 23.8 23.9 21.2 15.2 20.7
4 29.6 26.1 27.3 30.5 30.2 30.9 23.1 28.2
5 19.9 20.5 18.1 17.1 16.1 18.3 19.6 18.4
6 9.9 12.0 9.0 7.8 7.1 8.4 13.5 9.5
7 4.4 6.2 4.0 2.9 2.9 3.5 8.2 4.5
8 2.2 3.5 2.2 1.6 1.6 1.7 5.3 2.8
9 0.6 1.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 2.3 1.0
10+ 0.9 2.1 1.0 0.8 0.9 0.9 3.7 1.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Number 30412 45782 69973 37547 41759 38976 30726 295175
Average 4.2 4.6 4.1 4.0 3.9 4.1 5.0 4.2
2.2 Household Headship
According to the National Association of Home Builders, headship rates are the number of people
who are counted as heads of households. Headship rates are important because they help home
builders and city planners to determine how many households are forming that will need housing.

It is well-documented that women almost everywhere are disadvantaged relative to men in their
access to asset, credit, employment, and education. Consequently, it is often suspected that female-
headed households are poorer than male-headed households, and are less able to invest in the health
and education of their children (Folbre, 1991; UNDP, 1995; United Nations, 1996; World Bank,
2001). Though numerous case studies confirm these claims, the empirical evidence is far from
conclusive. Many studies have concluded that the relationship between female headship and poverty
is strong in only two out of ten countries in their sample (Ghana and Bangladesh).
Bangladesh society is primarily a male dominant society and as a consequence of this, most families
are headed by males. However, this feature is changing over time. The present study obtained data on
the headship status of the families. Table 2.3 below presents an overview of the headship status of the
sample households by some background characteristics of the population. As we can see from the
table under reference, overall, 85.8 percent of the households are headed by males and the remaining
14.2 percent by their counterpart women, there being a deviation of about 12 percent in headship from
the 2016 survey in favor of females. The data revealed enormous variations in headship type within
sex by almost all the background characteristics. Younger females, who are below 15 years of age are
seen to take up the household responsibilities as heads relatively more than their older counterparts
while the opposite is true for males. Widowed/divorced females as compared to their counterpart
males are significantly more in proportion (84.8% versus 15.2%) to run the families as heads.
Household headship is more prevalent among the Hindu males (89.7%) than among the males of other
religions. Divisional variations in headship are minimal. In conformity with the results of 2016, males
in Rangpur division in 2017 are more likely (89.1%) to take the burden of household headship among
the seven divisions of the country, while males of Chattogram division are lagging behind (78.5%) in
this respect. Education appears to be positively related to the headship status.
Table 2.3: Percent distribution of household headship by sex, administrative division and
religion, SVRS 2017
Headship type Total
Background
Male headed Female headed
Characteristics
household household
Current age:
Below 15 78.4 21.6 100.0
15–60 86.6 13.4 100.0
60+ 81.9 18.1 100.0
Marital status:
Single 86.0 14.0 100.0
Married 92.3 7.7 100.0
Widowed/divorced 15.2 84.8 100.0
Residence:
Urban 86.2 13.8 100.0
Rural 85.6 14.4 100.0
Division:
Barishal 88.2 11.8 100.0
Chattogram 78.5 21.5 100.0
Dhaka 85.7 14.3 100.0
Khulna 88.4 11.6 100.0
Rajshahi 89.0 11.0 100.0
Rangpur 89.1 10.9 100.0
Sylhet 83.2 16.8 100.0
Headship type Total
Background
Male headed Female headed
Characteristics
household household
Religion:
Muslim 85.3 14.7 100.0
Hindu 89.7 10.3 100.0
Others 87.5 12.5 100.0
Education:
None 81.2 18.8 100.0
Primary incomplete 87.3 12.7 100.0
Primary complete 87.3 12.7 100.0
Secondary incomplete 84.9 15.1 100.0
Secondary complete or 91.0 9.0 100.0
higher
Total 85.8 14.2 100.0
N 253309 41866 295175
The results on headship status are highly consistent with the recently conducted Household Education
Survey of 2014 conducted by BBS. The survey under reference documented that 88.8 percent of the
households in the country are headed by males, with 89.1 percent in the rural area and 87.5 percent in
the urban area.
2.3 Household Facilities
This section presents an overview of a few physical characteristics of the households in the SVRS
area. These characteristics reflect the general well-being and socio-economic status of the members of
the households. The information provided in this section includes such facilities as sources of drinking
water, sources of fuels, and sources of electricity, toilet facility, economic structure and type of living
structure. The findings are presented in Table 2.4.
Table 2.4: Percentage distribution of household characteristics by residence and geographic
division, SVRS 2017
Household Residence Division
Characteristics Total Rural Urban Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet
Sources of drinking water:
Tap 14.2 3.3 27.4 5.7 18.7 26.0 4.4 10.0 2.7 20.8
Tube-well 83.8 94.0 71.3 90.8 78.6 73.8 89.5 89.8 97.1 75.4
Well 0.5 0.7 0.3 0.1 1.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 1.8
Pond/ditch 0.9 1.4 0.4 2.6 0.3 0.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 1.7
River/canal 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.4
Rain water 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.1 2.4 0.1 0.0 0.1

Household Residence Division
Sources of light:
Electricity 85.3 78.6 93.5 83.3 84.4 88.4 89.6 82.8 78.7 88.1
Kerosene 8.8 12.0 4.9 5.6 7.4 6.7 6.3 13.1 16.5 6.4
Solar 5.8 9.3 1.5 10.9 8.2 4.8 3.9 4.0 4.7 5.3
Others 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1
Source of fuel:
Straw/Leaf 30.2 44.3 12.8 25.7 27.0 28.1 26.6 52.0 34.9 12.7
Husk 3.5 3.3 3.7 3.4 3.0 2.4 4.4 6.6 2.7 2.5
Jute
stick/wood/bamboo 41.3 45.3 36.4 53.3 40.3 31.8 53.8 26.3 49.3 47.7
Kerosene 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3
Electricity 1.0 0.2 2.0 0.6 0.6 0.5 1.1 1.3 2.9 0.3
Gas 23.1 5.9 44.2 16.1 28.3 36.5 12.4 12.6 9.8 35.8
Others 0.6 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.4 1.4 1.0 0.1 0.6
Toilet facility:
Sanitary with water
seal 42.8 32.3 55.8 48.5 34.7 42.8 52.4 38.9 43.9 41.6
Sanitary without
water seal 34.0 36.2 31.2 38.3 43.8 36.1 29.8 31.3 22.3 34.0
Non-sanitary/raw 20.6 27.7 12.0 12.5 19.4 19.3 16.7 27.3 26.3 22.1
Open 2.6 3.9 1.0 0.7 2.0 1.8 1.0 2.7 7.5 2.3
Level of economic solvency:
Permanent
insolvency 8.8 10.4 6.8 6.6 9.2 5.9 8.4 9.5 13.2 10.8
Temporary
insolvency 17.3 19.5 14.6 16.1 18.8 14.6 15.1 19.7 20.2 17.9
Balanced income
expenditure 34.6 33.7 35.7 36.4 34.7 37.9 31.6 30.9 33.9 34.6
Economic
Solvency 39.4 36.5 42.9 40.8 37.4 41.6 44.9 39.9 32.7 36.7
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
2.3.1 Sources of Drinking Water

Access to safe water is a pre-condition for ensuring better hygiene and health to the household
members in any community as it is positively associated with a number of diseases that include,
among others, skin disease, ARI and other waterborne diseases. Our study results show that in rural
area, use of tube-well as a source of drinking water is almost universal (94.0%) with an overall
average use of 83.8 percent. In contrast, 71.3 percent of the urban households have access to this
source. Our investigation reveals that overall tube well water use has remained nearly constant over
the last one year: 83.6 percent in 2016 and 83.8 percent in 2017.
At the divisional level, tube-well use varies from as low as 73.8 percent in Dhaka division to as high
as 97.1 percent in Rangpur division. The corresponding use rates in these two divisions were 73.4
percent and 96.7 percent respectively in 2016. Other sources of drinking water are well, pond or ditch,
river, canal and rain water which together comprise 2.0 percent of the total use. The Education
Household Survey, 2014 reports an overall use of 83 percent with 91.5 percent in rural area and 56.3
percent in urban area. The level of use of tap water in EHS, 2014 agrees quite well with the SVRS
2016 findings.
Use of tap water varies widely between urban and rural area. With an overall use of 14.2 percent, the
tap water users account for more than 27 percent in the urban area and only 3.9 percent in the rural
area. The corresponding use rates in 2016 were almost of the same magnitude.
2.3.2 Sources of Fuel
Straw/leaf/jute sticks or husks are the most frequently used fuels in Bangladesh accounting for about
75 percent of the total fuel use in 2017 showing that the use of these materials as fuels has been
changed over the last two years. Use of these materials was reported by 52.9 percent residents of the
urban area and 92.9 percent of the rural area. Division-wise distribution shows that Dhaka division
has the least (62.3%) use of these fuels, while the highest use (86.9%) was reported in Rangpur
division. The overall use of gas is only 23.1 percent in 2017 showing an increase of about 13 percent
over the last one year. In urban area, a little more 44.2 percent of the households have access to gas as
against 5.9 percent in rural households. Among the divisions, Dhaka has the highest use rate (36.5%)
of gas and Rangpur the lowest (9.8%). The use pattern of gas in 2017 is consistent with the one
observed in 2016 although level of use has shown some minor changes.
2.3.3 Sources of Light
The study documented an overall electricity use by about 85.3 percent of the households in 2017 as
against 81 percent in 201 6and 78 percent in 2015. The remaining 14.7 percent are solely dependent
on the kerosene and other indigenous sources. As expected, urban people are 19 percent more likely
to use electricity than their rural counterparts. Among the seven administrative divisions, Khulna
(89.6%) followed by Dhaka (88.4%) dominate in the use of electricity, while Rangpur lags behind in
this respect with a use rate of 78.7 percent. Kerosene is the second choice to the users as a fuel with an
overall use rate of 8.8 percent.
2.3.4 Toilet Facility
Three-fourths of the households have sanitary toilet facilities with (42.8%) or without (34.0%) water
seal. Rural people are more vulnerable to live without proper sanitary facilities. A little more than 68
percent of the households in rural area and than 87 percent in urban area have access to sanitary toilet
facilities with or without water seal. The national average, as reported in Education Household Survey
of 2104 is 47.7 percent with a wide gap in the use of sanitary facilities by residence: 72 percent in
urban area and 40.4 in the rural area. About 87 percent of the households in Barishal division
followed by Khulna division (82.2%) enjoy this facility. Residents in Rangpur division are the worst
sufferers with only about 65.2 percent of the houses having this facility. Use of open toilet was also
reported in some cases: 3.9 percent in the rural area and 1.0 percent in urban area with an overall use
of 2.6 percent.
2.3.5 Economic Solvency
A little over 39 percent of the households were reported to be economically solvent with 36.5 percent
in the rural area and 42.9 percent in the urban area. More than one-third (34.6%) of the households
have been able to maintain a balanced livelihood. This was of the same magnitude in 2016. Permanent
insolvency prevails among 8.8 percent of the surveyed population. It is more prevalent (10.4%)
among the rural households than among the urban households (6.8%). Keeping consistency with the
previous year‘s level, Rangpur suffers most (13.2%) from permanent insolvency, while Dhaka the
least (5.9%).

2.3.6 Structure of Living House and Living Space
Table 2.5 displays the distribution of households by type of structure of living house .The structure of
house or housing in Bangladesh was predominantly corrugated iron sheet (CIS) or wood made. Our
survey findings suggest that, nearly 45 percent of the households are made up of either CIS or wood.
Urban households are about half as likely (28.3%) as the rural households (57.9%) to make use of CIS
or wood there being no structural changes in the use of these materials in the recent past. Closed to 21
percent of the households have pucca building. A little more than one third of the households in the
urban area and only about 8 percent households in the rural have pucca buildings. Semi-pucca living
structures are also found in about a quarter of the households, of which about 18.8 percent were found
in the rural area and 30.8 percent in urban area. Use of CIS/wood structures are pronounced in
Barishal division with 65.5 percent living structures being made up of CIS or wood, followed by
Dhaka (53.9%), Rangpur (52.8%) and Chattogram (50.3%). Use of tin/wood in the living structures is
the least (28.4%) in Sylhet division. Semi-pucca structures are more common in Sylhet division
(35.1%) followed by Khulna division (32.8%). Mud, bamboo and other ingredients are also used
which account for about 10 percent of the households.
Average floor space per household was measured to be 402 square feet with 383 square feet in rural
area and 421 square feet in urban area. Keeping consistency with the floor space, the overall per
capita bed room space was 94 sqauare feet, 89 square feet in rural area and 101 square feet in urban
area
Table 2.5: Distribution of households by type of structure of living house and by locality,
SVRS 2017
Residence Division
Structure of Total Rural Urban Barish Chattogra Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet
living house al m
Building (Pucca) 20.9 8.4 36.4 19.8 21.1 23.4 25.8 21.1 9.8 24.3
Semi-Pucca 24.3 18.8 30.8 14.3 16.6 18.9 33.8 28.7 27.8 35.1
CIS/Wooden 44.5 57.9 28.3 65.5 50.3 53.9 25.4 29.0 52.8 28.4
Mud 8.1 12.3 2.9 0.1 7.6 3.3 11.7 18.9 6.6 10.7
Bamboo 2.1 2.5 1.6 0.3 4.4 0.4 3.3 2.2 2.9 1.5
Others 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
2.4 Age-sex Composition of the Household Population

The age composition of a population is a very important factor in determining its socio-economic
well-being of a country. Table 2.6 below shows the household population of the SVRS area by age
and sex in percentages as enumerated in 2017. The population in the sample vital registration area as
enumerated in 2017 consists of 627068 males and 625513 females resulting in a sex ratio 100.2 males
per 100 females, a ratio closed to the one obtained in 2016. The current year‘s sex agrees exactly with
the one obtained in 2011 census. The 2011 BDHS reported even more smaller ratio (93.1%) than both
of the above mentioned sources.

The age distribution presented in Table 2.6 in SVRS area for 2017 shows that less than one third
(29.4%) of the population is under 15 years of age, which is somewhat less (30.8%) than what was
reported in 2016. People aged 65 years and over constitute 5.1 percent of the total population. The
corresponding proportions are 33.4 percent and 5.6 percent in the 2014 BDHS (to be checked) and
35.5 percent and 5.1 percent in 2011 census.
The age-sex structure of the population by 5 year age groups is displayed by the population pyramid
in Figure 2.1.
Table 2.6: Percent distribution of sample population by age and sex, SVRS 2017
Age group Male Female Both sexes
0-4 8.5 8.4 8.5
5-9 9.9 9.9 9.9
10-14 11.1 10.9 11.0
15-19 10.8 9.1 9.9
20-24 8.1 9.5 8.8
25-29 8.0 9.5 8.7
30-34 7.7 8.5 8.1
35-39 7.4 7.4 7.4
40-44 6.3 5.9 6.1
45-49 5.9 4.8 5.3
50-54 4.7 4.9 4.8
55-59 3.6 3.4 3.5
60-64 3.0 2.8 2.9
65+ 5.2 5.0 5.1
<15 29.5 29.2 29.3
15–64 65.3 65.8 65.6
65+ 5.2 5.0 5.1
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
N 627068 625513 1252581

Figure 2.1: Age –sex pyramid of SVRS population, SVRS 2017
The pyramid shown in Figure 2.1 is a typical one for a developing country (that has recently started to
stabilize) with its base wider at the bottom than at the top and goes narrower towards the older age
groups.
2.4.1 Quality of Age-Sex Reporting
The data collected in SVRS have been evaluated to shed light on the quality of age reporting.
Particular attention has been given to assess the quality of age data, which are of primary importance
in estimating most of the demographic rates and ratios. Three popular indices viz. Myer‘s index,
Whipple‘s index and UN Age-Sex Accuracy Index, also called UN Joint Score have been computed
from reported age distributions by sex for this purpose. Apart from the use of those indices in
assessing the quality of age reporting, graphs may also be used to do the same.
Index 2014 2015 2016 2017

Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
Whipple 91.0 88.4 - 92.1 90.5 - 92.7 91.0 - 91.7 89.0 -
Myers 8.4 10.0 - 5.6 6.4 - 3.2 3.7 - 3.4 3.9 -
UN Joint Score - 62.3 - 56.4 - 56.3 - 50.6
Figure 2.2 displays the single year age distribution by sex. The figure shows a common feature of
conspicuous age heaping with digits ending in 0 and 5 with subsidiary heaping at ages 2 and 8.
The Myers‘ index and Whipple‘s index are based on single year age distribution by sex. The five year
age distribution was further assessed by what is known as age-sex accuracy index developed by
United Nations. This index is computed from the age ratios and sex ratios

Figure 2.2: Graph showing the age-sex distribution of SVRS population in single years,
SVRS 2017
Whipple‘s index is a summary measure of the degree of heaping on the ages ending in digits 0 and 5.
It is calculated by summing the population recorded with ages 0 and 5 between an arbitrary age-range
23 to 62 years and dividing the result by one-fifth of the total population between 23 and 62 expressed
as percentage. Thus if there is no heaping whatever on the 0‘s and 5‘s, Whipple‘s index would be
approximately 100; if the heaping were such that the entire population was reported at these ages, the
index would be 500. The Whipple‘s indices calculated from the age distribution for 2017 SVRS are
91.7 for males and 89.0 for females, showing virtually no sex differentials in age heaping. The 2016
SVRS data recorded these indices to be 92.7 for males and 91.0 for females. The corresponding
indices for 2011 census were 256.7 for males and 267.6 for females. Based on the UN evaluation
criteria, the age reporting in the 2011 census was very rough and thus unusable without adjustment.
The SVRS age reporting based on the same criteria falls yet under the ‗rough‘ category.
Myers‘ index reflects the preferences or dislikes for each of ten digits, from 0 to 9. To determine such
preferences, the first step in Myers‘ method consists in the computation of a ‗blended‘ population in
which ordinarily almost equal sums are to be expected for each digit. This being the case, the
‗blended‘ totals for each of the ten digits should be very nearly 10 percent of the grand total. The
deviations of each sum from 10 percent of the grand total are added together disregarding the sign,
and their sum is the Myers‘ index. The index was calculated for the SVRS 2017 single year data. The
indices were 3.4 for males and 3.9 for females, implying somewhat better age reporting of age in 2017
compared to 2015. The indices calculated from the 2011 sample census data were 26.7 for males and
28.0 for females. Based on these indices, SVRS age reporting appears to be better than the census age
reporting. The overall impression is that age reporting in SVRS area is demonstrating a trend towards
better reporting since 2014.
The use of UN formula led to a value of 50.6 for the index for 2017. This index was 56.3 in 2016
level. This reflects that the quality of age reporting has improved over the last three years.
The age composition of the population by urban-rural residence is shown in Table 2.7. While 30.7
percent of the population in rural area remains under 15 years, this proportion in urban area is 27.7
percent. The population at age 65+ also shows a difference of 1.3 percentage-points: 5.7 percent in
rural area and 4.4 percent in urban area. Three possible factors may be in interplay to result in these
variations: fertility, mortality and migration.

The age-sex distributions of the population by administrative divisions are shown in Table 2.8.
Table 2.7: Percent distribution of sample population by age, sex and residence, SVRS 2017
Age group Rural Urban
Male Female Both sexes Male Female Both sexes
0-4 8.8 8.8 8.8 8.1 8.0 8.1
5-9 10.2 10.3 10.2 9.5 9.3 9.4
10-14 11.8 11.5 11.6 10.2 10.1 10.2
15-19 11.3 8.8 10.1 10.1 9.4 9.8
20-24 8.0 9.0 8.5 8.1 10.1 9.1
25-29 7.6 8.9 8.3 8.5 10.3 9.4
30-34 7.2 8.2 7.7 8.3 9.0 8.6
35-39 6.8 7.1 7.0 8.0 7.9 8.0
40-44 5.9 5.8 5.9 6.9 6.1 6.5
45-49 5.5 4.6 5.1 6.2 5.1 5.7
50-54 4.5 5.0 4.7 5.0 4.8 4.9
55-59 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.1 3.4
60-64 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.6 2.8
65+ 5.8 5.5 5.7 4.5 4.3 4.4
<15 30.8 30.7 30.7 27.7 27.5 27.7
15–64 63.4 63.9 63.6 67.8 68.2 68.0
65+ 5.8 5.5 5.7 4.5 4.3 4.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100. 100.0 100.0
N 350796 349505 700301 276272 276008 552280
As shown by the data in Table 2.8, Chattogram followed by Sylhet divisions appears to be the most
conducive to high fertility as they have the most young age structures with 32.5 and 32.2 percent of
their populations falling under 15 years of age. The implication of these high proportions of
population below 15 years is that Sylhet and Chattogram divisions will have high dependency burden
with more inactive populations. It is also an indication of relatively high fertility in these two
divisions compared to other administrative divisions.
Table 2.8: Percent distribution of sample population by age, sex and division, SVRS 2017
Age group Geographic division
Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet
0-4 8.4 9.4 8.7 7.5 7.6 8.2 8.9
5-9 9.5 10.9 10.1 8.7 8.8 9.3 11.1
10-14 10.8 12.2 11.0 9.7 9.8 10.7 12.2
15-19 9.7 10.7 9.6 9.4 9.3 9.8 10.9
20-24 8.4 9.3 8.7 8.4 8.4 8.6 9.4
25-29 8.3 8.6 9.1 8.5 8.7 8.7 8.9
30-34 7.9 7.6 8.3 8.4 8.6 8.4 7.4
35-39 7.5 6.6 7.5 7.9 8.1 7.7 6.6
40-44 6.3 5.6 5.9 6.7 7.0 6.3 5.4
45-49 5.4 4.6 5.2 6.3 6.1 5.6 4.6
50-54 5.0 4.2 4.7 5.3 5.3 5.0 4.3
55-59 3.5 3.0 3.3 4.0 4.0 3.8 2.9
60-64 3.2 2.6 2.8 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.6
65+ 5.9 4.7 4.9 5.8 5.4 4.9 4.6

Age group Geographic division
Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet
<15 28.8 32.5 29.9 25.9 26.3 28.2 32.2
15–64 65.3 62.8 65.2 68.3 68.4 66.9 63.1
65.+ 5.9 4.7 4.9 5.8 5.4 4.9 4.6
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
N 129039 211013 287347 149347 164029 159125 152681
2.5 A Few More Population Compositions and Household Characteristics

Table 2.9 summarizes a number of background characteristics of the population that include, among
others, the sex composition, sex ratio, dependency ratio, religion, literacy rate, marital status
according to the present residence and administrative divisions.
2.5.1 Sex Composition
Sex composition of a population refers to the proportional share of the males and females in the total
population. It also shows the excess or deficit of one sex over the other. Table 2.9 shows the sex
composition of the population in the SVRS area. Overall, the males outnumbered the females by 0.2
percentage points or 0.4 percent resulting from a male-female ratio of 50.1 to 49.9. This feature is
prevalent across regions of residence and the geographic divisions without any exception.
Surprisingly, the ratio of males to females exactly agrees with the 2011 sample census results.
2.5.2 Dependency Ratio
The most widely used summary measure of age-sex composition is the dependency ratio. The ratio
measures the fraction of dependents in a population. In other words, the dependency ratio measures
the number of inactive people whom each economically active person has to support. Dependents
refer to people who are not in the workforce, such as those who are either too young or too old to
work. This measure is defined in this report as the ratio of population aged 0–14 years and 65 years
and over to the population aged 15–64 years old multiplied by 100, although other variants of this
definition are used to compute dependency ratio. The overall dependency ratio is 53 percent, meaning
that 53 inactive persons are dependent on 100 economically active persons. More people (57%) in the
rural area than in urban area (47%) are dependent on the work force. The dependency ratio varies
from as low as 46 percent each in Rajshahi and Khulna divisions to as high as 59 percent in
Chattogram division. The results are summarized in Table 2.9. The dependency ratio as obtained in
2011 sample census was 68.4 percent, while the Education Household Survey of 2014 reported this
ratio to be 61.1 percent.
2.5.3 Child-Woman Ratio
The child-woman ratio (CWR) is the number of children of both sexes under five-years of age per
1000 women aged 15-49 at a given moment of time. Because the computation of this ratio only
requires census-type data on the population by age and sex, it provides an index of fertility when
reliable birth statistics are not available. These ratios by residence and division are presented in Table
2.9. The overall CWR is 310 per 1000 women: 336 in the rural area and 279 in the urban area. The
ratio was the highest in Chattogram division (343) and the lowest (268) in Khulna division. The
corresponding 2011 census estimate for the nation as a whole is 392 per 1000 women. The overall
ratio was 320 in 2016 SVRS showing on 3.1 percent decrease in CWR in a short period of one year.

2.5.4 Religious Composition
As reported in 2017 round of SVRS survey, 88.4 percent of the population in Bangladesh are Muslims
and the remaining 11.6 percent are the believers of other religions, a result which exactly agrees with
previous year‘s religious composition. Rural-urban variation in religious composition is of little
significance. Muslims dominate Rajshahi and Dhaka divisions with about 93 percent of the population
of these divisions being of this religion. Compared to other divisions, the proportion of Muslim
population is the lowest in Sylhet division (80.4%).
2.5.5 Literacy Rate
The SVRS collects information on the literacy of both men and women on regular basis. Literacy is
an important element in shaping the lifestyle of individuals and the societies at large. Women‘s
education is of particular importance since it is closely associated with their status in the family.
Women‘s education empowers women in the decision-making process, and educates them with better
knowledge of health and hygiene for a healthy family.
In the SVRS, a person has been defined as literate if he/she is able to write a simple letter. The crude
literacy rates obtained thus are presented in Table 2.9 for the population under study. The overall
crude rate comes out to 64 percent. Proportionately more males (65.8%) than females (62.3%) are
literate. The literacy rate is significantly higher (70.8%) among the urban population than among the
rural population (58.7%). Barishal division has the highest rate of literacy (72.6%), followed by
Khulna division with a literacy rate of 66.4 percent. The lowest literacy rate (61.9%) prevails among
the people of Dhaka division. At the divisional levels male-female differentials in literacy rate are of
little significance. It is worth to note that the crude literacy as obtained in 2017 is highly consistent
with rates obtained in 2016 round of survey.
The data on adult literacy were utilized to compute two variants of literacy rate: one for those who are
age 7 and over and the other for those who are 15 years and over. In both the cases, ability to write a
letter was regarded as the qualification of a person to be reckoned as literate. In computing either of
these rates, the total populations in the denominator were populations aged 7 and over or 15 and over.
The literacy rate for population aged 7 years and over is 72.3 percent. The corresponding rate for
those who are 15 years and over is 72.9 percent. The reported rates as obtained in the Education
Household Survey for 2014 are respectively 59.1 percent and 58.6 percent.
As the results in Table 2.9 shows, in both the cases (7+ or 15+), the urban literacy rates are
substantially higher than the rural rates irrespective of sex. In all cases, literacy rates derived for those
who are aged 7 years or more are lower than those calculated for those who are 15 years or more. The
results are presented in Table 2.9.
Table 2.9: A few more characteristics of the Household population, SVRS 2017
Background Residence Geographic Division
Sex composition:
Male 50.1 50.1 50.0 50.4 49.3 50.1 50.2 50.6 50.6 49.5
Female 49.9 49.9 50.0 49.6 50.7 49.9 49.8 49.4 49.4 50.5
Dependency ratio 53 57 47 53 59 53 46 46 49 58
Child woman ratio 310 336 279 315 343 320 268 274 300 331
Religious composition:
Muslim 88.4 89.0 87.5 88.5 86.3 92.4 87.4 92.5 88.0 80.4
Hindu & others 11.6 11.0 12.5 11.5 13.7 7.6 12.6 7.5 12.0 19.6
Crude literacy rate:
Background Residence Geographic Division
Both literate 64.0 58.7 70.8 72.6 63.4 61.9 66.4 62.9 62.5 62.4
Male literate 65.8 60.5 72.6 73.8 64.7 63.5 68.3 64.8 65.3 64.1
Female literate 62.3 56.9 69.1 71.3 62.2 60.2 64.4 61.0 59.6 60.7
Literacy rate 7+:
Both sexes 72.3 66.5 79.5 81.3 72.6 70.2 74.0 70.1 70.2 71.2
Male literate 74.3 68.6 81.5 82.7 74.3 72.1 76.2 72.1 73.3 73.3
Female literate 70.2 64.4 77.5 79.8 70.9 68.3 71.6 68.1 67.0 69.1
Adult Literacy 15+:
Both sexes literate 72.9 66.1 81.1 82.3 73.6 70.5 74.7 70.3 70.0 72.3
Male literate 75.7 69.0 83.8 84.3 76.2 73.1 77.6 72.9 73.8 75.5
Female literate 70.1 63.2 78.4 80.3 71.2 67.8 71.7 67.6 66.0 69.3
2.6 Sex Ratio

Human sex ratio varies not only from one country to another, but also from one population sub-group
to another within the same country. Religion, region of residence, age, race, marital status, ethnicity,
nativity are some of the population characteristics that might show considerable variations in sex
ratios. Although religious variation in the sex ratio is minimal in most cultures, urban-rural variation
is sometimes considerable. The 2017 SVRS recorded an overall sex ratio of 100.2 males per 100
females. The rural area was reported to have a sex of 100.4 as against 100.1 in the urban area. Among
the 7 administrative divisions, Rangpur showed the highest sex ratio (102.4%), while Chattogram
division the lowest (97.1%). The 2011 census of Bangladesh recorded a sex ratio of 97.9% in the rural
area while in the urban area it was as high as 109.3. The sex ratios by urban-rural residence and
geographic divisions are shown in Table 2.10.
Table 2.10: Sex ratios (percent) by residence and divisions, SVRS 2017
Background Characteristics Sex ratios
Residence:
Rural 100.4
Urban 100.1
Division:
Barishal 101.7
Chattogram 97.1
Dhaka 100.5
Khulna 100.9
Rajshahi 102.3
Rangpur 102.4
Sylhet 97.9
Total 100.2
2.7 Marital Status Composition
Marital status is a demographic characteristics involving biological social, economical, legal and in
many cases religious aspects. Marital status and its differentials play vital role in composition and
structure of a population. As the age at first marriage and the dissolution of marriage due to
widowhood, divorce and separation affect the reproductive life of women, the marital status
composition by age, sex and its differentials is vital for fertility analysis. It has direct and indirect
impact on the other demographic and socio-economic characteristics, namely migration, headship,

family formation etc. It also has impact on social and economic characteristics such as school
attendance and labor force participation in the late adolescent and young adult age groups.
The marital status composition of SVRS area by residence and geographic divisions are presented in
Table 2.11 for each sex separately. A close view of the results on marital status presented in the table
under reference shows that about 60 percent of the males and a little over 63 percent of the females
are currently married. This feature of marital status prevails in both urban and rural areas. Single
population accounts for 38.6 percent in the case of males and 26.2 percent of females. In Sylhet
division, proportions of males and females remaining single are higher (47.3% versus 34.3%)
compared to other divisions. The incidence of singleness is the least (33.9% for males and 22.1% for
females) in Rajshahi division. The incidence of widowhood is more prevalent among the women
(9.1%) than among the men (1.1%) for the overall sample. Women are at higher risk (1.4%) than their
male counterparts (0.4) to end their marriage in divorce.
Table 2.11: Marital status by residence and geographic division, SVRS 2017
Background Residence Division
Male:
Single 38.6 38.9 38.2 37.5 44.2 37.2 34.6 33.9 36.1 47.3
Currently married 59.9 59.6 60.3 60.8 54.6 61.4 63.8 64.5 62.4 51.3
Widowed 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.3 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.1
Divorced/separated 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.3
Female:
Single 26.2 25.2 27.5 25.0 29.7 25.3 22.5 22.1 24.6 34.3
Currently married 63.3 64.2 62.3 64.7 61.2 64.9 66.5 67.0 63.8 54.4
Widowed 9.1 9.3 8.8 9.1 8.1 8.5 9.3 9.2 10.2 10.0
Divorced/separated 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.2 1.0 1.3 1.7 1.8 1.4 1.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
The marital status distribution is also shown by age and sex in Table 2.12 below. A very common
feature of marital status distribution is apparent from the table: the drop in the proportions single is
steeper among females than among males as age advances. For example, while nearly 100 percent of
the males are single in age group 10–14, this drops to 96.5 percent when they are aged 15–19, and
further to about 74 percent when they reach to 20–24. The corresponding proportions among the
females are 99.3, 76.2 and 25.4 percent. The data also show that the child marriage is still prevalent
among both males and females in Bangladesh.
Table 2.12: Marital status by age and sex, SVRS 2017
Male Female
Age
Single Married Widowed Divorced/ Total Single Married Widowed Divorced/ Total
group
separated separated
10-14 99.6 0.4 0.1 0.0 100.0 99.3 0.6 0.1 0.0 100.0
15-19 96.5 3.4 0.1 0.1 100.0 76.2 23.0 0.2 0.6 100.0
20-24 73.5 25.9 0.2 0.4 100.0 25.4 72.8 0.4 1.4 100.0
25-29 35.6 63.4 0.3 0.7 100.0 7.4 90.3 0.7 1.5 100.0
30-34 11.2 87.8 0.4 0.7 100.0 2.1 94.9 1.4 1.6 100.0
35-39 3.1 95.9 0.4 0.6 100.0 1.1 94.2 3.0 1.7 100.0
40-44 1.5 97.3 0.7 0.5 100.0 0.8 91.0 6.3 2.0 100.0
45-49 1.0 97.5 1.1 0.5 100.0 0.6 86.3 10.9 2.2 100.0
50-54 0.8 97.6 1.2 0.4 100.0 0.5 78.4 18.9 2.1 100.0

Male Female
Age
Single Married Widowed Divorced/ Total Single Married Widowed Divorced/ Total
group
separated separated
55-59 0.5 97.2 1.9 0.4 100.0 0.4 70.8 26.9 1.8 100.0
60-64 0.6 95.8 3.2 0.4 100.0 0.5 56.4 41.4 1.7 100.0
65+ 0.7 90.4 8.5 0.4 100.0 3.2 33.4 61.8 1.7 100.0
Total 38.6 59.9 1.1 0.4 100.0 26.2 63.3 9.1 1.4 100.0
The marital status composition of the sample population by age sex and urban-rural residence are
shown in Table 2.13 and Table 2.14. The age patterns of marital status presented in the tables under
reference are in close agreement with the overall pattern presented in two previous tables (Table 2.10
and Table 2.11)
Table 2.13: Marital status by age and residence, SVRS 2017: Males
Rural Urban
Age group Single Married Widowed Divorced/ Total Single Married Widowed Divorced/ Total
separated separated
10-14 99.6 0.3 0.1 0.0 100.0 99.5 0.4 0.1 0.0 100.0
15-19 95.7 4.1 0.1 0.1 100.0 97.5 2.3 0.1 0.1 100.0
20-24 70.2 29.1 0.2 0.5 100.0 77.7 21.8 0.2 0.3 100.0
25-29 31.4 67.6 0.3 0.7 100.0 40.5 58.6 0.3 0.6 100.0
30-34 9.0 89.9 0.4 0.8 100.0 13.5 85.4 0.4 0.7 100.0
35-39 2.4 96.6 0.3 0.7 100.0 3.9 95.1 0.4 0.6 100.0
40-44 1.1 97.7 0.6 0.5 100.0 2.0 96.7 0.7 0.5 100.0
45-49 0.8 97.8 1.0 0.4 100.0 1.2 97.0 1.2 0.5 100.0
50-54 0.6 97.9 1.0 0.4 100.0 1.0 97.3 1.4 0.4 100.0
55-59 0.5 97.3 1.8 0.3 100.0 0.6 97.0 2.0 0.4 100.0
60-64 0.5 96.0 3.1 0.4 100.0 0.7 95.5 3.4 0.3 100.0
65+ 0.5 90.8 8.3 0.5 100.0 0.9 89.9 8.8 0.4 100.0
Total 38.9 59.6 1.1 0.4 100.0 38.2 60.3 1.1 0.4 100.0
Table 2.14: Marital status by age and residence, SVRS 2017: Females
Rural Urban
Age group
Single Married Widowed Div/sep Total Single Married Widowed Div/sep Total
10-14 99.2 0.6 0.1 0.0 100.0 99.4 0.5 0.1 0.0 100.0
15-19 73.6 25.5 0.2 0.7 100.0 79.2 20.1 0.2 0.5 100.0
20-24 19.0 79.1 0.3 1.5 100.0 32.7 65.6 0.4 1.3 100.0
25-29 4.8 93.0 0.7 1.5 100.0 10.3 87.4 0.7 1.5 100.0
30-34 1.3 95.8 1.3 1.6 100.0 3.2 93.7 1.5 1.6 100.0
35-39 0.7 94.8 2.8 1.7 100.0 1.5 93.4 3.3 1.8 100.0
40-44 0.6 91.6 6.1 1.7 100.0 1.0 90.2 6.5 2.3 100.0
45-49 0.3 87.8 10.1 1.8 100.0 0.9 84.5 11.9 2.7 100.0
50-54 0.3 79.6 18.1 2.0 100.0 0.8 76.8 20.1 2.3 100.0
55-59 0.3 72.6 25.4 1.7 100.0 0.7 68.3 29.1 2.0 100.0
60-64 0.5 58.8 39.1 1.5 100.0 0.5 52.8 44.6 2.0 100.0
65+ 1.5 36.3 60.6 1.5 100.0 5.9 28.6 63.7 1.8 100.0
Total 25.2 64.2 9.3 1.3 100.0 27.5 62.3 8.8 1.5 100.0
2.8 Educational Attainment
Among the socio-economic differentials in influencing the demographic parameters of a population,

literacy and educational attainment of the individuals are considered as the most important

characteristics. They influence individual‘s knowledge, attitudes and codes of ethical behavior that
guide moral choices about our relationship with others. Education enhances the ability of an
individual to achieve desired demographic and health goals. Table 2.15 and Table 2.16 present a
complete scenario of the literacy rates of the household population by age, sex and some selected
background characteristics. As we note in Table 2.15, about 28 percent of the males and 32 percent of
the females of age 5 years and above were reported to be Illiterate as per definition adopted in SVRS
the overall illiteracy rate being estimated to be 30 percent. A marked variation of this rate was noted
between the rural area and urban area: 35.6 percent and 23.0 percent. Sex differentials are also
pronounced in literacy rate between the urban and rural areas. For example, while about 21 percent of
males in the urban area are illiterate, the extent of this illiteracy remains prevalent in about 33.6
percent of the cases among the rural males. This difference in illiteracy is even more pronounced
among the females: 24.9 percent in urban area and 37.6 percent in rural area. The scenario is almost
identical when literacy is measured for those who are age 7 years and over (see Table 2.16).
Educational attainment of the population surveyed by a few selected background characteristics, viz.
age, place of residence, administrative division, and religion has been presented in Table 2.17 and
Table 2.18. As the data in tables under reference reveal, proportionately more females (24.6%) than
the males (20.3%) were completely deprived of attending school in their life time. A little more than
34 percent of the males and 32.5 of the females had the opportunity to go to the primary schools but
nearly one fifth of them failed to complete primary level of education. Closed to one fourth of the
males and one fifth of the females were fortunate enough to complete secondary and higher level of
schooling. Illiteracy is more prevalent among the females across all the background characteristics
than their male counterpart males. Rural residents are more in proportion to remain illiterate than the
residents in the urban area. Illiteracy among males is more prevalent in Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions,
where at least 23 percent of them had never gone to school. Barishal division tops the other divisions
in literacy where two thirds of the male population of this division completed at least primary level of
education. This is by and large true for the females also. Muslims lag behind the followers of other
religions in educational attainment without any sex discrimination.
Table 2.15: Literacy rate of population 5+ years by broad age group sex and residence,
SVRS 2017
Age Total Rural Urban
group Both sex Male Female Both sex Male Female Both sex Male Female
5 6.3 6.3 6.4 5.2 5.4 5.0 7.9 7.6 8.2
6 27.7 27.1 28.2 26.0 25.5 26.5 29.9 29.3 30.5
7 20.1 20.7 19.5 16.9 16.4 17.5 24.5 26.6 22.4
8 33.2 32.9 33.6 28.0 28.0 28.0 40.6 39.8 41.5
9 50.0 49.3 51.8 46.3 45.1 47.5 56.7 55.5 58.0
5-9 27.9 27.6 28.2 24.9 24.5 25.3 32.0 31.8 32.2
10-14 89.2 87.7 90.7 88.6 86.9 90.2 90.1 88.8 91.4
15-24 92.9 91.5 94.4 92.0 90.4 93.8 94.1 93.0 95.0
25-59 70.0 73.1 67.0 61.6 64.6 58.8 79.6 82.6 76.6
60+ 41.6 53.1 29.3 32.2 43.0 21.0 56.0 68.4 42.3
Total 70.0 71.9 68.0 64.4 66.4 62.4 77.0 79.0 75.1

Table 2.16: Literacy rate of population 7+ years by broad age group sex and residence,
SVRS 2017
Age Total Rural Urban
group Both sex Male Female Both sex Male Female Both sex Male Female
7 20.1 20.7 19.5 16.9 16.4 17.5 24.5 26.6 22.4
8 33.2 32.9 33.6 28.0 28.0 28.0 40.6 39.8 41.5
9 50.6 49.3 51.8 46.3 45.1 47.5 56.7 55.5 58.0
7-9 34.7 34.4 35.1 30.6 30.0 31.2 40.6 40.6 40.6
10-14 89.2 87.7 90.7 88.6 86.9 90.2 90.1 88.8 91.4
15-24 92.9 91.5 94.4 92.0 90.4 93.5 94.1 93.0 95.0
25-59 70.0 73.1 67.0 61.6 64.6 58.8 79.6 82.6 76.6
60+ 41.6 53.1 29.3 32.2 43.0 21.0 56.0 68.4 42.3
Total 72.3 74.3 70.2 66.5 68.6 64.4 79.5 81.5 77.5
Table 2.17: Educational attainment of the household population, SVRS 2017: Males
Level of education
Background
None Primary Primary Secondary Secondary complete or Total
Characteristics
Incomplete complete incomplete higher
Age group:
5-9 36.6 61.2 2.3 0.0 0.0 100.0
10-14 3.1 38.0 20.8 36.4 1.6 100.0
15-19 5.1 10.5 9.1 44.6 30.7 100.0
20-24 7.4 11.5 14.1 19.1 48.0 100.0
25-29 11.0 11.7 17.4 24.1 35.7 100.0
30-34 15.9 11.9 17.2 24.1 30.9 100.0
35-39 21.4 12.2 16.1 20.1 30.2 100.0
40-44 27.5 12.2 14.6 17.2 28.4 100.0
45-49 31.3 12.1 13.6 16.0 26.9 100.0
50-54 33.6 12.5 13.3 15.5 25.0 100.0
55-59 35.4 12.1 13.1 15.3 24.1 100.0
60-64 38.0 11.4 12.6 14.4 23.5 100.0
65+ 43.5 12.2 12.6 12.0 19.7 100.0
Residence:
Rural 24.6 22.5 14.3 21.9 16.7 100.0
Urban 15.0 17.8 12.2 21.5 33.5 100.0
Division:
Barishal 12.3 21.5 15.0 22.5 28.7 100.0
Chattogram 19.6 23.2 13.4 23.0 20.9 100.0
Dhaka 22.9 19.5 13.3 21.1 23.3 100.0
Khulna 18.4 20.3 11.9 23.9 25.6 100.0
Rajshahi 22.9 18.0 12.6 20.7 25.8 100.0
Rangpur 21.8 19.4 12.2 21.1 25.4 100.0
Sylhet 21.0 21.3 15.9 20.3 21.5 100.0
Religion:
Muslim 20.9 20.7 13.5 21.4 23.6 100.0
Hindu 15.3 18.4 12.8 24.7 28.8 100.0
Buddhist 26.4 20.1 9.9 21.2 22.4 100.0
Christian 16.4 15.7 9.7 25.3 33.0 100.0
Others 33.0 38.2 12.0 12.0 4.7 100.0
Total 20.3 20.4 13.7 21.4 24.1 100.0

Table 2.18: Educational attainment of the household population, SVRS 2017: Females
Level of education
Background
None Primary Primary Secondary Secondary complete or Total
Characteristics
Incomplete complete incomplete higher
Age group:
5-9 36.1 63.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 100.0
10-14 2.0 33.9 21.3 40.1 2.7 100.0
15-19 2.9 5.1 7.3 51.0 33.7 100.0
20-24 6.1 7.1 13.1 30.6 43.1 100.0
25-29 10.5 9.4 16.5 32.6 30.9 100.0
30-34 17.4 11.8 16.6 29.5 24.7 100.0
35-39 26.3 13.5 16.2 22.4 21.7 100.0
40-44 36.8 14.3 15.2 16.8 16.9 100.0
45-49 41.9 14.6 14.4 14.6 14.4 100.0
50-54 50.9 13.7 13.3 12.0 10.1 100.0
55-59 53.7 13.9 12.9 10.7 8.8 100.0
60-64 59.8 13.4 11.6 8.1 7.2 100.0
65+ 66.9 11.7 9.2 7.7 4.4 100.0
Residence:
Rural 29.2 20.7 13.8 24.9 11.4 100.0
Urban 18.8 17.3 12.1 24.1 27.7 100.0
Division:
Barishal 14.6 21.7 15.9 24.4 23.4 100.0
Chattogram 23.4 20.7 12.6 26.3 17.0 100.0
Dhaka 26.9 18.7 13.2 23.6 17.5 100.0
Khulna 23.0 19.3 11.4 27.6 18.7 100.0
Rajshahi 27.3 17.1 12.5 25.1 18.1 100.0
Rangpur 28.0 18.2 10.6 23.6 19.6 100.0
Sylhet 25.5 19.3 15.8 21.3 18.2 100.0
Religion:
Muslim 24.9 19.4 13.2 24.6 17.9 100.0
Hindu 21.5 17.6 12.1 24.8 24.0 100.0
Buddhist 36.9 17.3 7.8 18.3 19.7 100.0
Christian 23.2 16.5 8.9 23.0 28.4 100.0
Others 43.6 28.4 11.4 12.3 4.3 100.0
Total 24.6 19.2 13.3 24.3 18.6 100.0
2.9 Population Composition and Household Characteristics: 2004–2017

Table 2.19 presents an overview of the trends in some selected characteristics of the population and
households in the SVRS area for the available years. These include, among others, age structure,
dependency ratio, child-woman ratio, religious composition, literacy, household size, marital status
and the like.
2.9.1 Age Structure
As reported in the SVRS, the population composition has shown a modest change since the initiation
of the registration of vital events in the sample area in 2002. For example, while the population size
under 15 years of age was reported to be 37.6 percent in 2005, the proportion reduced to 29.3 percent
in 2017. By the time, a corresponding increase was noted in the age structure at 65 years and over,

from 4.2 percent in 2005 to 5.1 percent in 2017. A similar feature of change may also be noted in the
census record, from 4.0 in 2001 to 4.7 in 2011.
2.9.2 Sex Ratio
As evidenced in the sample area, the overall sex ratios remained almost static from 2005 to 2012,
remaining in the neighborhood 105. It is only 2013 when the sex ratio began to fall from 102.6 to
100.2 in 2017. This trend in sex ratios is in line with the one reported in the census reports. Over the
last four censuses, the sex ratio fell from 106.4 percent in 1981 to 100.3 percent in 2011. The trends in
sex ratios as obtained in SVRS are shown in Figure 2.3.
2.9.3 Dependency Ratio
Dependency ratio as recorded in the SVRS, demonstrated a precipitous and continuous fall from 78
percent in 2005 to 53 percent in 2017, a more than 32 percent decline during 2005–2017. The census
population however records this fall in the neighborhood of 7 percent, from 73 percent in 2001 to 68.4
percent in 2011.
There has been a consistent fall in the child-woman ratios in the sample vital registration area. Since
2005, the ratio has shown a decline of over 29 percent, from 439 in 2005 per 1000 women to 310 per
one thousand women in 2017. The comparable decline as recorded in the census enumerations was
over 24 percent, from 519 per 1000 women in 2001 to 392 per 1000 women in 2011. A graphical
view of the trends in CWR is shown in Figure 2.5
2.9.5 Religious Composition
For many years in the past, the Bangladeshi people are predominantly Muslims. Since the initiation of
the SVRS program in 2003, 89.6 percent of the populations were Muslims and this proportion
remained almost unchanged till 2010 (89.5%). For the last three years (2015–2017), the proportion
remains in the neighborhood of 88.4 percent.
2.9.6 Literacy Rate
The literacy rate for population aged 7 years and over increased from 52.1 percent in 2005 to 72.3
percent in 2017, amounting to an increase of about 39 percent in 13 years. The increase in female
literacy compared to male literacy was more pronounced.
The adult literacy rate for population aged 15 years and over increased by 36 percent over the period
2005–2017 from 53.5 percent in 2005 to 72.9 percent in 2017. The increase in female literacy was
much higher (44%) than that of the increase among the males (30%) during the same period.
2.9.7 Household Size
In line with the trends in fertility in Bangladesh, the average household size is also depicting a
moderate decline over the last 13 years since 2005. As the statistics presented in Table 2.19 show, the
average size of the household in 2005 was 4.7 persons, which decreased to 4.2 in 2017.
2.9.8 Headship Status
The household headship rates virtually remained constant over the period 2005–2008 centering
around a male-female ratio of 90 percent to 10 percent, which thereafter demonstrated a modest
increase in favor of females: from 12.9 percent in 2009 to 14.2 percent in 2017.

2.9.9 Household Structure
The structural changes in the households over the last 13 years have been erratic. While 11 percent of
the households in 2005 were pucca buildings, this decreased to 8.7 percent in 2010 and thereafter
began to increase reaching to 20.9 percent in 2017. The corresponding increase in the semi-pucca
households was from 11.1 percent in 2005 to 24.3 percent in 2017. As a result of this increase in
pucca and semi-pucca households, the proportions of CIS/wooden structures decreased from 53.3
percent in 2005 to 44.5 percent in 2017.
2.9.10 Sources of Water
For drinking purposes, the extent of the use of tap or tube-well water has not shown any notable
change over the last 13 years, as shown in Table 2.19, while for other purposes, the proportion of
households using these sources increased from 53.9 percent in 2005 to 69.3 percent in 2017.
2.9.11 Sources of Light
Use of kerosene has decreased considerably over the period 2005–2017, from 56.5 percent in 2005 to
8.0 percent in 2017, a decrease of about 86 percent in 13 years. Correspondingly, the use of electricity
has shown a more than 96 percent increase during this time interval: from 43.5 percent in 2005 to 85.3
percent in 2017
2.9.12 Use of Fuel
A close examination of the data presented in Table 2.19 shows that there has been virtually no
changes in any kind of fuel in the extent of use of fuels during the period under study
2.9.13 Economic Solvency
Economic solvency made a remarkable progress over the last 13 years. For example, while 19.2
percent of the households were reported to be economically solvent in 2005, the proportion increased
to about more than 39 percent in 2017, more than two-fold increase over the period under reference.
2.9.14 Toilet facilities
Use of sanitary toilet facilities has shown an increase of over 43 percent during 2005–2017.
Correspondingly, use of open and facilities has decreased considerably.
Table 2.19: Trends in some selected household and population characteristics,

SVRS 2005–2017
Background Year
Characteristics 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Age structure:
Under15 37.6 36.6 34.9 37.4 33.3 33.1 31.9 31.1 32.3 31.7 30.8 30.8 29.3
15–64 58.2 59.3 61.0 57.9 62.3 62.4 63.5 64.2 63.2 63.5 64.6 64.6 65.6
65 & over 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.7 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.5 4.7 4.6 4.6 5.1
Sex ratio 105.0 105.0 105.2 105.0 104.9 105.0 104.9 104.9 102.6 100.5 100.3 100.3 100.2
Dependency ratio 78 76 70 67 66 65 57 56 58 57 55 54 53
Child-woman ratio 439 424 398 380 375 369 341 327 356 355 325 320 310
Religion:
Muslim 89.3 89.3 89.4 89.4 89.4 89.5 88.8 88.8 89.1 89.2 88.2 88.4 88.4
Non-Muslim 10.7 10.7 10.6 10.6 10.6 10.5 11.2 11.2 10.9 10.8 11.8 11.6 11.6

Background Year
Literacy 7+:
Both sexes 52.1 52.5 56.1 55.8 56.7 56.8 55.8 56.3 57.2 58.6 63.6 71.0 72.3
Male 55.4 55.8 59.4 60.8 59.6 59.8 58.4 59.2 59.3 60.7 65.6 73.0 74.3
Female 48.8 49.1 52.7 52.7 53.8 53.9 53.2 53.3 55.1 56.6 61.6 68.9 70.2
Literacy15+:
Both sexes 53.5 53.7 56.3 56.9 58.4 58.6 58.8 60.7 61.0 61.4 64.6 72.3 72.9
Male 58.3 58.5 63.1 61.3 62.6 62.9 62.5 64.8 64.2 64.7 67.6 75.2 75.7
Female 48.6 48.8 53.5 52.6 54.3 55.4 55.1 56.6 51.8 58.2 61.6 69.5 70.1
Household size 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.5 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.2
Headship status:
Male headed 89.6 89.6 88.7 89.3 87.1 87.1 86.7 85.5 88.4 87.8 87.3 87.2 85.8
Female headed 10.4 10.4 10.3 10.3 12.9 12.9 13.3 14.5 11.6 12.2 12.7 12.8 14.2
Household structure:
Pucca 11.0 11.1 8.1 8.9 8.7 8.7 9.6 10.2 13.2 9.3 18.3 18.7 20.9
Semi-pucca 11.1 11.2 13.7 13.1 16.6 16.6 19.3 18.5 19.5 22.3 22.7 24.1 24.3
CIS/Wooden 53.3 53.3 55.1 57.1 57.0 57.0 53.9 53.9 50.7 51.1 45.0 44.8 44.5
Mud 15.5 15.4 15.4 14.3 13.1 13.1 12.2 11.7 12.4 13.5 9.7 8.7 8.1
Bamboo 8.2 8.1 7.2 6.0 3.8 3.8 4.6 5.5 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.3 2.1
Others 0.9 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.1
Sources of water:
Tap / tube-well (for
97.7 97.7 98.9 98.3 98.1 98.1 98.2 98.3 97.5 97.8 97.9 98.0 98.0
drinking purposes)
Tap /tube-well (for
53.9 53.9 55.9 54.7 54.7 55.5 60.4 60.5 63.7 63.4 68.9 69.3 69.3
other purposes)
Sources of light:
Electricity 43.5 44.3 50.7 53.4 54.4 54.6 63.6 65.6 66.9 67.8 77.9 81.2 85.3
Solar - - - - - - - - - - 5.4 5.6 5.8
Kerosene 56.5 55.7 49.3 46.7 45.6 43.1 35.4 33.1 32.3 31.4 16.3 13.0 8.8
Others - - - - - 2.3 1.9 1.3 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.1
Sources of fuel:
Straw/Leaf 41.4 41.5 42.3 38.88 37.5 42.6 39.3 40.2 36.3 36.3 30.7 31.1 30.2
Bran 4.8 4.8 4.0 4.15 5.8 5.3 4.0 - 2.8 3.7 3.0 3.8 3.5
Wood/bamboo/Khari 42.0 42.0 41.0 43.34 42.7 42.5 43.1 42.4 44.4 42.8 44.2 42.5 41.3
Kerosene 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.37 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.3
Electricity 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.47 0.6 0.9 0.4 0.6 0.9 0.7 1.1 1.0 1.0
Gas 10.3 10.3 10.5 12.05 9.8 6.7 11.0 10.4 13.9 15.1 19.7 20.5 23.1
Others 0.8 0.7 1.6 0.72 3.2 1.6 2.0 1.9 1.3 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.6
Toilet facilities:
Sanitary 53.3 55.0 54.2 62.2 62.7 63.5 62.6 63.8 64.3 63.5 73.5 75.0 76.8
Others 37.6 36.2 38.6 31.1 30.1 34.3 33.7 33.6 34.5 34.4 23.2 22.3 20.6
Open 9.1 8.9 7.2 6.6 7.2 2.2 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.1 3.3 2.7 2.6
Economic solvency 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 21.1 22.0 21.4 21.5 21.6 22.1 36.2 38.7 39.4

Figure 2.3: Trends in sex ratios, SVRS 2003-17
Figure 2.4: Trends in dependency ratios, SVRS 2003-17

Figure 2.5: Trends in child-women ratios, SVRS 2003-17
Figure 2.6: Trends in headship status, SVRS 2003-17

CHAPTER III
Fertility
3.1 Measures of Fertility
The term fertility refers to the state of being fertile, or in other words, it is the capability of producing
offspring. For a human population, it is the state of being capable to produce offspring by a woman.
Fertility is thus the frequency of childbearing among the population. The importance of fertility
measurement stems from the fact that it is one of the three principal components of population
dynamics that determine the size, structure, and composition of the population in any country. The
present chapter is designed to describe the current fertility based on the data gathered in SVRS area in
2015.
The fertility measures presented in this chapter are primarily based on the birth history data collected
from the sample households for all ever-married women aged 15–49 asking each woman a series of
questions that resulted in a reproductive history of all births to the women interviewed.
Needless to say, we have a wide variety of conventional fertility rates and ratios in current use, each
of which has advantages and limitations in particular analytic systems. In this chapter, we will discuss
a few of these measures that include, among others, the following:
a) Crude birth rate (CBR);
b) General fertility rate (GFR);
c) Age-specific fertility rate (ASFR);
d) Total fertility rate (TFR);
e) Child-women ratio (CWR); (
f) Gross reproduction rate (GRR) and
g) Net reproduction rate (NRR).
It is important to note that the last two measures are regarded as measures of reproduction but they
have close association with fertility measures listed above.
In addition to the presentation of the fertility indicators as mentioned above, an attempt has also been
made to study the fertility differentials by some selected background characteristics, such as
residence, religion, and administrative divisions. The chapter also presents an overview of the trends
in fertility over the period 1982-2017.
3.1.1 Crude Birth Rate
The crude birth rate (CBR) is the frequency of birth in a general population and is formally defined as
the number of live births during a specified period (usually a calendar year) in a delineated area per
1000 mid-year population.
Table 3.1 shows the crude birth rates (CBR) by residence, administrative division and religion as
derived from the recorded number of births and enumerated population in SVRS area. The overall
CBR was computed to be 18.5 for 2017. This is comparable with the BDHS 2014 estimate of CBR of
22.2 per 1000 population and ICDDRB‘s estimate of 20.9 for 2013. The rural CBR, as expected, is
higher (20.4) compared to the urban CBR (16.1) by a little more than four births per 1000 population.
The reported rate varies from as high as 21.3 in Chattogram to as low as 17.3 in Dhaka division. A
marked variation in CBR is also noted among the religious groups with the highest (19.0) among the
Muslims, Hindus the intermediate (16.2) and the followers of other religions, the lowest (14.0). Since
CBR is greatly influenced by the age structure of the population, it is too early to offer any firm
comment on the differences in the rates presented by population compositions. The variations in the
level of crude birth rate by districts are shown in Map 3.1 at the end of the chapter.
3.1.2 General Fertility Rate
Fertility is highly variable within sub-groups of a population. It is thus common to calculate age-
specific, age-marital status specific, and other specific fertility rates. It is rare for a child to be borne to
a woman before she reaches 15 years or at ages beyond 50 years. For this reason, one may partly
refine measurement of fertility by using the women of ages between 15 years and 49 years in the
denominator of the rates instead of the total population in the mid-year. The rate so computed is
referred to as the general fertility rate (GFR). The GFR is defined as the number of live births per year
per 1000 women of child-bearing age.
The GFR for the sample population in 2017 was 68 per 1000 women of reproductive age, 15–49. This
rate is much lower than the one (90 per 1000 women) obtained in 2014 BDHS but closed to
ICDDR,B‘s estimate of 77 for the year 2013. The rate in rural area as obtained in SVRS 2017 is
widely different from the rate in urban area: 78 versus 56. Khulna and Dhaka divisions recorded the
lowest GFR (63), the highest being recorded in Chattogram division (78). Table 3.1 shows the results
of SVRS for 2017. The variations in the level of general fertility rate by districts are displayed in Map
3.2 at the end of the chapter.
The child-woman ratio (CWR) is a relative measure of fertility. It is defined as the ratio of the number
of children of both sexes under-five years of age to the number of females of the reproductive ages
15–49 years (or sometimes 15–44 years). The CWRs calculated for the sample area are presented in
Table 3.1 by residence, division and religion. For the total sample, the child-woman ratio was found
to be 310 per 1000 women of reproductive age in 2017 as against a rate of 320 in 2016. In line with
the other estimates of fertility, the CWR for the rural area was higher (336) than for the urban area
(279). The 2011 sample census estimate of CWR is 392, while the ICDDR‘B reported a rate of 395
for 2012. In this instance too, SVRS rate is lower than the rates reported in the two sources mentioned
above, although this comparison is seriously constrained by the wide gap in reference time.
Table 3.1: Crude birth rate, general fertility rates and child-woman ratios, SVRS 2017
Background Characteristics CBR GFR CWR
Residence:
Rural 20.4 78 336
Urban 16.1 56 279
Division:
Barishal 17.8 67 315
Chattogram 21.3 78 343
Dhaka 17.3 63 320
Khulna 17.7 63 268
Rajshahi 18.1 65 274
Rangpur 18.5 68 300
Sylhet 18.8 70 331
Religion:
Muslim 19.0 70 316
Hindu 16.2 57 262

Background Characteristics CBR GFR CWR
Others 14.0 55 265
Total 18.5 68 310
3.1.4 Age-Specific Fertility Rates

The frequency of child-bearing within the more narrow age range of 15–49 (such as 15–19, 20–24
etc.) varies markedly. In fact, there is a characteristics age pattern to fertility which is very similar to
all over the world. This age pattern is best understood by computing, what we refer to as age-specific
fertility rates. The age-specific fertility rates are defined as the number of live births during a specified
period to women of reproductive period divided by the number of women lived in that age group
during the specified period. The age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) are considered as valuable
measures of fertility to assess the current age pattern of child-bearing. In the present instance, these
rates have been derived from birth history data. Table 3.2 presents the age-specific fertility rates of the
SVRS area by urban-rural residence. According to the 2017 fertility schedule, on average, women will
have a little more than 18 percent of their births before reaching age 20, 58.3 per cent during their
twenties, and 20.5 per cent during their thirties. These proportions are about of the same magnitude in
both rural and urban areas. Surprisingly, this reproductive scenario exactly matches the one observed
in 2016. The achievement of births within the specified age range by the women in the SVRS area in
2017 is consistent with the 2014 BDHS findings (BDHS 2014 Final Report). The age-specific fertility
rates are also shown for the seven administrative regions of the country in Table 3.3. The age-patterns
of these rates demonstrate the same characteristic features as of the overall pattern. The age pattern of
fertility discerned by the age-specific rates is compared in Figure 3.1 by residence with the overall
rates.
Table 3.2: ASFRs derived from births during last 12-month period by residence, SVRS
2017
Residence
Age group
Rural Urban Total
15-19 0.084 0.065 0.075
20-24 0.161 0.103 0.134
25-29 0.118 0.092 0.105
30-34 0.070 0.045 0.058
35-39 0.030 0.022 0.026
40-44 0.008 0.005 0.007
45-49 0.003 0.003 0.003
TFR* 2.37 1.68 2.05
* Total fertility rate

Figure 3.1: Age-specific fertility rates by urban rural residence, SVRS 2017
As the graphs of the ASFRs show, the women in the sample population have an early child-bearing
pattern. The age pattern of fertility discerned from the 2017 birth statistics is being observed since
long in the history of SVRS. It is worth to note that fertility is higher in the age group 20–24
irrespective of the areas. This is almost a typical pattern of all fertility schedules among the women in
Bangladesh including the BDHS, 2014, BMMHC survey, 2010 and ICDDR‘B, 2013.
Table 3.3: Age-specific fertility rates by geographic division, SVRS 2017
Age Division
group Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet Total
15-19 0.060 0.073 0.068 0.090 0.105 0.099 0.041 0.075
20-24 0.131 0.152 0.124 0.127 0.132 0.129 0.142 0.134
25-29 0.116 0.119 0.095 0.097 0.097 0.105 0.114 0.105
30-34 0.066 0.064 0.055 0.054 0.051 0.054 0.070 0.058
35-39 0.027 0.030 0.024 0.023 0.023 0.024 0.032 0.026
40-44 0.007 0.009 0.009 0.006 0.006 0.005 0.006 0.007
45-49 0.001 0.007 0.002 0.001 0.002 0.002 0.007 0.003
TFR 2.04 2.27 1.89 2.00 2.08 2.09 2.06 2.05
3.1.5 Total Fertility Rate

Total fertility rate (TFR) is a summary measure of fertility obtained by summing the age specific
fertility rates for each single year or each age group (usually of five year age groups) of women in the
child-bearing age. It states the number of children a woman would bear throughout her lifetime at the
rates specified by the schedule of age specific fertility rates for a particular year. The TFRs derived
from the 2017 SVRS data are presented in Table 3.4 by urban-rural residence, administrative division
and religion. The overall TFR for the SVRS area was computed to be 2.05 per woman. The
corresponding estimate for the BDHS of both 2011 and 2014 is 2.30. As expected, the TFR for rural
women in SVRS is higher (2.37) than among their urban counterparts (1.68) without demonstrating
any change over its 2016 round of survey. The result is in slight variation with the BDHS 2014
estimate of 2014 (2.4). Keeping consistency with the previous year‘s findings, Chattogram division
recorded the highest TFR (2.27) followed by Rangpur (2.09), the lowest being recorded for Dhaka
division (1.89). The current level of TFR by districts is shown in Map 3.3 at the end of the chapter.

3.1.6 Gross Reproduction Rate and Net Reproduction Rate
The 2015 SVRS collected data that permitted the computation of gross reproduction rate (GRR) and
net reproduction rate (NRR). The gross reproduction rate (GRR) is similar to the total fertility rate
except that it is the sum of age-specific fertility rates that include only female live births in the
numerator. It states the number of girls a woman would bear throughout her lifetime at the rates
specified by the schedule of age specific fertility rates computed from the female births only for a
particular year. The gross reproduction rates computed from the data are also presented in Table 3.4
by residence, division and religion. As expected, the GRR is higher among the rural women (1.14)
than among the urban women (0.84), the highest in Chattogram division (1.10) and the lowest in
Khulna division (0.93), the highest among the Muslim women (0.91) and least among the Hindu
women (0.83). No discernible change in TFR in 2017 has been observed from its 2016 level.
Another measure of reproduction is the net reproduction rate (NRR). Essentially, the net reproduction
rate (NRR) is a GRR adjusted for mortality. The NRR tells us: how many daughters on the average,
will be born to a hypothetical cohort of newborn girl babies during their child-bearing period, if we
take into account the mortality of the girls from the time of their birth? The net reproduction rate is a
measure of the extent to which a cohort of newly born girls will replace themselves under the given
schedules of age-specific fertility and mortality. The current year estimate of NRR is 1.0 which is
identical to the previous year‘s estimate (not shown in the table). The NRR in urban area has been
estimated to be 0.80, while it is 1.09 in the rural area. The estimate of NRR for 2017 tends to confirm
that Bangladesh has reached to the replacement level of fertility. The implication of this is that
population of Bangladesh will cease to increase in near future.
Table 3.4: TFR and GRR by residence, division and religion, SVRS 2017
Background Characteristics TFR GRR
Residence:
Rural 2.37 1.14
Urban 1.68 0.84
Division:
Barishal 2.04 1.00
Chattogram 2.27 1.10
Dhaka 1.89 1.00
Khulna 2.00 0.93
Rajshahi 2.08 1.01
Rangpur 2.09 1.01
Sylhet 2.06 1.01
Religion:
Muslim 2.06 0.91
Hindu 1.97 0.83
Others 1.90 0.87
Total 2.05 1.02
3.1. 7 Marital Fertility Rate

A major criticism of the basic fertility measures discussed so far is that they are not truly based on the
population exposed to the risk of child-bearing. They include women who have never married or who
are widowed or divorced; such women are not exposed to legitimate births or socially normal child-
bearing. A refinement that is proposed, is therefore, is to compute nuptial fertility rates, in which the
numerators refer to legitimate births and the denominators to currently married women. These rates
are called marital fertility or nuptial fertility rates. The first of this kind of rate is the general marital
fertility rate (GMFR) defined as a ratio of the number of live births among the married women to the
number of married women. The age specific fertility rates for married women will yield age-specific
marital fertility rates. Where all births are legitimate, the marital fertility rates are simply ordinary or
regular fertility rates weighted by the proportion of women who are married. When these age-specific
rates are summed over all ages, the resulting estimate is known as the total marital fertility rate. These
rates for urban-rural residence and by division are presented in Table 3.5.
The overall total marital fertility rate is 3.53, which is logically greater than the total fertility rate
(2.05). It is higher (3.76) in rural area than in urban area (3.24). It is the highest (4.51) in Sylhet
division and the lowest (3.01) in Dhaka division. The lowest marital fertility (3.35) is prevalent
among the Hindu women, while the highest is prevalent among the followers of Buddhist and
Christians.
Table 3.5: Age-specific marital fertility rates, SVRS 2017
Age Residence Division Religion
group Rural Urban Total Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet Muslim Hindu Others
15-19 0.32 0.31 0.32 0.25 0.43 0.25 0.30 0.31 0.36 0.40 0.31 0.37 0.27
20-24 0.20 0.15 0.18 0.17 0.21 0.16 0.16 0.17 0.17 0.25 0.18 0.18 0.16
25-29 0.12 0.10 0.11 0.12 0.13 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.13 0.11 0.11 0.12
30-34 0.07 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.06 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.06 0.05 0.04
35-39 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.02
40-44 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.01
45-49 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01
TMFR 3.76 3.24 3.53 3.20 4.38 3.01 3.28 3.33 3.63 4.51 3.40 3.35 4.20
3.1.8: Delivery related indicators in the SVRS area, 2017

A few more indicators related to the management of the newborns and the adolescents mothers are
provided in Table from 3.6 through Table 3.10 in this section. These indices closely related to the
recommended SDG indicators. Table 3.6 presents the place of births by administrative divisions of
Bangladesh. Of the total births (23205), a little more than 43 percent took place at home within the
sample area. Closed to 8 percent of the births were found to take place outside the sample area. It
could not however be ascertained whether these births were attended by traditional birth attendants or
trained attendants or both. About half (48.2%) of the deliveries took place either in hospitals or
(23.6%) including maternity centers. Sylhet division appears to have the highest proportion (56.3%)
of births delivered within the sample area followed by Chattogram division (53.3%). Mothers of
Chattogram division were in more proportion (30.1%) to receive delivery facilities in the hospital. A
large proportion of births ranging from as low as 8.1 percent in Chattogram division to as high as 33.6
percent in Rangpur division took place in private clinics. Use of maternity clinics remains at a
minimum in delivery of births.
Table 3.7 shows the distribution of birth attendants by their level of expertise vis-à-vis efficiency,
labeled skilled and unskilled. The table under reference shows that more than 72 percent of the
deliveries were attended by skilled birth attendants and the remaining (27.7%) by unskilled attendants.
Skilled attendants in urban area (83.8%) surpassed their rural counterparts (65.2%) by about 9
percentage points. Unskilled attendants in rural area are about twice as likely as the urban attendants
in urban area to attend a delivery.

Distribution of births to adolescents in urban and rural areas is shown in Table 3.8. Data reveal that
5.2 percent of the total births occur to the adolescent women under 18 years of age. The remaining 95
percent of the births take place among those who are considered be adult at age 18 and over. Urban-
rural differential in birth distribution is not marked. The distribution of births to these women by
administrative division depicts the same scenario. The results of this investigation appear in Table. As
shown in Table 3.10, still births occur with the highest frequency (19.2 per 1000 live births) in Sylhet
division followed by Rajshahi division (16.8 per 1000 live births). The prevalence of still births is the
lowest (4.8 per 1000 live births) in Rajshahi division.
Table 3.6: Place of birth by division, SVRS 2017
Place of birth Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet Total
Within sample area 47.9 53.3 43.9 22.1 29.9 43.4 56.3 43.3
Outside sample area 6.7 5.4 10.1 9.7 13.5 6.4 2.9 7.9
Hospital 19.1 30.1 26.8 28.6 24.0 14.2 24.1 24.6
Clinic 23.0 8.1 16.6 37.1 30.3 33.6 14.6 21.6
Maternity clinic 2.7 2.4 1.7 1.9 1.9 2.2 1.6 2.0
Others 0.6 0.6 0.9 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.6
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Table 3.7: Birth attendant by residence, SVRS 2017

Age Rural Urban Total
Skilled 65.2 83.8 72.3
Unskilled 34.8 16.2 27.7
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
Number of births 14304 8901 23205
Table 3.8: Birth to adolscent women by residence and current age, SVRS 2017
<15 0.2 0.1 0.1
15-17 5.2 4.9 5.1
18+ 94.7 95.0 94.8
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
Number of births 14304 8901 23205
Table 3.9: Birth to adoloscent women by division and current age, SVRS 2017
Age Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet Total
<15 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.1
15-17 3.1 2.8 4.7 6.5 9.6 8.3 1.5 5.1
18+ 96.6 97.1 95.2 93.4 90.0 91.5 98.4 94.8
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Table 3.10: Still birth rate (per 1000 live births) by residence and division, SVRS 2017
Residence Division
Indicator
Total Rural Urban Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet
Still birth rate 11.5 11.2 12.1 4.8 10.9 7.6 8.7 16.8 14.3 19.2

3.2 Trends in Fertility: 1982-2017
The trends in fertility over time have been examined in this section by comparing the CBR, GFR,
TFR, GRR and NRR for the overall sample since 1982. Table 3.11 presents these estimates. The
crude birth rate remained in the neighborhood of 35 till 1986, which thereafter began to decline and
reached to 19 in 2001, implying almost a 50 per cent fall in about 15 years. The rate then recorded a
slow rise for a short period of about 2 to 3 years and then started again to decline reaching to its
lowest level (18.5) as recorded in the last SVRS undertaken in 2017. The GFR also displays the same
characteristic features. Beginning with a value of as high as 164 in 1982, the rate reached to 68 in
2017 implying roughly 41 percent decline in 35 years. The TFR declined sharply from 5.21 births per
woman in 1982 to 2.05 in 2017. As the data show, the TFR has possibly reached a plateau in recent
time with a value in the neighborhood of 2.1. The GRR and NRR demonstrate the same feature of
trends as discerned by the remaining measures of fertility. A diagrammatic view of each of the rates is
shown in Figure 3.2 through Figure 3.6 to understand the fertility trends more vividly over time.
Table 3.11 Trends in fertility as observed in the SVRS area, 1982–2017
Fertility measures
Year CBR GFR TFR GRR NRR
1982 34.8 164 5.21 2.54 1.98
1983 35.0 162 5.07 2.45 1.92
1984 34.8 173 4.83 2.34 1.81
1985 34.6 156 4.71 2.20 1.79
1986 34.4 152 4.70 2.29 1.80
1987 33.3 150 4.42 2.14 1.69
1988 33.2 145 4.45 2.21 1.74
1989 33.0 144 4.35 2.10 1.72
1990 32.8 144 4.33 2.10 1.71
1991 31.6 145 4.24 2.06 1.70
1992 30.8 143 4.18 2.03 1.68
1993 28.8 138 3.84 2.01 1.57
1994 27.0 137 3.58 1.81 1.48
1995 26.5 130 3.45 1.68 1.48
1996 25.6 115 3.41 1.66 1.46
1997 21.0 110 3.10 1.52 1.37
1998 19.9 102 2.98 1.45 1.31
1999 19.2 84 2.64 1.29 1.25
2000 19.0 81 2.59 1.27 1.24
2001 18.9 80 2.56 1.26 1.23
2002 20.1 86 2.55 1.26 1.22
2003 20.9 84 2.57 1.24 1.20
2004 20.8 83 2.51 1.21 1.18
2005 20.7 82 2.46 1.19 1.17
2006 20.6 80 2.41 1.17 1.15
2007 20.9 79 2.39 1.17 1.14
2008 20.5 77 2.30 1.11 1.09
2009 19.4 72 2.15 1.07 1.06
2010 19.2 71 2.12 1.05 1.04
2011 19.2 70 2.11 1.04 1.03
2012 18.9 70 2.12 1.05 1.04

Fertility measures
Year CBR GFR TFR GRR NRR
2013 19.0 71 2.11 1.02 1.01
2014 18.9 71 2.11 1.05 1.04
2015 18.8 69 2.10 1.05 1.00
2016 18.7 69 2.10 1.02 1.00
2017 18.5 68 2.05 1.02 1.00
Birth data are also available for SVRS 2017 zilawise, from which CBR, GFR and TFR have been
computed. Mapping of such rates have been shown separately in Maps 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 respectively.
Figure 3.2 Crude birth rate (CBR) per 1000 population by locality, SVRS 2002-2017
Figure 3.3 Trends in GFR, SVRS 2002–2017
Figure 3.4 Trends in TFR, SVRS 2002–2017

Figure 3.5 Trends in GRR, SVRS 2002–2017

Figure 3.6 Trends in NRR, SVRS 2002–2017

Map 3.1: Crude birth rate (CBR) by Zila, SVRS 2017

Map 3.2: General fertility rate (GFR) by Zila, SVRS 2017

Map 3.3: Total fertility rate (TFR) by Zila, SVRS 2017

CHAPTER IV
Mortality
4.1 Measures of Mortality
Mortality rates and ratios are important demographic indicators reflecting the health situation of the
population of a country. Levels, patterns, and trends in mortality indicate the mortality scenarios,
characteristic features and extent of variation over time. Therefore, evaluation of the patterns and
determination of the levels and trends in mortality are needed for formulation of plans and
implementation of programs especially in health and poverty alleviation related sectors. Based on the
death statistics registered in the SVRS area, in 2017, this chapter is designed to provide the following
measures of mortality:
(a) Crude Death Rate;
(b) Age-Specific Death Rate;
(c) Childhood Mortality Rates;
(d) Maternal Mortality Ratio and
(e) Cause-Specific Death Rate.
4.1.1 Crude Death Rate
The simplest measure of mortality is the crude death rate (CDR), which is defined as the ratio of the
number of deaths in an area during a specified period of time to the mid-year population of that area.
The crude death rate (CDR) for the sample area was computed to be 5.1 per 1000 population in
2017.The comparable rate as observed in ICDDR‘B surveillance area in 2013 was 6.7. In rural areas,
the CDR is 5.7 as against 4.2 in the urban area. The rate varied between 4.5 in Dhaka division and 7.4
in Barishal division. The rate is the highest (6.1) among the Hindus, followed by Muslims
experiencing a rate of 5.0 as against a CBR of 4.9 amongst those who are followers of other religions.
The results are summarized in Table 4.1.
Table 4.1: Crude death rate per 1000 population by background characteristics, SVRS
2017
Background No of Population Crude
Characteristics deaths death rate
Residence:
Rural 4008 700301 5.7
Urban 2347 552280 4.2
Division:
Barishal 951 129039 7.4
Chattogram 983 211013 4.7
Dhaka 1293 287347 4.5
Khulna 739 149347 4.9
Rajshahi 864 164029 5.3
Rangpur 816 159125 5.1
Sylhet 709 152681 4.6
Religion:
Muslim 5487 1106829 5.0
Hindu 804 132632 6.1
Others 64 13120 4.9
Total 6355 1252581 5.1

The level of crude death rates by districts has been shown in Map 4.1 at the end of this chapter.
4.1.2 Age-Specific Death Rates
The age-specific death rate for persons of a given age x (or for a given age interval) is the number of
persons who died aged x in a specified year divided by the population age x in the middle of the year.
The rate is usually expressed per 1000 population per year and can be calculated for males and
females separately. The rates calculated for the sample area by age and sex based on the SVRS 2017
death statistics are shown in Table 4.2. The usual pattern of mortality by age is reflected in the rates
presented in the table under reference: it is the highest during infancy, thereafter it decreases as the
risk of dying decreases as age advances and this pattern continues roughly till age 20-24 when it
shows an upward shift due to higher risk of mortality at advanced ages. The overall pattern of the age-
specific rates is also reflected in rates presented in the same table by urban-rural residence. The age
patterns of mortality calculated for the rural, urban area and for the overall sample are compared in
Figures 4.1 & 4.2.
Table 4.2: Age specific death rates (ASDR) by residence, SVRS 2017
Rural Urban Total
Age group Male Female Both Male Female Both Male Female Both
sexes sexes sexes
<1 34.4 29.5 32.0 25.3 25.8 25.5 30.7 28.0 29.4
1-4 2.6 2.1 2.4 1.3 0.9 1.1 2.1 1.6 1.8
5-9 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.6
10-14 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.6
15-19 1.6 1.3 1.5 1.7 0.9 1.3 1.7 1.1 1.4
20-24 1.1 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.9 0.7 0.8
25-29 1.3 1.0 1.1 0.9 0.5 0.6 1.1 0.7 0.9
30-34 1.4 1.5 1.5 1.0 0.8 0.9 1.2 1.2 1.2
35-39 2.1 1.7 1.9 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.7 1.6 1.6
40-44 2.4 3.0 2.7 2.7 1.7 2.3 2.5 2.4 2.5
45-49 4.9 4.3 4.6 3.6 4.2 3.9 4.3 4.2 4.3
50-54 9.4 6.3 7.8 8.7 6.0 7.4 9.1 6.2 7.6
55-59 11.5 6.7 9.1 11.1 7.4 9.4 11.3 7.0 9.2
60-64 19.7 14.8 17.3 20.6 12.0 16.7 20.1 13.7 17.0
65-69 23.6 20.1 21.9 27.5 17.6 22.7 25.2 19.1 22.2
70-74 52.6 36.1 45.0 44.2 36.2 40.5 49.4 36.1 43.3
75-79 68.8 40.2 56.0 54.9 40.4 48.2 64.0 40.3 53.3
80+ 112.2 100.2 105.9 90.1 85.8 87.7 104.9 95.1 99.7
CDR 6.5 5.0 5.7 4.9 3.6 4.2 5.8 4.4 5.1
The overall rate under one year of age is 29.4 per 1000 population. Males appear to have a higher risk
of dying during infancy (30.7) than their female counterparts (28.0). Rural infants have at least 25
percent higher risk of dying than the infants in urban areas. In both the areas, female infants
experience lower risk of mortality than the male infants. The old age mortality, for example, at 80+ is
higher (104.9) among the males than among the females (95.1).

Figure 4.1: Age specific death rates (ASDR) by residence, SVRS 2017
Figure 4.2: Age specific death rates (ASDR) by sex, SVRS 2017
The rates by age groups are computed also for the seven administrative divisions of the country. The
resulting rates are shown in Table 4.3. As the tabular values show, Rajshahi division experienced the
highest death rate (35.3 per thousand) amongst those who are under age 1 followed by Barishal (34.0
per thousand), the lowest (25.1 per thousand) being reporteChattogramd in Chattogram division. The
old age mortality (at age 80+) is the highest (139.5) in Barishal division followed by Rajshahi (111.4).

It is the lowest (89.3) in Khulna division. This pattern is consistently prevalent at age 50 years and
above for all divisions of the country.
Table 4.3: Age-specific death rate (ASDR) per 1000 population by division, SVRS 2017
Age Barishal Chattogram Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Rangpur Sylhet
0 34.0 25.1 26.5 27.1 35.3 33.0 29.1
1 5.4 3.0 3.9 0.0 4.6 2.7 4.0
2 5.0 3.0 1.6 0.9 1.5 1.5 2.8
3 1.3 1.0 0.8 0.8 1.1 0.0 0.3
4 2.7 1.2 0.5 0.4 0.0 1.9 1.4
0-4 9.3 5.8 5.9 5.3 8.1 7.3 6.9
5-9 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.9 0.3 0.7 0.5
10-14 0.5 0.5 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.6 0.3
15-19 2.2 1.7 0.8 1.1 0.8 1.8 1.7
20-24 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.6 1.1 0.4 0.8
25-29 0.7 0.9 0.7 0.5 1.2 1.0 1.3
30-34 1.3 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.3
35-39 2.3 1.2 1.2 1.2 2.3 1.6 2.4
40-44 2.8 1.9 2.6 2.0 2.3 2.9 3.0
45-49 4.5 5.1 3.6 3.8 3.5 5.0 5.1
50-54 7.9 7.3 6.7 8.2 6.7 8.0 9.6
55-59 12.5 10.8 8.6 8.8 6.3 10.0 8.9
60-64 22.5 17.1 15.2 12.9 19.6 15.0 19.1
65-69 30.6 22.0 21.1 19.8 21.9 22.4 18.5
70-74 77.2 41.3 34.4 44.5 40.2 42.8 31.4
75-79 69.6 52.2 43.4 51.0 54.6 60.8 49.5
80+ 139.5 92.8 100.8 89.3 111.4 90.6 76.8
CDR 7.4 4.7 4.5 4.9 5.3 5.1 4.6
4.2 Early Childhood Mortality

In human population, newborns and the elderly experience the highest mortality. Mortality among
infants and children is dependent upon, among others, the medical and health care facilities provided
to the mothers and their children in the community. Infant and child mortality rates are the basic
indicators of a country‘s socio-economic situation and quality of life. They are used to monitor and
evaluate population and health program and policies. The rates of infant and childhood mortality are
also useful in identifying promising directions for health and nutrition programs.
Rates of childhood mortality vary over time in relation to changes in the epidemiological risks
(exposure to disease) nutritional deficits (susceptibility to disease and death), and the extent to which
a country‘s health and social service sectors prevent and mitigate these threats to health and survival.
The SVRS obtained information on early childhood mortality that permits the computation of the
following rates:
(a) Infant mortality rate;
(b) Neo-natal mortality rate;
(c) Post neo-natal mortality rate;

(d) Child mortality rate and
(e) Under-five mortality rate.
Since different causes affect mortality between the time of conception and the end of the first year
after birth, these periods have been divided into several sub-intervals under different measurable
indicators. The accompanying table shows some accepted sub-divisions of these periods. The table
also sub-divides the deaths beyond these periods.
Table 4.4: Sub-divisions of death by intervals
Interval Type of death Conventional rate
(a) Deaths under 4 weeks of life Neo-natal death Neo-natal mortality rate
(b) Deaths between 4 weeks and Post-Neo-natal deaths Post-Neo-natal mortality
under one year rate
(c) Deaths under one year of age Infant deaths Infant mortality rate
(d) Deaths between first and the Child deaths Child mortality rate
fifth birth day
(e) Deaths between birth and fifth Under-5 deaths Under-5 mortality rate
birth day
4.2.1 Infant Mortality

The best-known and most widely available measure of mortality in early life is the infant mortality
rate (IMR). Infant mortality has a great impact on the age distribution of the population.
As we can see in Table 4.4 above, infants are defined as those who are yet to celebrate their first birth
day. All those who are under age 1, are infants and their ages are recorded as 0. Infant mortality rate is
calculated from the deaths of those who died before reaching age 1. The overall infant mortality rate
is estimated to be 24.0 per 1000 live births in the SVRS area in 2017 (see Table 4.5) as opposed to a
rate of 28 in 2016. The urban and rural rates are 22 and 25 respectively in 2017. The overall infant
mortality rate as reported in ICDDR‘B surveillance area in 2013 was 24.7 per 1000 live births. The
BDHS 2014 however reported a much higher rate (38 per 1000 live births). Females are at a lower
risk of dying in infancy having a rate of 23 as against 25 as reported for male infants.
The rate in 2017 shows substantial variations by administrative divisions, the highest being recorded
in Barishal (30.0) followed by Rajshahi (28.0). This is in sharp contrast with the results of 2016 when
Barishal division experienced the lowest (25.0) infant mortality. Comparison of the overall infant
mortality rates for the current year with the previous year‘s one, it is seen that the Hindus still run the
risk of higher infant mortality rate (25.0) than their Muslim counterparts (23.0). The overall male-
female difference in the IMR is 2.0 per 1000 live births: 25.0 among the males and 23.0 among those
who are females. Except that for Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions, the rates for males in all other
divisions exceed the rates for females by substantial margin.
Among the Hindus, sex has important bearing on the infant mortality rate, where male infants are
significantly more susceptible to death (32.0) during infancy than their female counterparts (18.0).
This result is in sharp contrast with the previous year‘s result when the female infants were highly
susceptible to death (35.0) than the male infants (27.0). Our findings further reveal that the Muslim
male and female infants are equally likely to die in infancy.

Table 4.5: Infant mortality rates per 1000 live births by sex and background
characteristics, SVRS 2017
Background Sex
Characteristics Male Female Both sexes
Residence:
Rural 27 23 25
Urban 22 23 22
Division:
Barishal 34 26 30
Chattogram 22 15 18
Dhaka 24 22 23
Khulna 23 19 21
Rajshahi 21 35 28
Rangpur 26 28 27
Sylhet 27 22 25
Religion:
Muslim 23 23 23
Hindu 32 18 25
Total 25 23 24
4.2.3 Neo-natal Mortality Rate
The Neo-natal mortality rate (NMR) is defined as the number of infants less than one month of age
during a year per 1000 live births in the same year. Levels of NMR for the year 2017 by background
characteristics have been presented in Table 4.6. The overall NMR is estimated to be 17.0 deaths per
1000 live births. Surprisingly, the data failed to detect any variation from the overall in infant
mortality rate (17.0) by sex, religion and region of residence (urban-rural).
The Neo-natal mortality rate varies from as low as 11.0 deaths per 1000 live births in Chattogram
division to as high as 23.0 deaths per 1000 live births in Rajshahi division.
Although the overall rate for males is in close agreement with the rate for females, the rates for males
and females by divisions vary substantially in some cases. Among the seven divisions, males in
Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur were seen to have lower IMR. No discernable difference was noted
between the male neonates and female neonates among the Muslims.
Table 4.6: Neo-natal mortality rates (NMR) per 1000 live births by background
Background Sex of the neonates
Residence:
Rural 18 16 17
Urban 17 18 17
Division:
Barishal 26 18 22
Chattogram 13 8 11
Dhaka 19 16 18
Khulna 13 15 14
Rajshahi 17 29 23

Rangpur 16 23 19
Sylhet 21 15 18
Religion:
Muslim 17 17 17
Hindu 21 13 17
Total 17 17 17
The Neo-natal mortality rate in BDHS 2014 was reported to be 28, while this rate as observed in
HDSS (ICDDR‘B) in 2013 was 19.1.
4.2.4 Post-Neo-natal Mortality Rate
Post Neo-natal mortality rate (PNMR) is also a mortality index of infants but limited to children of
age 1 month to 11 months old. The rates obtained from the SVRS 2017 data have been presented in
Table 4.7 by a few selected background characteristics of the population under study.
The overall post neo-natal mortality rate for 2017 was estimated to be 7.0 deaths per 1000 live births
as against 9 in 2016. The comparable rate as obtained in 2014 BDHS is 10. The rates by sex have also
been compared in the same table by urban-rural residence, geographic divisions and religion. As can
be noted, the post neo-natal mortality rates for male and female births are 7 and 6 respectively. The
corresponding rates in 2016 were 9.0 and 8.0 respectively. The highest rate (8.0) was reported in
Barishal and Chattogram divisions, the lowest (5.0 in each) in Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions. Notable
difference does also exist between urban (5.0) and rural areas (8.0). Religious differences are
marginal: Muslim 7 and Hindu 8. No sex differentials by divisions in the rate are noted except that for
Khulna and Rangpur divisions, where the risk is more pronounced among the male neonates in these
two divisions. In contrast, female neonates are at a higher risk in Rajshahi division compared to the
males (7 versus 4).
Table 4.7: Post Neo-natal mortality rates per 1000 live births by background
Residence:
Rural 9 7 8
Urban 5 5 5
Division:
Barishal 8 8 8
Chattogram 9 7 8
Dhaka 5 6 5
Khulna 10 4 7
Rajshahi 4 7 5
Rangpur 10 5 7
Sylhet 7 7 7
Religion:
Muslim 7 6 7
Hindu 11 5 8
Total 7 6 7

4.2.5 Child Mortality Rate
Child mortality rate (ChMR) is defined as the probability of dying of the children between their first
and fifth birth day per 1000 children surviving to their fifth birth day. The computed rates for the
SVRS area are shown in Table 4.8 by residence, division and religion according to the sex of the
children. The overall child mortality rate is 1.8. The rates shown in the table under reference confirm
that male children aged 1–4 are more likely (2.1) to experience death than their female counterparts
(1.6) in 2017. Comparison shows that these rates remained unchanged over the last one year. Children
in the rural area are the worst sufferers with a mortality rate of 2.4 as against 1.1 prevalent among the
children in the urban area. In both the areas males encounter greater risk than their female
counterparts in experiencing mortality in their childhood. So far as the regional variations are
concerned, the child death varies from 1.0 death per 1000 children in Khulna division to 4 deaths per
1000 children in Barishal division. In Barishal division, the male children are more vulnerable (5) to
death than their male counterparts (3). The data demonstrate no religious differences in the rate.
Table 4.8: Child death rates (1-4 years) by background characteristics, SVRS 2017
Background Sex
Residence:
Rural 2.6 2.1 2.4
Urban 1.3 0.9 1.1
Division:
Barishal 5 3 4
Chattogram 2 2 2
Dhaka 1 2 2
Khulna 1 1 1
Rajshahi 2 1 2
Rangpur 2 1 2
Sylhet 3 1 2
Religion:
Muslim 2 2 2
Hindu 1 2 1
Total 2.1 1.6 1.8
4.2.6 Under-5 Mortality Rate
Under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) is the probability of dying of children between birth and the fifth birth
day of children expressed per 1000 live births in a given year. Table 4.9 presents these rates for both
sexes of the children by some selected background characteristics of the population under study.
Based on the registered deaths of 2017 round of SVRS, overall under-five mortality rate was
computed to be 31 deaths per 1000 live births. The male children experienced a higher under-5
mortality rate (32) compared to their female counterpart (29).
Khulna Division was reported to have the lowest (23) under-five mortality, while Barishal division the
highest (44). Male children in Barishal division are at a greater risk than the children of other
divisions to experience under-5 mortality. The rates in other divisions vary by a narrow margin with
respect to sex. The survey failed to record any difference in the under-5 mortality rate by religion. The
mortality rate in rural area exceeds the rate for the urban area by a margin of 6 deaths (33 versus 27).

It is worth to mention that the overall under 5 mortality as reported in 2014 BDHS is 46, a much
higher rate than the 2017 SVRS.
Table 4.9: Under- 5 mortality rate per 1000 live births by background characteristics,
SVRS 2017
Background Sex of the children
Residence:
Rural 36 31 33
Urban 27 27 27
Division:
Barishal 51 36 44
Chattogram 30 22 26
Dhaka 30 30 30
Khulna 24 21 23
Rajshahi 28 40 34
Rangpur 33 32 32
Sylhet 37 28 33
Religion:
Muslim 31 29 30
Hindu 36 24 30
Total 32 29 31
4.3 Maternal Mortality

A maternal death is a death that occurs to a woman due to complications during pregnancy, child birth
and the peurperium (period after delivery). The ―Tenth Revision of the International Classification of
Diseases‖ defines a maternal death as any ―death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of
termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause
related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental
causes‖ (WHO, 2004).While not strictly a measure of risk, the maternal mortality ratio indicates the
‗price‘ (in terms of mother‘s life) that a human population pays for each infant brought into the world.
Maternal mortality can be measured using a number of indicators. The most commonly used indicator
is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), which is calculated as the ratio of maternal deaths in a
specified period to the number of live births during the same period:
The maternal mortality ratio is the most widely used and known indicator of maternal death. This
indicator relates maternal deaths to a measure of risky events, namely births; ideally, the indicator
should relate maternal deaths to the number of pregnancies, since pregnancies are the likely events,
but good counts of pregnancies are rarely available
The maternal mortality ratio obtained from the reported maternal deaths and numbers of live births are
presented in Table 4.10 by maternal age, urban-rural residence and for the administrative divisions of
the country. The overall maternal mortality ratio was estimated to be 1.72 maternal deaths per 1000
live births. A close view of the rates by maternal age depicts that maternal death and age are highly
positively correlated: the reported ratio sharply rises as maternal age advances. The risk is
significantly higher for older mothers. The ratio is higher (1.82) in rural area than in urban area (1.57).
The lowest maternal mortality ratio was observed in Dhaka division (1.0) while the highest (3.48) in

Barishal division. The comparable ratio as obtained in 2010 Maternal Mortality and Health Care
Survey was 1.97 per 1000 live births.
Table 4.10: Age-specific maternal mortality ratio by background characteristics, SVRS
2017
Background Age-specific maternal mortality ratio
characteristics
Maternal age
15–19 1.87
20–24 0.88
25–29 0.64
30–34 3.21
35–39 4.14
40–44 15.38
45–49 20.83
Residence:
Rural 1.82
Urban 1.57
Division:
Barishal 3.48
Chattogram 1.34
Dhaka 1.00
Khulna 1.51
Rajshahi 1.68
Rangpur 2.04
Sylhet 2.09
Total 1.72
4.4 The Life Table
The life table is a life history of a hypothetical group of people which originates from some standard
number of births and diminishes as age advances according to a predetermined schedule of mortality.
It is a very useful device for studying the levels and trends in mortality and projecting population,
labor force and school age population at some future dates. Insurance companies make extensive use
of lie table in the determination of their insurance premium. The government may also find a life table
very useful in determining age at retirement for the employees. There are usually two types of life
table: complete and abridged. The complete life table is presented in single years while the abridged
life table is presented in five-year age groups. The SVRS data on the deaths by age groups of the
population permit us to construct such life tables for males and females separately. It is also possible
to construct life table for both. Tables 4.11, 4.12 and 4.13 are such three life tables for males, females
and both sexes respectively.
The definitions and interpretations of the various columns of a life table are beyond the scope of this
report. The only column that we are frequently concerned with is the expectation of life denoted by ex.
These values represent the average longevities of individuals beyond a specified age (say x) and thus
reflect the general level of mortality in a population. The most useful indicator of a life table is its e0
value, which measures the average life expectancy of a population (also called expectation of life at
birth) and hence a useful index of the level of mortality. Based on the life table values, constructed
from the death statistics as obtained in 2017 SVRS, we find that females, on the average, have higher

longevity (73.5 years) than their male counterparts (70.6 years). These expectancies are in modest
increase annually over the last five years by an amount of a little more than 0.3 years on the average.
This difference has clearly been reflected in their life expectancies at all other ages (see Figure 4.3).
The number of survivors by exact age denoted by lx also speaks in favor of the higher survival status
of the females compared to their male counterparts. The lx values are shown in Figure 4.4. The overall
expectation of life at birth for males and females as obtained in ICDDR‘B in 2013 are respectively
70.0 years and 74 years as against 70.6 years and 73.5 years in SVRS area in 2017.
Table 4.11: Abridged life table for males, SVRS 2017
Age nqx lx nLx Tx ex
0-1 0.02987 100000 97396 7055269 70.6
1-5 0.00828 97013 386094 6957873 71.7
5-10 0.00315 96210 480292 6571779 68.3
10-15 0.00290 95907 478842 6091486 63.5
15-20 0.00827 95629 476235 5612645 58.7
20-25 0.00434 94839 473128 5136410 54.2
25-30 0.00539 94427 470898 4663282 49.4
30-35 0.00598 93919 468241 4192384 44.7
35-40 0.00852 93357 464918 3724143 39.9
40-45 0.01263 92562 460106 3259225 35.2
45-50 0.02129 91393 452599 2799119 30.6
50-55 0.04442 89447 438031 2346520 26.2
55-60 0.05527 85474 416232 1908489 22.3
60-65 0.09596 80750 385337 1492257 18.5
65-70 0.11873 73001 344503 1106921 15.2
70-75 0.22078 64333 287456 762418 11.9
75-80 0.27607 50130 216377 474962 9.5
80+ ... 36290 258585 258585 7.1
Table 4.12: Abridged life table for females, SVRS 2017

0-1 0.02735 100000 97627 7354726 73.5
1-5 0.00633 97265 387509 7257099 74.6
5-10 0.00275 96649 482583 6869590 71.1
10-15 0.00270 96384 481270 6387007 66.3
15-20 0.00554 96124 479324 5905737 61.4
20-25 0.00369 95592 477047 5426414 56.8
25-30 0.00369 95239 475350 4949367 52.0
30-35 0.00598 94887 473104 4474016 47.1
35-40 0.00782 94319 469857 4000912 42.4
40-45 0.01193 93582 465343 3531055 37.7
45-50 0.02099 92465 457838 3065712 33.1
50-55 0.03050 90524 445969 2607874 28.8
55-60 0.03439 87763 431727 2161905 24.6
60-65 0.06639 84745 410682 1730178 20.4
65-70 0.09165 79119 378644 1319496 16.7
70-75 0.16617 71868 330437 940852 13.1
75-80 0.18381 59926 273389 610415 10.2
80+ ... 48911 337026 337026 6.9

Table 4.13: Abridged life table for both sexes combined, SVRS 2017
0-1 0.02864 100000 97525 7198858 72.0
1-5 0.00729 97136 386757 7101333 73.1
5-10 0.00295 96428 481430 6714575 69.6
10-15 0.00280 96144 480047 6233146 64.8
15-20 0.00703 95875 477739 5753098 60.0
20-25 0.00399 95201 475020 5275359 55.4
25-30 0.00444 94821 473089 4800339 50.6
30-35 0.00598 94400 470660 4327250 45.8
35-40 0.00817 93836 467374 3856589 41.1
40-45 0.01228 93069 462710 3389215 36.4
45-50 0.02114 91926 455210 2926505 31.8
50-55 0.03738 89982 441990 2471295 27.5
55-60 0.04517 86619 423895 2029305 23.4
60-65 0.08192 82706 397591 1605410 19.4
65-70 0.10540 75931 360832 1207818 16.0
70-75 0.19590 67928 307602 846986 12.5
75-80 0.23567 54621 241737 539384 9.9
80+ ... 41749 297647 297647 7.1
Figure 4.3: Expectation of life by age and sex, SVRS 2017

Figure 4.4: Life table survivors by age and sex, SVRS 2017
4.5 Causes of Death

The survey lists 15 major causes of death. The overall death rate from all theses causes was 5.07,
which is essentially the crude death rate. Partitioning this rate by the causes of death shows that the
old age claims the most of the total deaths accounting for 0.91 per thousand. This is followed by death
due to heart attack (0.82), and cancer claiming about 5 persons per 10000 populations. Unidentified
and other minor diseases also claim more than 11 deaths per 10, 000 populations. Table 4.14 shows
the results of this investigation.
Table 4.14: Deaths rates per 1000 population from top 15 causes by residence, SVRS 2017
Causes of death Rural Urban Total
Old age 1.07 0.70 0.91
Heart attack 0.74 0.92 0.82
Cancer 0.57 0.39 0.49
Respiratory Disease 0.33 0.22 0.28
Heart disease 0.20 0.26 0.23
Asthma 0.24 0.09 0.17
Pneumonia 0.20 0.12 0.17
High Blood Pressure 0.18 0.15 0.16
Other accident 0.14 0.13 0.13
Kidney problem 0.13 0.11 0.12
Other Fevers 0.15 0.06 0.11
Brain stroke 0.09 0.11 0.10
Diabetes 0.08 0.10 0.09
Drowning 0.13 0.03 0.08
Jaundice 0.08 0.06 0.07
Others Diseases 1.40 0.80 1.13
Total 5.72 4.25 5.07
N 4008 2347 6355

4.5.1 Major Causes of Death
Table 4.15 presents the percentage distribution of deaths by 15 major causes of deaths. Of all reported
deaths in the survey, about 18 percent were due to old ages and 16.2 percent due to heart attack.
Cancer alone claims about 10 percent of all reported deaths. Deaths related to respiratory and heart
related diseases constitute 10 percent of all deaths. Stroke claims relatively more people in the urban
area (21.6%) as compared to the rural area (13.0%). The levels and patterns of deaths due to various
causes appear to be in conformity with the previous year‘s results.
Table 4.15: Percentage of causes of death from top15 causes by residence, SVRS 2017
Old age 18.7 16.4 17.9
Heart attack 13.0 21.6 16.2
Cancer 9.9 9.3 9.7
Heart disease 3.6 6.1 4.5
Asthma 4.2 2.1 3.4
Pneumonia 3.5 2.9 3.3
Other Fevers 2.7 1.5 2.2
Diabetes 1.5 2.3 1.8
Drowning 2.2 0.6 1.6
Jaundice 1.3 1.4 1.3
Other diseases 24.5 18.7 22.3
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
4.5.2 Causes of Deaths among Infants

Table 4.16 presents the percentage distribution of the infant deaths due to 10 major causes by urban-
rural residence. The table shows that infants are more vulnerable to pneumonia, which claims more
than 28 percent of the total infant deaths. Death resulting from malnutrition ranks next to pneumonia
claiming about 8 percent of the total deaths followed by deaths due to respiratory trouble (6. 1%).
Table 4.16: Percentage distribution of infant deaths due to 10 top causes by residence,
SVRS 2017
Pneumonia 29.2 26.0 28.1
Malnutrition 7.0 9.0 7.7
Other Fever 5.6 2.5 4.5
Tetanus 5.1 1.0 3.6
Complex Diarrhea 3.4 1.5 2.7
Diphtheria 0.3 6.0 2.3
Measles 2.2 2.0 2.2
Meningitis 2.0 2.5 2.2
Others 36.0 40.0 37.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0

4.5.3 Causes of Deaths among Under–5 Children
Keeping consistency with the causes of death among the infants, the highest under-five mortality rate
is attributable to pneumonia claiming more than one-fourth of all deaths. Other prominent causes are
Drowning (7.8%) and malnutrition (7.0 %). As expected, drowning is highly prevalent in rural area
claiming about 11 percent of all deaths in the same area. This is only to the extent of 2.1 in urban
setting. Fever and respiratory illness also are two major causes of death among the under-5 children.
Unidentified causes account for more than one third of the total deaths (37.8%).
Table 4.17: Percentage distribution of under-5 mortality by causes and residence, SVRS
2017
Pneumonia 25.6 25.1 25.5
Drowning 10.7 2.1 7.8
Malnutrition 6.1 8.8 7.0
Tetanus 3.8 0.8 2.8
Complex Diarrhea 2.9 1.3 2.4
Measles 1.9 2.5 2.1
Influenza 1.5 2.9 2.0
Other diseases 34.2 44.8 37.8
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
4.5.4 Causes of Deaths at Old Ages

Table 4.18 shows the percentage distribution of the causes of deaths of old aged people by residence.
Old age alone is responsible for about 30 percent of the total deaths of the older people, followed by
heart attack (17.5%). Other causes of maternal deaths, among others are cancer (7.4%), respiratory
(6.6%), heart (4.6%) and asthma (4.3%). At old ages, as expected, unidentified diseases are
responsible for over 16 percent of the total deaths.
Table 4.18: Major 15 causes of deaths of elderly persons (60 years and over) by residence,
SVRS 2017
Old age 30.8 28.2 29.9
Heart Stroke 14.3 23.2 17.5
Cancer 7.1 8.0 7.4
Heart diseases 3.7 6.3 4.6
Asthma 5.1 3.0 4.3
Diabetes 1.6 2.7 2.0
Mental Diseases 0.9 0.3 0.7
Arthritis 0.7 0.4 0.6
Paralysis 0.7 0.3 0.6
Others Diseases 18.1 11.9 15.9
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
4.5.5 Causes of Maternal Deaths

The most conspicuous reason for maternal mortality is the complex pregnancy followed by complex
delivery claiming half of the maternal deaths. Complex abortion (20%), bleeding at pregnancy (12.5)
and bleeding after delivery account for about 58% of all maternal deaths. Table 4.19 shows a list of
all such reasons related to maternal deaths.
Table 4.19: Distribution of causes of maternal mortality, SVRS 2017

Causes of death Total
Complex Pregnancy 17.5
Complex delivery 25.0
Bleeding after delivery (PPH) 25.0
Complex Abortion 20.0
Bleeding at Pregnancy 12.5
period(APH)
Total 100.0
The decomposition of the maternal mortality ratio by major causes of death is presented in Table 4.20.
Table4.20: Maternal mortality ratio by causes per 1000 live births, SVRS 2017
Causes of death Total
Complex pregnancy 0.30
Complex delivery 0.43
Bleeding after delivery (PPH) 0.43
Complex Abortion 0.35
Bleeding at Pregnancy 0.22
period(APH)
Total 1.72
4.6 Trends in Mortality: 1982-2017
4.6.1 Crude Death Rate

The crude death rates estimated by BBS through their SVRS program are presented in Table 4.21
since 1982. The rate was in the neighborhood of 12 per thousand population during 1982–95, which
thereafter declined to 10 per thousand in 1993. However, the onset of a fast decline in the level of
crude death rate was observed in 1994 which recorded a further decline to 5.1 in 2002. A temporary
rise in the CDR was noted after this period. The current CDR is estimated to be in the neighborhood
of 5 per thousand population. Table 4.21 below shows the level of crude death rate obtained from

different sources. The rates from 2002 are the ones derived from the registered deaths in the SVRS
area of BBS.
Table 4.21: Trends in crude death rates for Bangladesh, SVRS 1982-2017
Period Crude death rate Period Crude death rate
1982 12.2 1999 5.1
1983 12.3 2000 4.9
1984 12.3 2001 4.8
1985 12.0 2002 5.1
1986 12.1 2003 5.9
1987 11.5 2004 5.8
1988 11.3 2005 5.8
1989 11.3 2006 5.6
1990 11.4 2007 6.2
1991 11.2 2008 6.0
1992 11.0 2009 5.8
1993 10.0 2010 5.6
1994 9.3 2011 5.5
1995 8.7 2012 5.3
1996 8.2 2013 5.3
1997 5.5 2014 5.2
1998 5.1 2015 5.1
1998 5.1 2016 5.1
1999 5.1 2017 5.1
Sources: (1) For the period 1881–1980: CPD–UNFPA Paper Series,
(2) For 1981–2011, BBS (2013, 2014), (3) *SVRS–2013
Key Indicators (BBS, 2015)
4.6.2 Childhood Mortality

As the data in Table 4.22 display, Neo-natal mortality, under-five mortality and childhood mortality
rates all have declined consistently from 2001 to 2017. Even more impressive is the decline in under-
five mortality over the same period.
Table 4.22: Trends in childhood mortality rates, SVRS 2001-2017
Year Infant mortality Neonatal Post-neonatal Under-five Child mortality
mortality mortality mortality
2001 56 39 17 82 4.1
2002 53 36 17 76 4.6
2003 53 36 17 78 4.6
2004 52 36 17 74 4.5
2005 50 33 16 68 4.1
2006 45 31 14 62 3.9
2007 43 29 13 60 3.6
2008 41 31 10 54 3.1
2009 39 28 11 50 2.7
2010 36 26 10 47 2.6
2011 35 23 11 44 2.4
2012 33 22 12 42 2.3

Year Infant mortality Neonatal Post-neonatal Under-five Child mortality
mortality mortality mortality
2013 32 22 11 41 2.2
2014 30 21 09 38 2.0
2015 29 20 09 36 2.0
2016 28 19 09 35 1.8
2017 24 17 07 31 1.8
Sources: BBS (2014),. SVRS–2013 Key Indicators (BBS, 2015), na: Not available
4.6.3 Maternal Mortality Ratio
The trends in MMR during the period 1986–2017 are shown in the accompanying table (Table 4.23).
As the estimates presented in the table dictate, the MMR declined from 6.48 per 1000 live births in
1986 to 3.15 in 2001, a more than 51 per cent decline in 15 years. The vital registration system
initiated in 2002 records a somewhat higher rate (3.93) compared to the previous years. This ratio
falls consistently to 1.72 in 2017. Figure 4.4 shows the trends in maternal mortality ratios over the
period 1986–2014
Table 4.23: Trends in maternal mortality ratio per 1000 live births, SVRS 1986–2017
Year MMR Year MMR
1986 6.48 2002 3.91
1987 5.96 2003 3.76
1988 5.72 2004 3.65
1989 5.08 2005 3.48
1990 4.78 2006 3.37
1991 4.72 2007 3.51
1992 4.68 2008 3.48
1993 4.52 2009 2.59
1984 4.49 2010 2.16
1995 4.47 2.011 2.09
1996 4.44 2012 2.03
1997 3.50 2013 1.97
1999 3.20 2014 1.93
2000 3.18 2015 1.81
2001 3.15 2016 1.78
2002 3.91 2017 1.72
Source: BBS (2013, 2014), *SVRS–2013 Key Indicators (BBS, 2017)

Figure 4.5: Maternal mortality ratio, SVRS 2002-2017
4.6.4 Expectation of Life at Birth

Expectation of life at birth is a summary measure of mortality that portrays the average longevity of
life of an individual. The vital registration system in Bangladesh maintained and monitored by the
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics provides the estimates of life expectancy over the last 30 years. These
estimates are shown in Table 4.24. The trends in the expectation of life at birth are displayed in figure
4.6 for the period 1981–2017. Note that the expectations of life at birth for males and females were
55.3 and 54.5 in 1981. These increased to 70.6 and 73.5 years in 2017 over a period of 36 years,
implying an average annual increase 0.43 years for males and 0.53 years for females.
Table 4.24: Trends in expectation of life at birth by sex, SVRS 1981–2017
Year Male Female Year Male Female
1981 55.3 54.5 2000 63.7 63.5
1982 54.5 54.8 2001 64.0 64.5
1983 54.2 53.6 2002 64.5 65.4
1984 54.9 54.7 2003 64.3 65.4
1985 55.7 54.6 2004 64.4 65.7
1986 55.2 55.3 2005 64.4 65.8
1987 56.9 56.0 2006 65.4 67.8
1988 56.5 55.6 2007 65.5 67.9
1989 56.0 55.6 2008 65.6 68.0
1990 56.6 55.6 2009 66.1 68.7
1991 56.5 55.7 2010 66.6 68.8
1992 56.8 55.9 2011 67.9 70.3
1993 58.2 57.7 2012 68.2 70.7
1994 58.2 57.9 2013 68.8 71.2
1995 58.4 58.1 2014 69.1 71.6
1996 59.1 58.6 2015 69.4 72.0
1997 60.3 59.7 2016 70.3 72.9
1998 61.7 61.2 2017 70.6 73.5
1999 63.0 62.4
Source: BBS (2014),*SVRS–2013 Key Indicators (BBS, 2015)

Figure 4.6: Trends in expectation of life at birth by sex, SVRS 2002–2017

Map 4.1: Crude death rate (CDR) by Zila, SVRS 2017

Map 4.2: Infant mortality rate (IMR) by Zila, SVRS 2017

Map 4.3: Under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) by Zila, SVRS 2017

CHAPTER V
Marriage and Marriage Dissolution
5.1 Introduction
Marriage, separation, divorce and widowhood are demographic events that influence the course of
population growth. These events together constitute what is called nuptiality. They influence the
fertility and migration directly and mortality indirectly. Marriage, from the demographic point of
view, should be looked upon as a continuous force of attrition, exerting its effect on the population of
persons who are not currently married. As a result of its operation, the population of non-married
persons is progressively reduced. Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society
as a whole.
Bangladesh has adopted the UN definition of marriage. It is the legal union of two persons of opposite
sex. Registration of marriage in Bangladesh is obligatory for Muslims and Christians. In the case of
other religions, it is optional and in that event, contractual marriage is performed in traditional way.
Marriages are mostly arranged either by the parents or other near relatives. At the time of marriage,
the consent of both bride and groom is sought in presence of witnesses. There is a provision for
registration of marriage on a form known as Nikanamah. An amount known as Mohar (bride price) is
required to be committed by the husband to the bride with certain amount paid in cash or kind and the
rest to be paid on demand. The bride price is determined in accordance with the social and economic
position of both parties. Divorce is permitted among the Muslims and the Christians under certain
conditions. Marriage of widows is permissible among all religions. Hindu marriage is a pre-ordained
union and there is little scope for dissolution by divorce.
Bangladesh society is predominantly monogamous with marginal polygamy. Marriage in Bangladesh
is virtually universal for both males and females and is considered an important process of social
institution. Religious practices attach great importance to the family bonding established through
marriage ties. The socio-cultural milieu of Bangladesh has long favored early and universal marriage.
Early marriage is gradually changing as an impact of enactment of laws, uplifting of female
education, and participation of women in gainful employment and the technological innovation and
changes in the society. It is a fact that an upward shift in age at marriage would help curtailing the
most fecund period, reduction in early child bearing, lower fertility level and thus reduce the rate of
growth of population. Like other countries, Bangladesh is also trying to slow down population growth
through raising the age at marriage of its population.
This chapter deals with the frequency of marriages, with the characteristics of persons and their union
through marriage and the dissolution of such marriages. Data on some important indicators of
marriage viz. crude marriage rate, general marriage rate, age specific marriage rate, mean age at
marriage by sex and some marital dissolution indicators like crude divorce rate, general divorce rate,
age specific divorce and separation rate by sex have been incorporated in this chapter.
5.2 Crude Marriage Rate
Crude Marriage Rate (CMR) is defined as the number of marriages solemnized per 1000 population.
It measures the frequency of marriages in the total population. The CMR and its differentials, as
obtained in MSVSB 2017 are shown in Table 5.1 by some background characteristics of the
population surveyed.

Table 5.1: Crude and general marriage rates per 1000 population by background
Background General marriage rate
Crude marriage rate
Characteristics Both sexes Male Female
Residence:
Rural 18.1 26.1 52.2 52.3
Urban 10.2 14.1 28.2 28.1
Division:
Barishal 15.3 21.5 42.7 43.5
Chattogram 10.9 16.1 33.0 31.5
Dhaka 12.3 17.6 35.2 35.2
Khulna 16.3 22.0 43.8 44.3
Rajshahi 18.8 25.5 50.4 51.8
Rangpur 20.1 28.0 55.1 56.9
Sylhet 11.6 17.1 34.7 33.5
Religion:
Muslim 14.7 20.9 41.8 41.9
Hindu 14.0 18.6 37.8 36.8
Others 16.5 23.1 46.9 45.4
Education:
No education 3.1 5.3 12.1 9.5
Primary 10.8 18.4 35.8 37.8
Secondary 22.5 27.9 59.5 52.7
Secondary+ 29.3 29.7 52.5 68.5
Total 14.6 20.7 41.4 41.3
The overall CMR is 14.6 per 1000 population with a significantly higher rate (18.1) in rural area than
in the urban area (10.2). A slight increase in crude rate is noted over the last two years: from 13 in
2015 to 14.3 in 2016 and further to 14.6 in 2017. The rate increased from 14.9 in 2015 to 17.7 in 2016
in rural area, while the rate in urban area remained static remaining in the neighborhood of 10 over
this period. The scenario in 2017 remains almost the same as was observed in the last two years. At
the divisional level the CMR was reported to be the highest in Rangpur division (20.1), followed by
Rajshahi division with a rate of 18.8 per thousand population. The rate is the lowest in Chattogram
division (10.9). These rakings of the divisions were completely different in 2016: Rajshahi division
the highest (15.8), while Dhaka division the lowest (13.0). The CMR for the Muslims marginally
exceeds rate reported for Hindus by 0.7 percentage points: 14.7 versus 14.0. The followers of other
religions were reported to have a much higher CMR: 16.5. A diagrammatic view of the crude
marriage rates by geographic regions may be seen in Figure 5.1.

Figure 5.1: Crude marriage rates by geographic divisions, SVRS 2017
5.3 General Marriage Rate

General marriage rate (GMR) is the refinement of CMR consisting of restricting the population to
persons of marriageable age (15+ years). Thus, general marriage rate is the ratio of number of
marriages in a year to the population of age 15+ years expressed in thousand.
The general marriage rate is often calculated separately for males and females. The rates will differ
from each other in accordance with the level of the sex ratio in the marriageable ages. If it is
calculated for males (for example), then numerator becomes the number of males marrying in a given
year and the denominator becomes the total mid-year population of males aged 15 years and over.
If there is no multiple marriage in a society, the number of marriages among the males will be equal
to the number of marriages among the females and in absence of any sex imbalance, GMR computed
for both sexes will be half as likely as either the rate for male or for female. The general marriage rate
computed in this fashion has been displayed in Table 5.1 for males and females separately and for
both sexes together.
It is evident from Table 5.1 that the overall GMR in 2017 is 20.7 as against 20.6 per 1000 population
in 2016. The rate in the rural area is higher (26.1) than in the urban area (14.1) by about 83 percent
without showing any change over the last one year. The rates at the divisional level vary from as low
as 16.1 in Chattogram division to as high as 28.0 in Rangpur division. In 2016, the highest and the
lowest rates were prevalent in Dhaka (22.3) and Sylhet divisions (18.9) respectively.
The sex differentials in GMR are only but marginal: 41.4 versus 41.3, showing virtually no change in
the rate from its previous year‘s rate. The religious variations in GMR have been narrowed down
since its 2016 round of survey. Muslims now experience somewhat higher GMR (20.9) than their
Hindu counterparts (18.6), although followers of other religions have relatively a higher rate (23.1)
than the Muslims and Hindus. In line with the results reported in 2016 survey, education remains
highly positively correlated with general marriage rates with the lowest marriage rate for those who
are illiterate (5.3) and the highest amongst those who have secondary and above level of education
(29.7). This tends to indicate that a minimum level of education is required to have a positive impact
of education on the marriage rate. It is however important to note that the rates so far presented are all
unstandardized and hence may be affected by population compositions (e.g. religious, educational
etc.) of the population. Hence no firm conclusion can be drawn on the differences with respect to the
background characteristics of the population.

5.4 Age-Specific Marriage Rate
Because marriage is highly age-specific and demographers are primarily interested in age patterns of
marriage, it is commonplace to construct age-specific marriage rates. Age-specific marriage rate is
defined as the number of marriages to persons of a given age group per 1000 persons in the same age
group. There is an additional complication in computing the age-specific marriage rate, however,
since marriage involves two persons who may not be of the same age. In view of this, age-specific
marriage rates are defined in terms of persons marrying, rather than marriages. The resulting age–sex
specific marriage rates are displayed in Table 5.2 by urban –rural residence and sex. Figure 5.2
graphically displays the marriage rates for males and females. As we can note, for both males and
females, the graph succinctly displays the concentration of marriages in the neighborhood of 18 years
for females and 23 years for males. These rates are in close agreement with the legal age at marriage.
Logically, the mean age at marriage will be closed to these levels.
Table 5.2: Age-specific marriage rates per 1000 population by sex and residence, SVRS
2017
group Male Female Male Female Male Female
15-19 17.9 165.9 7.8 64.6 13.7 119.6
20-24 76.9 41.6 35.6 29.7 58.5 36.0
25-29 62.7 11.7 33.9 13.0 49.2 12.3
30-34 29.7 2.7 24.1 3.3 27.0 3.0
35+ 3.6 0.5 2.6 0.4 3.2 0.4
Total 23.6 28.6 13.2 15.0 18.9 22.4
TMR 954.0 1112.0 520.0 555.0 758.0 856.5
If marriage can be thought of (and in fact can be) like fertility, rather than mortality, then age-specific
marriage rates can be calculated which include all men/women, both married and unmarried, in the
denominator. The resulting rates will be total marriage rates (TMR). The last row of Table 5.2
presents the total marriage rates for rural, urban areas and for the total population by sex. When the
age specific rates are added and multiplied by 5, we arrive at the total marriage rates.
The implication of the computed TMRs for the urban population is that a male in the study area is
expected to experience close to one marriage (0.954) on the average if he experiences the current
marriage rate and no mortality during the marriageable ages, while a female does so with 1.1
marriages (1.112).

Figure 5.2: Age specific marriage rates by sex, SVRS 2017
5.5 Average Age at Marriage

Mean age at marriage (MAM) is one of the most important indicators of nuptiality. It has direct
impact on fertility and duration of marriage. The SVRS Marriage Schedule–5 allows us to compute
mean and median age at marriage including the age at first marriage for the current year for all
persons according to their previous marital status. The proportions single by current age were used to
calculate the Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM), an indirect measure of age at first marriage.
The levels of mean and median age at marriage and Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM) by sex
and some selected background characteristics are presented in Table 5.3.
5.5.1 Mean Age at First Marriage
The mean and median age at first marriage computed from the previous marital status data
specifically from those who were ‗single‘ prior to their marriage in the reference year are presented in
Table 5.3 by some selected background variables. The mean age at first marriage for males is
25.1years, while it is 18.5 years for the females resulting in a spousal age difference of 6.6 years. The
comparable mean ages as obtained in ICDDRB surveillance area for 2013 for males and females were
respectively 27.3 years and 19.3 years. Both urban males and females marry at a later age than their
rural counterparts, with a spousal age difference of 6.6 in the rural area and 6.5 in the urban area. The
median age at first marriage presented in the same table reflect the same scenario as observed in the
case of mean ages.
At the divisional level, Sylhet recorded the highest (27.0 years) mean age at marriage for males while
Rajshahi the lowest (24.1years). This is also true for the females: Sylhet, 20.8 years and Rajshahi,
17.8 years.
For both males and females, Muslims have the lowest mean age at marriage (24.7 years for males and
18.4 years for females) compared to the followers of other religions. The level of education appears to
have a favorable effect on raising the age at marriage for males but not for females. For example,
when the males are illiterate, they tend to marry at a very early age of 23.8 years. This age increases
consistently as the level of education rises reaching at 26.6 years when they have secondary and above
level of education. On the other hand, females mean ages at marriage appear to be somewhat erratic.
It decreases for the first three levels of education, which thereafter shows a rising trend.

5.5.2 Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM)
Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM) is defined as an estimate of the mean number of years lived
by a cohort of men or women before their first marriage takes place. This is an indirect method of
estimation of mean age at first marriage. SMAM was calculated from MSVSB 2017 data and
presented in Table 5.3 for males and females separately. The SMAM was 25.6 years for males and
20.4 years for the females, showing an spousal age difference of 5.2 years. This result shows that the
mean age at marriage has not been changed over the last two years.
It is important to note that the mean age at marriage does not deviate much from the mean and median
age at marriage. This is primarily because of the distribution of age at marriage is symmetrical about
these averages. The SMAM is an indirect measure of age at first marriage and hence it is likely to be
different from the mean and median ages. If direct data on age marriage are available, the
computation of SMAM is considered to be redundant.
Table 5.3: Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM), mean age at first marriage (MAM)
and median age at first marriage and by sex and background characteristics, SVRS 2017
Back ground Singulate mean age Mean age Median age
Characteristics at marriage at first marriage at first marriage
Male Female Male Female Male Female
Residence:
Rural 25.0 19.8 24.6 18.0 25 18
Urban 26.4 21.2 26.2 19.7 26 19
Division:
Barishal 26.4 20.4 25.7 18.7 26 18
Chattogram 26.1 20.6 25.7 18.6 26 18
Dhaka 25.2 19.7 25.0 18.0 25 18
Khulna 25.6 20.0 25.2 18.5 25 18
Rajshahi 24.4 19.1 24.1 17.8 24 18
Rangpur 24.7 19.9 24.2 18.3 24 18
Sylhet 27.7 22.2 27.0 20.8 27 20
Religion:
Muslim 25.0 19.5 24.7 18.4 25 18
Hindu 28.0 21.5 27.7 19.8 28 19
Others 26.7 23.1 26.6 20.7 26 19
Education:
No education 24.2 19.7 23.8 18.7 24 19
Primary
24.1 18.9 23.7 17.7 23 18
complete
Secondary 24.9 16.9 25 16
incomplete 25.2 19.1
Secondary+ 28.0 21.9 26.6 20.4 27 19
Total 25.6 20.4 25.1 18.5 25 18
5.5.3 Mean and Median Age at Marriage (MAM)

The mean and median ages for those who were single, and ever married (currently married, widowed
and divorced), and went on for the subsequent marriages in 2017 are also presented in Tables 5.4 and
5.5 by sex. Clearly, the age at marriage calculated from those where reported to be single (never
married) at the time of the survey, will be identical to the mean age at first marriage. Naturally this
mean will be always smaller than all other means presented in the tables under reference. Among the
males, as we see in Table 5.4, widowed (44.7 years) followed by the currently married persons have

the highest mean age (32.2 years) at marriage. Separated males have the lowest (30.3 years) mean age
at marriage. This is also partially true for females: highest (32.6 years) among those who were
widowed, followed by divorced (24 years) women.
Table 5.4: Percent distribution of the age at marriage by previous marital status,
SVRS 2017: Males
Age at marriage Single Married Widowed Divorced Separated Total
10-14 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
15-19 12.2 5.0 0.0 4.0 11.1 11.1
20-24 38.3 18.1 8.9 16.7 0.0 35.3
25-29 30.1 27.4 14.6 28.4 44.4 29.5
30-34 15.3 16.1 12.7 21.2 22.2 15.6
35-39 3.2 11.9 9.6 13.5 11.1 4.4
40-44 0.7 8.0 7.6 9.0 0.0 1.7
45+ 0.2 13.6 46.5 7.2 11.1 2.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Mean age 25.1* 32.2 44.7 31.4 30.3 26.2
Median age 24.0* 29.0 43.0 30.0 29.0 25.0
* Age at first marriage

Table 5.5: Percent distribution of the age at marriage by previous marital status,
SVRS 2017: Females
Age at marriage Single Married Widowed Divorced Separated Total
10-14 8.0 4.0 0.0 0.6 37.5 7.6
15-19 62.8 55.4 7.8 26.4 37.5 60.9
20-24 21.0 23.8 18.8 34.9 25.0 21.6
25-29 6.7 8.0 14.1 23.9 0.0 7.4
30-34 1.2 3.3 20.3 8.2 0.0 1.6
35-39 0.2 2.8 15.6 2.2 0.0 0.5
40-44 0.0 0.5 12.5 1.3 0.0 0.2
45+ 0.3
0.0 2.3 10.9 2.5 0.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Mean age 18.5* 20.6 32.6 24.0 16.5 18.9
Median age 18.0* 18.0 32.0 23.0 17.5 18.0
* Age at first marriage

5.6 Marriage Dissolution: Divorce and Separation
Data on divorce and separation were collected employing Schedule-6. The data collected using this
schedule include name and code of divorce/separated persons, sex, age, religion, level of education,
reason for divorce/separation, marital status, age at marriage and duration of marriage. The following
indicators were generated from the divorce/separation schedule (Schedule 6):
(1) Crude divorce rate;
(2) Crude separation rate;
(3) Divorce-marriage separation rate;
(4) Age-specific divorce rate;
(5) Age-specific separation rate;
(6) General divorce rate (GDR);

(7) General separation rate (GSR);
(8) Reasons for divorce and
(9) Reasons for separation.
5.6.1 Crude Divorce Rate and Crude Separation Rate
In all previous SVRS surveys, crude divorce rate has been calculated as the number of divorces per
1000 population. In the same way crude separation rate was calculated as the number of separations
per 1000 population. Crude divorce rates and separation rates as obtained from SVRS 2017 are shown
in Table 5.6. As can be seen from the table, one in every 1000 population, experienced divorce. The
rural people are about 71 percent more likely than their urban counterpart to end their marriage in
divorce. Barishal division experiences the highest rate of divorce (1.9 per thousand population)
followed by Rajshahi (1.8). The rate is the lowest in Chattogram and Sylhet divisions each with a rate
of 0.4 per thousand population.
In line with the other demographic measures, Muslims are more prone to end their marriage in divorce
with a rate of 1.1 per 1000 population. The corresponding rate among the Hindus is 0.3. It is largely
due to the fact that Hindu marriage is a pre-ordained union and there is little scope for dissolution by
divorce. Christians and others however have an intermediate rate of divorce (0.5) falling between the
Muslims and the Hindus. Educational level of the women by and large appears to have a positive
association with the crude divorce rate.
5.6.2 Divorce–Marriage Ratio
Another measure of divorce is the divorce to marriage ratio, which is the number of divorces to the
number of marriages in a given year (the ratio of the crude divorce rate to the crude marriage rate).
For example, if there are 500 divorces and 1,000 marriages in a given year in a given area, the ratio
would be one divorce for every two marriages, e.g. a ratio of 0.5 (50%). The ratios calculated in this
fashion are also presented in Table 5.6 by the background characteristics of the population. The
overall divorce to marriage ratio for the 2017 sample is 0.07, meaning that 7 per cent of the marriages
in the area ended in divorce. This ratio does not vary by urban-rural residence, while substantial
variations were noted among the administrative divisions, the risk being the highest {0.12) in Barishal
division followed by Rajshahi division (0.10)). The lowest rate (0.03) is recorded in Sylhet division.
The risk significantly varies by religious affiliation being highly prevalent among the Muslims (0.07)
followed by the Hindus (0.83). Education has a negative relationship with the risk factor in question:
0.13 among those who have no education and 0.04 among those who have secondary and above level
of education.
5.6.3 General Divorce Rate (GDR)
General divorce rate (GDR) has been calculated as the relative number of divorces of age 15+ per
1000 population of the same age. General Divorce Rate by sex and division are presented in Table
5.6. The overall GDR is 1.4 for both sexes, there being no sex differential (2.8 for each sex).
The general divorce rate (GDR) is much higher in rural area (1.7) compared to urban area (1.0)
without recording any variation by sex. The rate appears to have wide regional variations for both
males and females. An examination of the results presented in Table 5.6 reveal that Barishal division
experiences the highest GDR, 5.4 for males and 5.5 for females followed by Rajshahi division (4.8 for
males and 4.9 for females) while the lowest rate (1.3 males and 1.2 for females) was reported each in
Chattogram and Sylhet divisions.

Muslims have the highest GDR (3.1 for both sexes) than their Hindu counterparts (0.7 for both sexes).
Education of the women seems to have a very weak but positive association with the divorce rate.
Table 5.6: Crude divorce rate, divorce-marriage ratio and general divorce rate by
background characteristics, SVRS 2017
Background Crude divorce Crude marriage Divorce- General divorce rate
Characteristics rate rate marriage ratio Both sexes Male Female
Residence:
Rural 1.2 18.1 0.07 1.7 3.5 3.5
Urban 0.7 10.2 0.07 1.0 2.0 2.0
Division:
Barishal 1.9 15.3 0.12 2.7 5.4 5.5
Chattogram 0.4 10.9 0.04 0.6 1.3 1.2
Dhaka 0.7 12.3 0.06 1.0 1.9 1.9
Khulna 1.2 16.3 0.07 1.7 3.3 3.3
Rajshahi 1.8 18.8 0.10 2.4 4.8 4.9
Rangpur 1.0 20.1 0.05 1.5 2.9 3.0
Sylhet 0.4 11.6 0.03 0.6 1.3 1.2
Religion:
Muslim 1.1 14.7 0.07 1.5 3.1 3.1
Hindu 0.3 14.0 0.02 0.4 0.7 0.7
Others 0.5 16.5 0.03 0.6 1.3 1.3
Education:
No education 0.4 3.1 0.13 0.7 1.6 1.2
Primary 1.0 10.8 0.09 1.7 3.3 3.5
Secondary 1.5 22.5 0.07 1.8 3.9 3.5
Secondary+ 1.3 29.3 0.04 1.4 2.4 3.1
Total 1.0 14.6 0.07 1.4 2.8 2.8
5.6.4 Age-Specific Divorce Rate

Age-specific divorce rate for a specified age group has been calculated as the relative number of
divorces of defined age group per 1000 population of the age group. Age specific divorce rates as
obtained in 2017, are shown in Table 5.7. The results of this investigation reveal that the rate in
question does not follow any pattern with respect to the current age. It is particularly true for males in
the rural area without any discrimination between urban and rural areas. The prevalence of divorce
among the males is pronounced when they are in their twenties.
Table 5.7 Age-specific divorce rates by sex and residence, SVRS 2017
Rural Urban
Age group Male Female Both sexes Male Female Both sexes
15 – 19 0.6 7.0 3.4 0.2 0.9 0.7
20 - 24 3.3 5.5 4.5 0.9 1.6 1.4
25 - 29 1.9 3.4 2.7 1.5 1.2 1.3
30 - 34 2.0 1.2 1.6 1.4 0.5 0.8
35+ 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.2
Total 1.1 2.3 1.7 0.7 0.6 0.6
5.6.5 Crude Separation Rate

Crude separation rate may be defined as the number of separations per 1000 population. The rate so
calculated is presented in Table 5.8 by some selected background characteristics of the population. In
terms of the crude separation rate, the surveyed population is at least one-third as likely to experience
separation as those who run the risk of divorce. It may be noted that the urban and rural areas do not
differ at all in crude separation rates. The situation is the worst in Barishal and Sylhet divisions with
the highest separation rate of (0.5) followed by Rajshahi division (0.4).
5.6.6 General Separation Rate
The general separation rate (GSR) is the number of separations per 1000 persons exposed to the risk
of separation restricted generally to the mid-year population aged 15 and over with the same number
of separations in the numerator. GSR can be computed for males and females separately provided the
data are available. The overall general separation rate is estimated to be 0.5 with no sex differential in
the rate (0.9 in each case). The GSR is the highest in Sylhet division (0.8) followed by Rajshahi and
Barishal (0.6).
Table 5.8 Crude separation rates and general separation rates (aged 15+) by sex and
residence, SVRS 2017
Background Crude Crude marriage separation- General separation rate
Characteristics separation rate rate marriage ratio Both sexes Male Female
Residence:
Rural 0.3 18.1 0.02 0.5 0.9 0.9
Urban 0.3 10.2 0.03 0.4 0.9 0.9
Division:
Barishal 0.5 15.3 0.03 0.6 1.3 1.3
Chattogram 0.1 10.9 0.01 0.2 0.4 0.3
Dhaka 0.2 12.3 0.02 0.4 0.7 0.7
Khulna 0.3 16.3 0.02 0.4 0.8 0.9
Rajshahi 0.4 18.8 0.02 0.6 1.1 1.2
Rangpur 0.3 20.1 0.01 0.5 0.9 0.9
Sylhet 0.5 11.6 0.04 0.8 1.6 1.5
Religion:
Muslim 0.3 14.7 0.02 0.5 0.9 0.9
Hindu 0.3 14.0 0.02 0.4 0.9 0.9
Others 0.5 16.5 0.03 0.6 1.3 1.3
Education:
No education 0.3 3.1 0.10 0.5 1.2 0.9
Primary 0.3 10.8 0.03 0.5 0.9 1.0
Secondary 0.4 22.5 0.02 0.5 1.0 0.9
Above
0.4 29.3 0.01 0.4 0.7 0.9
secondary
Total 0.3 14.6 0.02 0.5 0.9 0.9
5.6.7 Age-Specific Separation Rate

Age specific separation rate has been calculated as the relative number of separation at a defined age
group per 1000 population of that age group. Age specific separation rates as obtained in 2017 are
shown in Table 5.9. The highest age-specific separation rates for both rural and urban females remain
concentrated in age group 20-24. The age pattern of separation rates follows a curvilinear pattern: it is
low at the younger ages, rises with age and finally drops as age increases.

Table 5.9: Age-specific separation rate by sex, SVRS 2017
Rural Urban
Age group Male Female Both sexes Male Female Both sexes
15 - 19 0.2 1.5 0.8 0.2 0.2 0.2
20 - 24 0.4 1.9 1.2 0.2 0.7 0.5
25 - 29 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.3 0.4 0.4
30 - 34 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5
35+ 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Total 0.2 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3
5.7 Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Separation: 2004-2017
The trends in some marriage and marriage related indicators are summarized in Table 5.10. The crude
marriage rate shows a substantial increase over the last 13 years, from 13.0 per thousand population in
2005 to 14.6 per thousand population in 2017, an increase of over 12.0 percent over the stated period.
The increase in general marriage rates for both males and females have been pronounced during 2005-
2017: from 19 in 2005 to 41.4 in 2017 for males. The corresponding rates for females are 21.5 & 41.3.
There has been essentially negligible increase in crude divorce rate and crude separation rate over the
period under investigation. The Singulate mean age at marriage for both males and females has
marked a negligible and irregular increase during this period. There is a tendency for the general
divorce rate to increase over time: from 0.7 in 2005 to 2.8 in 2017, although the pattern of increase is
somewhat erratic. Mean age at marriage (irrespective of marital status) has shown an increasing trend
over this period, from 25.3 years in 2005 to 26.2 years in 2017. Mean age at first marriage remains
static over the last five years or so.
Table 5.10: Trends in indicators of marriage, divorce and separation, SVRS 2005-2017
Background Year
Crude marriage 13.0 12.4 12.5 11.6 13.2 12.7 13.4 13.3 13.0 12.9 13.0 14.3 14.6
rate
General 20.5 19.6 19.2 17.4 19.6 18.4 19.7 19.3 19.1 19.0 18.8 20.6 20.7
marriage rate:
Male 19.0 18.3 18.2 16.1 18.1 17.4 18.1 38.1 38.1 38.1 37.9 41.3 41.4
Female 21.5 21.0 20.1 18.8 21.1 20.3 21.2 39.1 38.4 37.7 37.4 41.2 41.3
Crude divorce 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.6 .09 0.9 1.1 1.0
rate
General divorce rate:
Male NA 0.5 NA NA NA NA NA 0.7 1.8 2.8 2.6 3.1 2.8
Female NA 1.6 NA NA NA NA NA 1.7 0.9 2.7 2.6 3.1 2.8
Crude 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.3
separation rate
General separation rate:
Male NA 0.3 NA NA NA NA NA 0.4 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.1 0.9
Female NA 0.6 NA NA NA NA NA 0.6 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.1 0.9
Mean age at marriage:
Male 25.3 23.4 23.6 23.8 23.8 23.9 24.9 24.8 24.3 25.9 26.4 26.3 26.2
Female 17.9 18.1 18.4 19.1 18.5 18.7 18.6 19.3 18.4 18.5 18.7 18.8 18.8
Median age at
marriage:
Male NA NA NA NA NA NA 24.0 25.0 24.0 24.0 25.0 25.0 25.0
Female NA NA NA NA NA NA 18.0 19.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 18.0

Background Year
Mean age at first
marriage:
Male NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 24.3 24.9 25.3 25.2 25.1
Female NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 17.9 18.3 18.4 18.4 18.4
Median age at
first marriage:
Male NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 24.0 24.0 25.0 25.0 25
Female NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 18.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 18
SMAM:
Male 25.6 25.7 25.6 25.9 26.0 26.1 26.1 26.0 25.47 25.4 25.8 25.7 25.6
Female 19.5 19.3 19.4 20.3 20.3 20.2 20.5 20.3 20.02 20.0 20.3 20.3 20.3
NA: Not available

Map 5.1: Mean age at first marriage of male by Zila, SVRS 2017

Map 5.2: Mean age at first marriage of female by Zila, SVRS 2017

CHAPTER VI
Contraceptive Usage
6.1 Introduction
The findings presented in this chapter are the outcomes of data collected through Schedule-9
canvassed for Monitoring the Situation of Vital Statistics of Bangladesh (MSVSB) project of BBS for
the year 2017. The schedule in question was used for collecting data on the usage of the family
planning methods. Specifically, the schedule includes such information on family planning as user‘s
name, current age, level of education and economic activities of couples, ever-use and current use
status of family planning methods, and methods used.
6.2 Current Use of Contraception
Current use of contraception is defined as the percent of currently married women who reported to
have been using a family planning method at the time of the inquiry. The resulting value is the so
called contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR). The estimated CPRs by some background characteristics
have been presented in Table 6.1.
Overall, 62.5 per cent of the currently married women aged 15–49 are currently using any method of
contraception. Urban women are more likely (66.3%) to adopt family planning methods than their
rural counterparts (59.4%). Women in Barishal division topped the women of other divisions in the
use contraception (71.5%) followed by the women in Rajshahi division (67.8%). The least use was
reported among the women in Sylhet division (50.5%). The level of use of contraception by the
currently women by administrative division had shown a dramatic change over a period of only one
year. This is evident from the fact that, while the women in Rangpur division in 2016 with a use rate
of 82.8 percent were the most users of contraceptives; this has shifted to the women in Barishal
division but with a much lower rate of 71.5%. There has been a shift in the least use rate too. The least
use rate (50.4%) was prevalent among the women in Chattogram division in 2016, which now is
prevalent among the women in Sylhet division with a use rate of about the same magnitude (50.5%).
As evident from the results presented in Table 9.1, the overall use of contraception by and larger, does
not seem to be in much variation over the last one year. For example, the CPR as recorded in 2016
was 62.3, which rose to 62.5 in 2017, a difference of only 0.2 percentage points. Urban women are
more likely (66.3%) to adopt contraception than their rural counterparts (59.4%). The corresponding
rates were 65.9 percent in urban area and 59.3 percent in rural area in 2016.
The age pattern of current use of contraception is seen to resemble the age pattern of fertility: younger
women are in smaller proportion to use contraception, which increases as age advances and then
declines at older ages. It is the highest (71.6%) for those who are aged 30–34 followed by (70.4%) for
those who are aged 25-29. As observed the rate is the lowest at the extreme ages, 40. percent for those
who are aged 45–49.

Table 6.1: Current use of contraceptive methods among the currently married women by
background characteristics, SVRS 2017
Background Any Method Modern Traditional Method
Characteristics Method
Residence:
Rural 59.4 56.6 2.8
Urban 66.3 62.5 3.8
Women age:
15-19 56.6 54.0 2.6
20-24 60.6 58.0 2.6
25-29 70.4 67.2 3.2
30-34 71.6 68.2 3.4
35-39 65.4 61.7 3.7
40-44 57.0 53.2 3.8
45-49 40.2 37.0 3.2
Division:
Barishal 71.5 67.6 3.9
Chattogram 55.6 52.8 2.7
Dhaka 62.9 59.4 3.5
Khulna 64.9 61.4 3.4
Rajshahi 67.8 64.6 3.2
Rangpur 65.4 62.1 3.3
Sylhet 50.5 47.6 3.0
Total 62.5 59.2 3.3
The current use of contraception as reported in BDHS 2014 was 62.4 percent, a result consistent with
our findings of 2017, though the rates are not strictly comparable for methodological reasons.
As to the use of modern versus traditional methods, 59.2 percent of the currently married women in
the SVRS area were the users of modern methods as opposed to only 3.3 percent of the women
reporting to have been using traditional methods. The corresponding rates in the 2014 BDHS were
reported to be 54.1 and 8.4 respectively resulting in an overall rate of 62.5 percent.
The use of modern methods is the highest for the younger women starting with a rate of 54.0 percent
for those who are aged 15–19. This increases to 68.2 percent when they are 30-34 years of age. The
rate then sharply falls as age advances and reaches to 37.0 percent when the women reach to the end
of their reproductive life span. The age pattern of use of modern methods agrees quite well with that
of any method discussed earlier.
The use of modern methods of contraceptives in urban area exceeds the use in rural area by 5.9
percentage points (62.5% vs 56.6%).
Use of modern methods of contraception varies substantially between administrative divisions ranging
from as low as 47.6 percent in Sylhet division to as high as 67.6 percent in Barishal division. It may
be recalled that the pattern of use of modern method is highly consistent with pattern as observed in
the case of any method.
Use of traditional methods increases consistently with the age of the currently married women: from
2.6 percent when the women are aged 15-19. This increases at a slow pace as age advances till 40–44.
Contrary to our common believe, urban women are more likely to use traditional methods (3.8%)

compared to their rural counterparts (2.8%). The use rate of traditional methods is more prevalent
among the women of Barishal division (3.9%) followed by Dhaka division (3.5%). The least use rate
of traditional methods (2.7%) was reported in Chattogram division.
6.3 Ever Use of Contraception

Ever use of family planning methods in SVRS refers to the use of any contraceptive methods at any
point of time before the date of interview without making distinction between past and current use.
Any respondent reporting that she or her husband had used some form of contraception was included
as an ever user regardless of the time of use. Thus, a reported ever user might be a past or a current
user.
Table 6.2 shows the prevalence of ever-use of any method of contraception by the currently married
women with respect to a few selected background characteristics of the respondents. The overall rate
of ever use as reported in 2017 round of survey is 76.7 which was 82.2 percent in 2016 showing a
decrease of only 5.5 percentage points in one year. The age-specific ever use rate is the highest
(82.3%) who are aged 30–34 and the lowest (64.8%) among the women in 45–49 age group. The age
pattern of ever use closely resembles the current use rate as shown in Table 6.1. The highest ever use
(86.7%) was reported in Barishal division followed by Khulna division (80.9%). The least (63.4%)
ever-use rate was reported in Sylhet division. The urban-rural ever use rates differ by a big margin of
over 5 percentage points, from 79.5 percent in urban area to 74.3 percent in rural area. The levels and
patterns in ever use of modern methods are nearly identical to the levels and patterns found in the case
of ever use any method of contraceptives.
In line with the current use rates of traditional methods, ever use rates of traditional methods
progresses slowly as age advances, from 1.0 percent at ages 15–19 to 2.2 percent at ages 40–44,
which thereafter recorded a moderate decline of 0.3 percentage points to age 45–49.
Table 6.2: Ever use of contraceptive methods among the married women by background
Background Any Modern method Traditional
Characteristics method method
Women age:
15-19 69.0 68.0 1.0
20-24 72.5 71.3 1.2
25-29 80.8 79.4 1.4
30-34 82.3 80.7 1.6
35-39 80.0 78.1 1.9
40-44 75.8 73.6 2.2
45-49 64.8 62.9 1.9
Residence:
Rural 74.3 73.2 1.2
Urban 79.5 77.3 2.2
Division:
Barishal 86.7 84.7 1.9
Dhaka 78.1 76.6 1.5
Khulna 80.9 79.0 2.0
Rajshahi 80.6 79.4 1.2
Background Any Modern method Traditional
Characteristics method method
Rangpur 76.7 75.2 1.6
Sylhet 63.4 61.8 1.6
Total 76.7 75.0 1.6
6.4 Method-Specific Use

Table 6.3 presents the use of contraception by type of specific methods. As expected, oral pill is the
most preferred choice among the women being reported by 33.4 percent of the total users, a result
highly consistent the result of 2016 round of SVRS. After oral pill, Bangladeshi women are more
likely to use injections (13.4%) followed by condom (8.6%). Of the total users (62.5%) of any
method, only 0.3 percent used male sterilization, 0.9 percent copper–T, 1.6 percent female
sterilization, 0.4 percent foam and 0.5 percent Norplant. The remaining 3.3 percent was the users of
any traditional methods. The level of traditional method use in 2017 is 0.6 percentage point lower
than its previous year‘s level.
Table 6.3.Method-specific contraceptive use rate among currently married women by age,
SVRS 2017
Method used
Age
Number of Any Oral Male Copper-T Female Foam Traditional
group Condom Injections Norplant MR
women method Pill Sterilization (IUD) Sterilization tablet method
15-19 7675 56.6 12.1 34.3 6.5 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 2.6
20-24 26920 60.6 9.8 35.4 10.8 0.2 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1 2.6
25-29 38737 70.4 10.0 39.1 15.0 0.3 0.9 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.1 3.2
30-34 37262 71.6 8.7 38.0 17.1 0.4 1.2 1.5 0.5 0.6 0.1 3.4
35-39 30043 65.4 7.7 33.0 15.7 0.4 1.2 2.5 0.5 0.6 0.1 3.7
40-44 20972 57.0 7.0 27.6 12.9 0.5 1.1 3.3 0.3 0.4 0.1 3.8
45-49 12070 40.2 5.8 19.1 7.8 0.4 0.7 2.8 0.2 0.2 0.0 3.2
Total 173679 62.5 8.6 33.4 13.4 0.3 0.9 1.6 0.4 0.5 0.1 3.3
6.5 Contraceptive Method-Mix

Contraceptive method-mix indicates the percentage distribution of contraceptive users by type of
method used. Countries typically use this indicator for planning, especially for commodities and
logistics planning. The method-mix provides a profile of the relative level of use of different
contraceptive methods. A broad method-mix suggests that the population has access to a range of
different contraceptive methods. Conversely, method mix can signal: (1) provider bias in the system,
if one method is strongly favored to the exclusion of others; (2) user preferences; or (3) both. Table
6.4 shows the contraceptive method-mix by background characteristics of the women. Overall, pill is
the most widely used method accounting for 56.3 percent of the CPR, followed by injections (22.6%).
This pattern is uniformly maintained for all the background characteristics of the women. A close
examination of the method-mix shows that the level of pill use is negatively associated with age: by
and large, higher the age, lower is the preference for pill by the women except for a few age groups.
On the other hand, age is positively associated with the use of injections in the broad age span 15–35.
The distribution of the method-mix does not show any variation by divisions.

Table 6.4: Contraceptive method mix (%) by background characteristics, SVRS 2017
Background Oral Male Female Foam
Modern Condom Injections Copper-T Norplant MR
Characteristics Pill Sterilization Sterilization tablet
Age group:
15-19 100.0 22.3 63.6 12.0 0.2 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2
20-24 100.0 16.8 61.1 18.7 0.3 1.1 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.1
25-29 100.0 14.9 58.2 22.3 0.4 1.4 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.1
30-34 100.0 12.8 55.7 25.1 0.6 1.7 2.3 0.8 0.9 0.1
35-39 100.0 12.4 53.5 25.4 0.7 1.9 4.1 0.9 1.0 0.1
40-44 100.0 13.2 51.8 24.3 0.9 2.0 6.1 0.6 0.8 0.1
45-49 100.0 15.7 51.6 21.3 1.0 1.8 7.6 0.5 0.6 0.0
Residence:
Rural 100.0 9.2 58.4 25.3 0.7 1.8 2.9 0.7 0.8 0.1
Urban 100.0 20.4 54.0 19.5 0.4 1.4 2.5 0.8 0.8 0.1
Division:
Barishal 100.0 11.9 54.5 27.0 0.7 1.5 1.5 1.0 1.7 0.1
Chattogram 100.0 11.7 55.5 26.7 0.5 1.3 2.4 0.8 0.9 0.2
Dhaka 100.0 16.6 58.6 19.5 0.5 1.7 2.0 0.5 0.6 0.1
Khulna 100.0 16.9 54.5 23.3 0.5 1.4 1.8 0.8 0.8 0.1
Rajshahi 100.0 17.5 52.2 21.7 0.5 1.7 4.8 0.9 0.5 0.1
Rangpur 100.0 11.7 59.4 23.3 0.8 1.2 2.3 0.6 0.6 0.0
Sylhet 100.0 12.7 59.4 17.2 0.8 2.5 5.5 0.9 0.8 0.2
Total 100.0 14.5 56.3 22.6 0.6 1.6 2.7 0.8 0.8 0.1
6.6 Trends in Contraceptive Use: 2005-2017
There has been a gradual increase in the use of contraceptive methods in Bangladesh over the last 40
years since 1975 when the First Bangladesh Fertility Survey was undertaken recording a contraceptive
prevalence rate of 7.7 percent. The Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) of 2014
reported this rate to be 62.4 percent, a more than 8-fold increase in the last 40 years. The SVRS area
also demonstrated a substantial increase from 57.0 in 2005 to 62.5 in 2017, nearly a 10 percent
increase in about 13 years‘ time. During this period, the increase in the contraceptive use rate in rural
area was also about 8 percent, from 55.2 percent in 2005 to 59.4 percent in 2017, while in the urban
area this increase was to the extent of 9.7 percent: from 60.4 percent to 66.3. Table 6.5 presents an
overview of the trends in contraceptive use since the initiation of the SVRS program of registration of
the vital events in Bangladesh.
Note that, while the modern method use has shown an increase of 14.5 percent during 2005–2017, the
traditional method use has correspondingly gone down by more than 35 percent. Use of condom over
this time recorded an erratic increase from 5.2 percent in 2005 to 8.6 percent in 2017, while the use of
oral pill remained almost static remaining somewhere between 35 and 36 percent reaching at 33.4
percent in 2017.

Table 6.5: Trends in current use of contraceptive methods (%), SVRS 2005–2017
Years
Method
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Any method 57.0 58.3 55.0 52.6 56.1 56.7 58.3 62.2 62.4 62.2 62.1 62.3 62.5
Any method (rural 55.2 57.1 53.8 51.1 54.4 55.3 56.0 59.8 61.1 61.6 60.4 59.3 59.4
Any method (urban) 60.4 60.5 57.0 55.3 58.7 60.9 62.2 66.1 63.4 64.5 64.5 65.9 66.3
Any modern
51.7 52.5 51.8 50.6 53.6 54.8 56.6 60.2 60.0 58.4 58.4 58.4 59.2
method:
Condom 5.2 6.8 4.4 3.2 5.5 3.8 4.0 5.3 5.0 5.1 7.2 5.8 8.6
Oral pill 35.4 36.2 34.5 37.9 37.1 34.4 35.0 35.8 36.1 34.8 32.7 33.4 33.4
Injections 8.5 7.0 10.3 8.0 9.0 12.7 12.8 14.0 14.6 14.7 14.5 15.2 13.4
Male sterilization 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.49 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3
Copper–T 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.8 0.9 1.1 0.9 0.9 1.0 0.8 0.9
Female sterilization: 1.8 1.7 1.9 0.9 1.3 2.0 2.1 2.5 1.8 1.7 1.8 2.0 1.6
Foam NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4
Norplant NA NA NA NA NA 0.0 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Any traditional
5.1 5.3 5.8 3.2 2.1 2.5 2.0 1.8 2.0 2.4 3.8 3.9 3.3
method
NA- Not Available

Trends in CPR by locality in case of current use are provided in Figure 6.1.
Figure 6.1: Trends in current use of contraception by locality, SVRS 2017

Map 6.1: Current usage of contraception by Zila, SVRS 2017

CHAPTER VII
Internal Migration
Migration, more specifically the human migration is the movement by people from one place to
another with the intention of settling in new and geographically different locations. The movements,
more specifically the spatial movements, involve a change of place of usual residence and crossing of
a political boundary resulting in taking-up of life in a new or different place. Migration may involve
individuals, family units or large groups.
In the study area migration data were collected using Schedule -7 & 8. The period of movement in the
case of SVRS has been fixed at six months or more except for marriage in which case the time period
is not fixed.
7.1 Migration Rate
The overall in-migration rate in the sample area in 2017 was estimated to be 73.8 per thousand
population. This compares with an out-migration rate of 74.3 per thousand population resulting in a
net loss of 0.5 persons per thousand population. These rates were 76.7 and 78.5 in 2016 but much
lower in 2015: 54.2 versus 54.5, a gain of 0.3 persons per 1000 population. Migratory movement of
the females was more pronounced than their male counterparts. For example, while only 67.4 per
thousand males made moves to the sample area, the corresponding rate for females was to the extent
of 80.3 per thousand. A similar feature of movement was also noted in the case of out-migration: 69.0
for males and over 79.5 for females.
The incidence of in-migration in rural area was more than one third of the incidence with respect to
the same event in urban area (37.8:119.4). The tendency to out-migrate of the urban people was also
very high compared to their rural counterparts; the urban-rural ratio being 2.6 to 1.0.The flow of out-
migration from rural area exceeds the in-migration resulting in a net loss of 5.7 persons per thousand
population. The urban area, on the contrary, is a gaining population with a net migration rate of 6.1
persons per thousand populations.
The overall in and out-migration rates resulted in a gross migration rate of 148.1 persons per thousand
population, Barishal division recorded the highest out migration rate (109.3), while Rajshahi the
lowest (56.7). In-migration is also the highest (115.3) in Barishal division, while the lowest rate (55.5)
was experienced in Rajshahi division.
Table 7.1: Migration rates per 1000 population by sex and selected background
Back ground Male Female Both sexes
Characteristics In- Out- In- Out- In- Out-
migration migration migration migration migration migration
Residence:
Rural 30.3 38.6 45.4 48.4 37.8 43.5
Urban 114.5 107.6 124.4 118.9 119.4 113.3
Division:
Barishal 106.7 103.9 124.1 114.7 115.3 109.3
Chattogram 62.6 85.5 71.6 89.7 67.2 87.6
Back ground Male Female Both sexes
Characteristics In- Out- In- Out- In- Out-
Dhaka 73.7 60.3 82.7 64.9 78.2 62.6
Khulna 72.4 66.1 86.9 78.6 79.6 72.3
Rajshahi 46.4 47.4 64.9 66.3 55.5 56.7
Rangpur 48.7 60.7 66.3 81.0 57.4 70.7
Sylhet 65.8 68.7 75.3 76.8 70.6 72.8
Total 67.4 69.0 80.3 79.5 73.8 74.3
7.2 Age–Specific Migration Rates

Age specific migration rates presented in Table 7.2 are simple refinements of the migration rates
presented above in Table 7.1. The age specific rates are particularly important in understanding how
the incidence of migration varies over the life cycle. The rates by five-year age groups of the migrants
are presented in Table 7.2. The highest incidence of in and out migration for both sexes together was
noted in the broad age group 15–29.
A high proportion of females move in and out when they are in the broad age group 15–29. Males are
half as likely as the females to migrate both in and out when they are in the age group 15–24.
Investigation shows that a substantial number of children of 0–4 age group move in and out along
with their parents as a result of which migration of these children occurs at a high rate. The age
patterns of migrants obtained in 2017 are similar to the one obtained in 2016 in terms of their levels
and patterns but significantly different from one another in terms of its structure.
Table 7.2: Age -specific migration rates per 1000 population by sex, SVRS 2017
(Overall)
Male Female Both sexes
Age In- Out- In- Out- In- Out-
group migration migration migration migration migration migration
0-4 94.5 83.7 93.6 79.0 94.0 81.4
5-9 76.2 73.6 70.8 68.7 73.5 71.1
10-14 56.8 59.8 59.4 71.6 58.1 65.7
15-19 49.2 58.5 165.5 166.8 102.4 108.0
20-24 63.2 83.4 129.6 130.4 99.1 108.9
25-29 99.9 97.7 104.3 103.9 102.3 101.1
30-34 93.9 98.1 69.6 74.1 81.1 85.5
35-39 86.6 86.2 62.3 60.6 74.4 73.4
40-44 63.8 66.9 44.4 48.1 54.4 57.8
45-49 55.4 50.5 47.3 46.4 51.7 48.7
50-54 45.4 47.3 36.9 36.5 41.1 41.8
55-59 38.6 36.9 33.4 28.7 36.1 32.9
60-64 39.5 39.7 38.3 32.8 38.9 36.4
65-69 28.6 27.1 32.2 24.0 30.4 25.6
70-74 32.7 25.4 49.3 28.5 40.4 26.8
75+ 29.0 27.0 53.8 25.7 41.2 26.4
Total 67.4 69.0 80.3 79.5 73.8 74.3

Tables 7.3 and 7.4 present the age and sex specific migration rates for rural and urban areas
separately. Here too, in the rural area, migratory movement both in and out is more pronounced
among the females compared to the males. In contrast, there are little sex-differentials in migration in
the urban area.
Table 7.3: Age-specific migration rates per 1000 population by sex, SVRS 2017
(Rural area)
Age In- Out- In- Out- In Out
group migration migration migration migration -migration -migration
0-4 44.7 43.5 45.7 38.0 45.2 40.7
5-9 35.6 38.5 33.0 36.0 34.3 37.2
10-14 25.4 31.2 30.6 45.5 28.0 38.2
15-19 21.0 37.8 149.5 155.5 77.4 89.4
20-24 31.3 59.6 80.9 90.6 57.6 76.0
25-29 49.4 62.3 51.0 55.7 50.2 58.8
30-34 41.4 56.9 27.8 37.1 34.2 46.4
35-39 37.6 49.2 23.9 27.2 30.6 38.1
40-44 25.7 34.2 16.3 20.1 21.1 27.2
45-49 21.6 22.7 18.4 16.2 20.2 19.7
50-54 17.8 22.3 18.1 16.8 18.0 19.4
55-59 16.0 15.2 15.1 12.7 15.6 13.9
60-64 15.9 13.9 20.5 13.7 18.1 13.8
65-69 13.7 13.4 20.3 11.4 17.0 12.4
70-74 15.7 10.2 31.7 16.8 23.1 13.2
75+ 18.9 14.8 39.5 11.7 28.9 13.3
Total 30.3 38.6 45.4 48.4 37.8 43.5
Table 7.4: Age-specific migration rates per 1000 population by sex, SVRS 2017
(Urban area)
Age group In- Out- In- Out- In- Out-
0-4 163.5 139.3 159.8 135.9 161.7 137.6
5-9 131.6 121.6 123.5 114.2 127.6 117.9
10-14 103.0 102.0 100.8 109.2 101.9 105.6
15-19 89.1 87.8 184.4 180.2 135.1 132.4
20-24 103.0 113.1 184.5 175.5 148.2 147.4
25-29 157.7 138.2 162.8 156.8 160.5 148.4
30-34 151.6 143.4 117.7 116.7 134.0 129.6
35-39 139.4 126.1 106.0 98.6 122.9 112.5
40-44 105.4 102.7 78.4 82.0 92.7 93.0
45-49 93.4 81.9 80.8 81.5 87.8 81.7
50-54 77.1 76.2 61.9 62.6 69.6 69.5
55-59 66.1 63.3 59.7 51.6 63.1 57.9
60-64 69.5 72.5 63.9 60.4 66.9 66.9

Age group In- Out- In- Out- In- Out-
65-69 50.3 47.2 50.6 43.4 50.4 45.3
70-74 60.3 50.0 77.4 47.4 68.3 48.8
75+ 48.9 51.0 79.6 51.1 64.5 51.0
Total 114.5 107.6 124.4 118.9 119.4 113.3
7.3 Causes of Out-Migration
The causes of migration have been presented in Table 7.5. A large number of people move (in and
out) for shear reasons of living with their family members. This cause accounts for about 50.0 percent
of all causes in the case of in-migration and 44.6 percent in the case of out-migration. Matrimonial
cause also stands out as a second important cause especially among the females. Farming also plays a
vital role in the process. Causes of migration by age, sex and distributions of migrants by causes are
shown in the appendix in greater details.
Table 7.5: Causes of in and out-migration by sex, SVRS 2017
In-migration Out-migration
Causes of migration
Male Female Both sexes Male Female Both sexes
Matrimonial 4.3 16.5 10.9 2.9 17.0 10.4
Education 3.2 2.8 3.0 3.5 2.8 3.1
In search of job 4.8 2.7 3.7 5.5 2.5 3.9
To perform job duty 3.8 1.7 2.7 3.2 1.4 2.3
Due to transfer 5.5 2.4 3.8 5.9 2.9 4.3
River eroded 1.8 1.3 1.5 2.2 1.8 2.0
Farming 14.1 6.2 9.8 16.9 6.6 11.4
To live with family 42.6 56.2 50.0 37.1 51.1 44.6
Business 4.9 1.5 3.1 3.9 1.3 2.5
Due to retirement 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.4
Abroad 2.0 0.2 1.0 3.0 0.7 1.8
Others 12.7 8.4 10.4 15.6 11.5 13.4
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
The trends in migration rates in Bangladesh over the last 30 years both in and out are shown in Figure
7.1 and Figure 7.2.

Figure 7.1: In-migration rates per 1000 population, SVRS 2002-2017
Figure 7.2: Out- migration rates per 1000 population, SVRS 1984-2017

CHAPTER VIII
Disability
Disability is an umbrella term, a consequence of impairment that covers physical activity limitations,
and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity
limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while
a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.
Thus, disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person‘s
body and features of the society in which he or she lives. A disability may remain present from birth,
or occur during a person's lifetime.
An individual may also be labeled disabled if he/she has had impairment in the past or is seen as
disabled based on a personal or group standard or norm. Such impairments may include physical,
sensory, and cognitive or developmental disabilities. Mental disorders (also known as psychiatric or
psychosocial disability) and various types of chronic disease may also qualify as disabilities.
Some advocates object to describing certain conditions (notably deafness and autism) as "disabilities",
arguing that it is more appropriate to consider them developmental differences that have been unfairly
stigmatized by society. Furthermore, other advocates argue that disability is a result of exclusion from
mainstream society and not any inherent impairment.
The types of disability present in a member of a household considered in SVRS-2015 are as follows:
 Problem to view even with spectacles;
 Problem of hearing even with hearing aids;
 Problem to wake up;
 Problem to remember something due to sickness;
 Problem of self-care such as eating, bathing, using toilet and wearing dress;
 Problem to understand another person and
 Problems of communicating to others and the like.
8.1 Level of Disability
Based on the information collected through SVRS Schedule–10, the present chapter has been
developed to shed light on the disability scenario in the study area. The simplest measure of disability
is the crude disability rate. It is defined as the ratio of the disabled persons to the total mid-year
population expressed in percentage. These rates have been presented in Table 8.1 with respect to some
background characteristics of the population. These characteristics include, among others residence,
geographic division, religion and level of education of household head.
As noted in the table under reference, about 9 per thousand population suffer from some form of
disability. Males suffer relatively more (9.8) from disability than their female counterparts (8.0). The
overall disability rate as recorded in 2017 virtually does not show any discernable change over the last
5 years.

Urban people are less likely (6.8) than the rural people (10.6) to suffer from disability. This is in
conformity with the 2016 results. Rangpur has the highest (11.3)) disability rate followed by Rajshahi
with a rate of 10.2 per thousand population and the lowest (7.1)) is prevalent in Dhaka division.
Highest prevalence of disability (12.2) is noted among the Christians and Buddhists. Contrary our
previous year‘s findings, Hindus are more likely (9.1) to suffer from disability compared to their
Muslim counterparts (8.7). By and large, the disability rate shows a consistent fall as the level of
education increases except that for those who have above secondary level of education. In contrast to
our findings, the sample census of 2011 revealed an overall disability rate of 14.1. This might have
fallen to a lower level within a time lag of 6 years since 2011 thus approaching the SVRS findings of
2017.
Table 8.1: Disability rate per 1000 population by sex and background characteristics, SVRS
2017
Background Sex
Residence:
Rural 11.8 9.4 10.6
Urban 7.3 6.3 6.8
Division:
Barishal 9.2 7.8 8.5
Dhaka 7.2 7.0 7.1
Khulna 10.8 7.9 9.4
Rajshahi 11.6 8.7 10.2
Rangpur 12.9 9.6 11.3
Sylhet 11.5 7.3 9.4
Religion:
Muslim 9.7 7.7 8.7
Hindu 10.4 7.9 9.1
Others 11.5 12.9 12.2
Household head education:
No education 13.5 9.3 11.2
Primary 8.8 7.1 8.0
Secondary 9.9 6.7 8.2
Above secondary 6.6 7.6 7.0
Total 9.8 8.0 8.9
8.2 Age Pattern of Disability

As shown in Table 8.2, the disability rates do not seem to vary by age until age 55 years when the rate
shows an alarmingly increasing trend. The rate progresses at a slow pace from 3.8 per thousand
population at age 0–4 to 8.5 per thousand population at age 50–54 and thereafter shows an abrupt
increase as expected. The age pattern of disability among the males is almost identical to the pattern
as observed among females. The rates are displayed graphically in Figure 8.1.

Table 8.2: Disability rates per 1000 population by age and sex, SVRS 2017
Sex
Age groups
0-4 4.2 3.3 3.8
5-9 7.8 5.7 6.7
10-14 9.6 6.8 8.2
15-19 8.9 8.5 8.7
20-24 9.2 5.8 7.4
25-29 7.9 5.9 6.8
30-34 7.9 5.3 6.5
35-39 6.0 4.9 5.5
40-44 7.6 6.1 6.9
45-49 7.5 6.4 7.0
50-54 9.9 7.2 8.5
55-59 11.0 10.4 10.7
60-64 16.7 17.1 16.9
65+ 37.2 37.5 37.3
Total 9.8 8.0 8.9
Figure 8.1: Age pattern of disability by sex, SVRS 2017
The district level disability rates are shown in Map 8.1.
8.3 Intensity of Disability
The survey captured three types of disability that reflect the intensity associated with disability, viz.
complete disability, complex disability and light or partial disability. The resulting estimates of these
phenomena are presented in Table 8.3. As shown in the table under reference, of those who were
reported to be disabled, 30.6 percent of them were completely disabled, 42.3 percent had complex
disability and 27.1 percent were partially or light disabled. A close examination of the data presented
in Table 8.3 by sex reveals that there are virtually no differences between males and females with
respect to the intensity of disability. The same is true with regard to the residential status: urban
residents are as likely as the rural people to experience disability. This is true across all intensities of
disability.
8.3 Types and Causes of Disability
Most people were reported to be suffering from ‗wake up‘ type of disability. This accounts for about
23.1 percent of all cases. Next to this is the problem of taking care of self in performing such activities
as eating, bathing, toilet use, and wearing dress. This accounts for 18.2 percent of all cases. A
substantial proportion (19.5) of the people are unable to understand others or even themselves. These
findings are in close agreement with results obtained in 2017 round of survey. The results of this
investigation are presented in Table 8.3.
The survey made an effort to identify the causes of disability prevalent in the study area. These
include, among others, natal, accident, general illness, old age, wrong treatment. The most
conspicuous cause of disability has been identified to be associated with birth or birth injury (natal).
This accounts for a little over half (52.1%) of the total cases of disability followed by some sort of
undefined illness (21.6%). The other causes as reported were accident (10.8%), old age senility
(10.8%), and wrong treatment (2.8%). Neither sex nor the place of birth makes any pronounced
variation with respect to the causes of disability. The lower panel of Table 8.3 shows these findings.
Table 8.3: Intensity, type and causes of disability by background characteristics, SVRS
2017
Rural Urban Total
Intensity, Type and
Male Female Both Male Female Both Male Female Both
Causes of Disability
sexes sexes sexes
Intensity of disability:
(a) Completely disabled 31.4 32.4 31.9 27.6 28.4 28.0 30.2 31.1 30.6
(b) Complex disabled
(not completely 42.2 41.6 41.9 43.3 43.0 43.2 42.6 42.1 42.3
disabled)
(c) Light disabled 26.4 26.0 26.2 29.0 28.6 28.8 27.2 26.9 27.1
Type of disability:
(a) Problem to see even
9.0 9.4 9.2 8.9 10.6 9.7 9.0 9.8 9.4
with eye glass
(b) Hard of hearing even
7.5 9.5 8.4 6.2 6.2 6.2 7.1 8.4 7.7
with hearing aids
(c) Problem to wake up 24.5 20.8 22.9 24.1 22.9 23.5 24.3 21.5 23.1
(d) Problem to
remember something for 11.2 10.7 11.0 13.7 11.2 12.5 12.0 10.9 11.5
sickness
(e) Problem of taking
care of self in
performing such
17.6 19.5 18.4 17.4 18.0 17.7 17.5 19.0 18.2
activities as eating,
bathing, toilet using and
wearing the dress
(f) Problem to
understand others or 20.1 19.2 19.7 18.0 20.2 19.0 19.4 19.5 19.5
even self
(g) Others 10.1 10.9 10.5 11.7 10.8 11.3 10.7 10.9 10.7

Rural Urban Total
Intensity, Type and
Male Female Both Male Female Both Male Female Both
Causes of Disability
sexes sexes sexes
Causes of disability:
(a) Natal 53.4 52.3 52.9 51.4 49.3 50.5 52.8 51.2 52.1
(b) Accident 13.6 8.1 11.2 11.9 8.1 10.1 13.0 8.1 10.8
(c) Illness 19.6 23.4 21.3 21.6 23.1 22.3 20.3 23.3 21.6
(d) Being old aged 8.2 11.8 9.8 10.8 15.3 12.8 9.1 13.0 10.8
(e) Wrong treatment 3.2 2.6 3.0 2.4 2.5 2.5 3.0 2.6 2.8
(f) Others 1.9 1.8 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.8 1.8
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Map 8.1: Disability rates (per 1000 population) by Zila, SVRS 2017

CHAPTER IX
HIV/AIDS Related Knowledge and Attitudes
9.1 Introduction
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is
a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Following initial infection, a person may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. This is
typically followed by a prolonged period without symptoms. As the infection progresses, it interferes
more and more with the immune system, making the person much more susceptible to common
infections like tuberculosis, as well as opportunistic infections and tumors that do not usually affect
people who have working immune systems. The late symptoms of the infection are referred to as
AIDS. This stage is often complicated by an infection of the lung known as pneumocystis pneumonia,
severe weight loss, a type of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma, or other AIDS-defining conditions.
HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse (including anal and oral sex),
contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy,
delivery, or breastfeeding. Some bodily fluids, such as saliva and tears, do not transmit HIV. Common
methods of HIV/AIDS prevention include encouraging safe sex, needle-exchange programs, and
treating those who are infected. There is no cure or vaccine; however, antiretroviral treatment can
slow the course of the disease and may lead to a near-normal life expectancy. While antiretroviral
treatment reduces the risk of death and complications from the disease, these medications are
expensive and have side effects. Without treatment, the average survival time after infection with HIV
is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype.
Since its discovery, AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths worldwide (as of 2012). In 2013
it resulted in about 1.34 million deaths. As of 2012, approximately 35.3 million people are living with
HIV globally. HIV/AIDS is considered a pandemic—a disease outbreak which is present over a large
area and is actively spreading. Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in West-Central Africa
during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. HIV/ AIDS was first recognized by the United
States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1981 and its cause—HIV infection—was
identified in the early part of the decade.
HIV/AIDS has had a great impact on society, both as an illness and as a source of discrimination. The
disease also has significant economic impacts. There are many misconceptions about HIV/AIDS such
as the belief that it can be transmitted by casual non-sexual contact. The disease has become subject to
many controversies involving religion. It has attracted international medical and political attention as
well as large-scale funding since it was identified in the 1980s.
9.2 Level of Knowledge
Bangladesh is a low HIV-prevalence country, and as such poses no immediate threat to the general
population. Yet the country‘s HIV/AID prevention program was initiated in 1985. The first case of
HIV was detected in 1989. In 2014, a total of 433 new cases of HIV infection, 251 AIDS cases and 91
deaths due to AIDS were reported (BDHS, 2014). The number of HIV-positive people increased,
from 1207 in 2007 to 3674 in 2014, implying a 3-fold increase over a period of 7 years (Bdnews
24.com, 2014). Keeping this aggravating scenario in perspective, it is important to assess the current
knowledge, awareness and attitudes towards HIV/AID prevention and transmission among the general
population particularly among those who are the most vulnerable group. Correct knowledge and
information is the first step towards raising awareness and thus protect them from this deadly disease.

The present chapter is devoted to assess the knowledge and attitude of the respondents in the SVRS
area on the HIV/AIDS through a limited number of questions incorporated in Schedule–11.
9.2.1 Awareness of HIV/AIDS
On a query to the reasons associated with the causes of HIV/AIDS, a little over 71.2 percent women
mentioned ‗unsafe sexual relation‘ as one of the main causes of HIV/AIDS as shown in Table 9.1.
This knowledge has increased by about 9.5 percent in one year period, from 65 percent in 2016 to
71.2 percent in 2017. Urban women are over 16 percent more aware of this knowledge compared to
their rural counterparts. Four percent of the women believe that some supernatural means might be
responsible to cause this havoc. This belief is more prevalent among the rural women (4.8%) than
their urban counterparts (2.9%). Non-use of condoms was held responsible as a causative agent of
HIV/AIDS by more than 13 percent of the respondents. This was believed by about 17 percent
respondents in 2016. The respondents also had a misconception that mosquitoes carry this deadly
disease to the human body. This was reported by 6.6 percent of the women. This was prevalent among
7.8 percent of the women last year. About 4 percent of the respondents had a feeling that sharing food
with a person who has AIDS may also cause this disease, while BDHS 2014 reports this knowledge to
be exorbitantly higher (64%).
Table 9.1: Awareness of respondent about HIV/AIDS by background characteristics, SVRS
2017
Awareness of respondent
Correct Unsafe Because of Not using From By sharing Others Total
Background knowledge of at sexual Magic or a condom mosquito food with a
Characteristics least one mode relationship other super every bites person who
of transmission natural time they has AIDS
means have sex
Residence:
Rural 75.8 66.4 4.8 14.7 8.5 4.7 0.9 100.0
Urban 84.2 77.1 2.9 11.9 4.1 2.3 1.7 100.0
Age group:
15-19 87.5 74.9 3.0 11.7 5.9 3.0 1.4 100.0
20-24 87.7 74.6 4.3 12.6 4.8 2.7 1.0 100.0
25-29 84.6 72.8 3.5 12.7 6.3 3.4 1.3 100.0
30-34 80.2 69.1 3.6 15.0 7.0 3.9 1.4 100.0
35-39 75.1 67.1 4.7 14.5 7.8 4.5 1.4 100.0
40-44 64.8 66.9 4.8 14.6 8.1 4.5 1.1 100.0
45-49 59.1 65.4 5.1 15.0 8.5 4.7 1.2 100.0
Division:
Barishal 89.2 65.4 6.2 11.8 9.2 4.7 2.8 100.0
Chattogram 78.5 66.6 4.9 16.7 6.6 4.1 1.1 100.0
Dhaka 74.5 72.7 3.7 12.9 6.5 2.9 1.3 100.0
Khulna 84.3 76.2 2.7 12.7 5.0 2.7 0.7 100.0
Rajshahi 74.3 71.9 3.3 14.4 6.0 3.3 1.1 100.0
Rangpur 77.7 74.5 3.5 12.2 5.6 2.7 1.4 100.0
Sylhet 80.1 66.0 4.8 14.0 8.4 5.6 1.1 100.0
Total 79.3 71.2 4.0 13.4 6.6 3.6 1.3 100.0
A little over 79 percent of the women were found to have correct knowledge of at least one mode of
transmission of HIV/AIDS in human body. This was of about the same magnitude in 2016. Rural
women were significantly less likely (75.8%) to have correct knowledge than their urban counterparts

(84.2%). Age of the respondents was highly negatively correlated with this knowledge: higher the
age, lower is the extent of knowledge. Regional variations are marked. Women of Barishal division
were more aware (89.2%) of the correct mode of transmission followed by the women of Khulna
division (84.3%), the least (74.3%) being prevalent among the women of Rajshahi division.
9.2.2 Knowledge on Mode of Transmission of HIV/AIDS
The respondents were asked to say categorically whether HIV/AIDS virus might be transmitted in a
child through his/her mother (i) while the mother is pregnant, (ii) during delivery or (iii) while she is
breast-feeding. The results of this investigation have been presented in Table 9.2. A little more than
57 percent of the ever-married women believed that AIDS may be transmitted to the child from its
mother while the mother is pregnant. This belief is more prevalent among the women in urban area
(62.5%) than in rural area (53.4%). The regional variations in knowledge level are wide ranging
between 50 percent in Chattogram division to 62.3 percent in Khulna division. About 55 percent
women believe that breast-feeding is a viable means of transmission of HIV/AIDS in newborns from
mothers. Keeping in line with the previous findings, the urban women are more in proportion (59.5%)
than the rural women (51.8%) to believe that breast-feeding is a viable means through which AIDS
may be transmitted in children from their mothers.
More than 42 of the women have a misconception that the disease in question might be transmitted to
the children during delivery. This is more prevalent (46.8%) among the urban women, than their rural
counterparts (38.7%).
Table 9.2 further shows that nearly 19 percent of the women expressed their complete ignorance
about the mode of transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus from mothers to their children. This ignorance
has increased substantially in last one year time. At least one mode of transmission is known to about
69 percent of the women. A little over one third of the women were on the opinion that all the three
means viz. during pregnancy, during delivery and through breast-feeding, are responsible to cause
HIV/AIDS to their offspring. The overall impression from the survey results is that younger women
are more aware of the transmission of HIV from mother to child.
Table 9.2: Knowledge of mother-to-child HIV transmission by background characteristics,
SVRS 2017
Background No Know at least Know that During During Through
Characteristics knowledge one mode of all modes of pregnancy delivery breastfeeding
of transmission transmission
transmission
Residence:
Rural 21.6 65.2 30.3 53.4 38.7 51.8
Urban 16.1 73.8 38.0 62.5 46.8 59.5
Age group:
15-19 14.0 76.0 39.1 64.4 47.3 62.7
20-24 12.7 76.8 38.7 64.8 47.9 62.3
25-29 15.7 73.4 36.5 61.5 45.6 59.1
30-34 18.7 68.9 32.4 56.5 41.6 54.4
35-39 23.5 63.3 29.5 51.6 37.9 49.8
40-44 28.5 57.4 26.5 46.7 34.2 44.6
45-49 32.9 52.8 24.2 43.1 31.1 40.8

Background No Know at least Know that During During Through
Characteristics knowledge one mode of all modes of pregnancy delivery breastfeeding
of transmission transmission
transmission
Division:
Barishal 14.8 73.2 27.5 59.5 39.1 54.9
Chattogram 24.1 63.0 23.1 50.0 32.4 47.7
Dhaka 24.6 64.1 29.6 50.8 38.1 51.1
Khulna 14.6 73.2 34.1 62.3 40.8 60.4
Rajshahi 17.0 67.3 40.6 56.7 48.3 56.9
Rangpur 20.7 69.9 41.2 60.5 50.4 55.5
Sylhet 21.4 68.6 27.7 55.9 36.4 53.6
Total 19.3 68.8 33.5 57.2 42.1 55.0

Annexure - 1
Zila Table
Table A1: TFR, CBR, GFR, CDR, IMR, U5MR, CPR, Disability and Mean age at first
marriage by Zila, SVRS 2017
Zila CBR TFR GFR CDR IMR U5MR CPR Crude Mean age at first marriage
Disability Rate Male Female
Bagerhat 18.3 2.2 67.9 4.2 26.2 26.2 69.8 11.3 25.5 18.8
Bandarban 19.6 2.4 74.7 3.2 11.0 44.0 69.2 12.9 22.8 19.4
Barguna 16.7 2.0 62.9 5.7 29.2 29.2 77.7 6.5 27.4 18.2
Barishal 19.5 2.1 70.1 7.7 14.8 31.5 68.9 7.6 26.3 19.5
Bhola 12.4 1.5 49.8 4.8 36.1 57.8 75.2 14.2 24.3 18.1
Bogura 20.7 2.4 75.8 5.3 41.2 50.6 79.2 11.0 23.4 17.1
Brahmanbaria 24.8 2.9 98.5 6.5 18.3 22.9 48.4 10.7 24.4 17.7
Chandpur 25.6 2.7 94.9 5.6 25.5 34.8 61.7 12.2 27.2 18.6
Chattogram 19.7 1.9 67.1 3.6 11.7 15.3 58.9 6.1 28.7 20.4
Chuadanga 16.1 1.9 57.0 5.7 24.7 24.7 60.0 10.9 24.1 17.1
Cumilla 19.8 2.2 72.0 4.7 9.1 19.7 45.8 6.7 24.3 18.3
Cox's Bazar 23.3 2.6 91.0 4.8 31.2 42.5 46.8 7.5 25.9 18.5
Dhaka 12.4 1.2 41.2 3.1 24.3 28.4 60.0 0.3 27.2 20.3
Dinajpur 16.6 1.9 60.8 4.5 24.1 24.1 71.4 10.5 24.0 18.2
Faridpur 19.4 2.3 73.2 3.8 0.0 9.0 47.8 6.6 25.4 18.2
Feni 20.5 2.1 74.5 4.5 0.0 0.0 59.5 5.6 27.5 18.7
Gaibandha 18.8 2.1 69.5 4.1 49.1 49.1 60.0 10.7 24.4 17.3
Gazipur 15.2 1.4 48.5 3.7 22.1 29.4 64.8 8.2 24.4 19.0
Gopalganj 22.3 2.6 88.9 6.4 22.1 22.1 63.4 10.2 25.3 18.0
Habiganj 14.7 1.7 56.1 4.8 36.3 44.0 37.2 15.8 26.2 19.6
Joypurhat 16.7 2.0 59.1 5.5 27.3 27.3 67.5 9.4 23.2 18.4
Jamalpur 19.7 2.5 79.5 5.0 23.3 31.0 73.0 10.1 24.0 17.3
Jashore 16.7 1.9 59.6 4.8 10.9 10.9 66.6 6.8 24.6 17.8
Jhalokati 16.9 2.1 63.7 9.6 20.5 20.5 66.8 9.3 27.3 19.0
Jhenaidah 17.2 2.0 62.4 5.1 15.9 23.8 77.3 9.3 24.9 17.2
Khagrachhari 20.9 2.4 83.4 3.7 30.5 30.5 70.3 12.5 23.5 17.6
Khulna 16.9 1.8 57.7 4.9 22.3 22.3 65.8 7.0 25.8 19.7
Kishorganj 24.2 3.0 98.8 5.7 27.8 36.3 61.9 9.8 25.4 17.9
Kurigram 18.3 2.2 84.8 6.6 38.7 41.2 78.8 11.5 23.5 17.1
Kushtia 20.0 2.3 72.7 6.0 26.3 32.9 69.6 12.6 24.8 19.0
Lakshmipur 17.9 2.1 69.3 5.5 28.4 37.9 53.0 1.6 25.7 18.1
Lalmonirhat 20.3 2.4 79.3 6.4 31.7 58.2 76.7 10.9 23.3 17.9
Madaripur 17.7 2.2 75.1 7.8 42.4 59.3 69.1 10.8 26.5 16.9
Magura 19.8 2.4 73.4 3.4 14.2 14.2 65.1 10.8 27.9 18.5
Manikganj 18.8 2.2 68.9 6.5 0.0 5.5 61.5 10.9 26.1 17.6
Meherpur 18.4 2.1 64.6 4.6 40.4 40.4 82.3 15.6 24.9 17.5
Maulvibazar 20.8 2.2 75.1 5.6 33.9 46.6 51.1 7.2 27.3 20.7
Munshiganj 19.9 2.1 70.8 4.9 35.0 35.0 63.3 16.1 26.8 18.3
Mymensingh 19.3 2.3 77.4 4.2 22.2 27.4 67.0 8.1 23.2 17.5

Zila CBR TFR GFR CDR IMR U5MR CPR Crude Mean age at first marriage
Disability Rate Male Female
Naogaon 14.3 1.7 51.7 5.4 28.6 40.8 74.9 8.2 24.3 17.2
Narail 19.1 2.1 71.3 8.1 38.8 48.5 67.5 8.9 26.4 17.8
Narayanganj 17.6 1.8 61.8 5.1 39.6 50.4 57.5 7.3 23.9 17.1
Narsingdi 20.4 2.3 76.7 5.1 12.0 28.0 52.6 12.6 24.6 17.7
Natore 19.6 2.3 70.2 6.3 8.6 12.9 79.0 14.9 23.8 18.5
Nawabganj 22.9 2.6 83.7 7.0 52.4 52.4 60.0 12.4 24.2 17.0
Netrakona 16.6 2.0 65.5 5.6 29.7 38.1 68.2 9.4 25.9 18.9
Nilphamari 20.2 2.3 75.7 5.5 19.8 23.1 77.6 11.8 23.9 18.4
Noakhali 25.9 2.9 99.8 5.4 28.6 38.2 55.1 1.5 24.7 17.8
Pabna 16.1 1.9 60.3 4.4 13.4 26.8 67.1 9.3 24.4 17.8
Panchagarh 21.2 2.4 79.2 5.0 59.5 71.4 60.0 10.3 22.1 18.3
Patuakhali 18.7 2.2 72.6 7.7 28.1 42.1 77.6 5.6 23.9 17.3
Pirojpur 18.9 2.2 71.4 9.6 70.3 78.1 66.7 7.6 25.7 18.2
Rajshahi 16.4 1.8 55.7 5.0 26.9 30.7 73.2 10.8 24.7 19.1
Rajbari 18.7 2.1 69.8 4.1 7.8 7.8 73.2 10.2 24.7 18.0
Rangamati 13.7 1.6 50.6 6.3 87.5 87.5 70.6 15.9 23.8 20.4
Rangpur 19.2 2.1 68.1 5.7 19.0 25.6 82.6 12.7 25.8 19.2
Shariatpur 23.3 2.8 92.3 6.6 5.7 11.5 64.7 10.3 24.7 17.5
Satkhira 19.8 2.2 72.3 3.7 13.5 13.5 74.4 13.4 24.5 18.2
Sirajganj 20.5 2.6 80.3 5.2 27.0 31.1 72.1 11.2 23.6 17.5
Sherpur 19.5 2.5 79.5 4.3 36.0 36.0 68.9 11.1 26.1 17.3
Sunamganj 21.9 2.6 86.9 4.4 34.1 40.1 51.8 10.3 25.9 19.9
Sylhet 18.1 1.9 65.0 4.3 13.6 21.2 54.8 7.9 27.8 21.6
Tangail 20.0 2.4 75.9 4.9 20.0 29.0 68.9 10.1 24.7 17.4
Thakurgaon 20.3 2.2 74.4 5.2 33.7 33.7 72.5 9.5 23.5 18.2
Total 18.5 2.0 67.7 5.1 24.0 30.8 62.5 8.9 25.1 18.5

Supplementary Tables
Table 2A. Population in SVRS area, SVRS 2017

Age group Male Female Both sex
Male Female Both sex
% % %
0-4 53,361 52,813 106,174 8.5 8.4 8.5
5-9 61,893 61,708 123,601 9.9 9.9 9.9
10-14 69,426 68,214 137,640 11.1 10.9 11.0
15-19 67,434 56,917 124,351 10.8 9.1 9.9
20-24 50,508 59,571 110,079 8.1 9.5 8.8
25-29 50,165 59,394 109,559 8.0 9.5 8.7
30-34 48,211 53,218 101,429 7.7 8.5 8.1
35-39 46,233 46,431 92,664 7.4 7.4 7.4
40-44 39,758 37,064 76,822 6.3 5.9 6.1
45-49 36,709 30,197 66,906 5.9 4.8 5.3
50-54 29,442 30,512 59,954 4.7 4.9 4.8
55-59 22,291 21,165 43,456 3.6 3.4 3.5
60-64 18,748 17,227 35,975 3.0 2.8 2.9
65+ 32,889 31,082 63,971 5.2 5.0 5.1
Total 627,068 625,513 1,252,581 100.0 100.0 100.0
Table 2B: Distribution of out- migrants by age and causes of migration for males, SVRS
2017
Age group Causes of out-migration
Marriage Education Looking Getting Transfer Floating/ Earning Living Business Retirement Abroad Other Total
for Job Job river fall with
family
0-4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 87.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.5 100.0
5-14 0.3 5.1 1.3 0.7 2.4 2.4 5.5 67.9 1.4 0.2 0.5 12.3 100.0
15-24 4.2 7.6 7.1 3.5 2.8 2.1 19.9 35.3 2.3 0.4 5.6 9.3 100.0
25-34 8.7 1.6 9.1 6.2 8.3 1.5 24.4 18.7 5.0 0.2 4.7 11.5 100.0
35-44 0.6 1.7 7.2 4.0 10.1 2.0 23.7 15.3 6.6 0.4 3.3 25.1 100.0
45-54 0.5 2.0 5.4 3.1 11.0 2.5 20.7 15.4 7.7 0.8 2.6 28.3 100.0
55-64 0.6 2.0 4.3 1.7 7.5 3.6 19.8 20.7 7.8 3.2 1.3 27.4 100.0
65+ 0.5 1.3 2.6 1.3 6.8 7.0 15.4 31.1 5.3 2.1 1.1 25.6 100.0
Total 2.9 3.3 5.4 3.1 5.6 2.0 16.5 38.4 3.8 0.4 3.0 15.6 100.0

Table 2C: Distribution of out- migrants by causes of migration and age for females, SVRS
2017
Causes of out-migration
Age group Marriage Education Looking Getting Transfer Floating/river Earning Living with Business Retirement Abroad Other Total
for Job Job fall family
0-4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 87.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.8 100.0
5-14 9.1 4.3 1.2 0.5 1.7 2.4 4.4 62.3 1.4 0.3 0.5 11.9 100.0
15-24 39.2 3.2 2.6 1.4 2.0 1.0 5.3 37.0 0.9 0.5 0.8 6.1 100.0
25-34 7.3 2.0 3.8 2.6 4.8 1.3 9.4 52.2 1.5 0.3 0.7 14.0 100.0
35-44 0.9 2.3 3.2 1.9 4.5 2.6 10.9 53.3 1.9 0.1 1.0 17.6 100.0
45-54 1.0 2.1 2.4 1.2 3.4 3.4 9.9 52.8 2.6 1.2 0.6 19.4 100.0
55-64 0.9 1.4 1.7 1.1 3.7 5.5 7.5 56.1 1.9 0.3 1.3 18.6 100.0
65+ 0.5 1.0 1.3 0.9 1.6 6.4 5.5 64.1 1.6 0.6 0.5 16.0 100.0
Total 16.9 2.7 2.4 1.4 2.7 1.7 6.3 52.1 1.3 0.4 0.7 11.5 100.0
Table 2D: Distribution of out-migrants by causes of migration and age for both sexes,
SVRS 2017
Causes of out-migration
0-4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 87.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.7 100.0
5-14 4.8 4.7 1.2 0.6 2.0 2.4 4.9 65.0 1.4 0.3 0.5 12.1 100.0
15-24 28.0 4.6 4.1 2.1 2.2 1.3 10.0 36.5 1.4 0.4 2.3 7.1 100.0
25-34 8.0 1.8 6.4 4.4 6.5 1.4 16.7 35.9 3.2 0.3 2.7 12.8 100.0
35-44 0.7 1.9 5.6 3.2 7.8 2.2 18.5 30.8 4.7 0.3 2.3 22.0 100.0
45-54 0.7 2.0 4.1 2.3 7.7 2.9 16.0 31.7 5.5 1.0 1.7 24.4 100.0
55-64 0.8 1.7 3.2 1.4 5.9 4.4 14.5 35.9 5.3 2.0 1.3 23.7 100.0
65+ 0.5 1.1 2.0 1.1 4.3 6.7 10.7 46.9 3.5 1.4 0.8 21.0 100.0
Total 10.4 3.0 3.8 2.2 4.0 1.8 11.1 45.7 2.4 0.4 1.7 13.4 100.0
Table 2E: Distribution of in- migrants by causes of migration and age for males, SVRS
2017
Causes of in-migration
Age group Marriage Education Looking Getting Transfer Floating/river Earning Living Business Retirement Abroad Other Total
for Job Job fall with
family
0-4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 89.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.5 100.0
5-14 0.2 4.0 0.7 0.4 0.9 2.1 5.6 73.3 1.7 0.1 0.1 10.9 100.0
15-24 9.0 8.6 4.9 2.8 3.4 1.7 12.9 47.0 3.1 0.2 1.7 4.7 100.0
25-34 11.8 1.7 8.6 8.2 8.6 1.3 20.6 21.6 6.5 0.3 3.4 7.5 100.0
35-44 0.7 2.0 7.3 5.8 10.8 2.1 21.5 15.3 8.9 0.2 3.3 22.0 100.0
45-54 0.7 2.5 6.6 4.1 9.9 2.2 21.9 14.6 9.7 0.6 3.7 23.5 100.0
55-64 0.7 1.7 4.3 2.9 7.3 4.4 20.5 18.6 8.4 2.8 1.8 26.5 100.0
65+ 0.5 1.4 2.3 1.4 4.1 4.0 15.2 38.0 5.9 2.4 1.5 23.2 100.0
Total 4.3 3.1 4.7 3.7 5.5 1.8 14.0 42.9 4.9 0.4 2.0 12.7 100.0

Table 2F: Distribution of in- migrants by causes of migration and age for females, SVRS
2017
0-4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 88.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.3 100.0
5-14 3.7 3.9 0.9 0.4 0.9 2.0 6.5 69.8 1.6 0.1 0.1 10.1 100.0
15-24 42.4 3.8 3.1 1.8 2.0 0.8 4.6 38.9 1.1 0.1 0.1 1.3 100.0
25-34 5.5 1.9 4.6 3.3 4.2 1.1 8.1 56.3 2.0 0.1 0.2 12.7 100.0
35-44 1.9 3.0 4.3 2.6 3.7 2.1 10.8 54.6 2.5 0.1 0.4 14.3 100.0
45-54 1.9 2.0 2.3 1.3 4.3 2.7 10.2 58.2 2.3 0.3 0.4 14.0 100.0
55-64 0.8 0.8 2.3 2.0 3.2 2.3 8.5 63.0 2.3 0.4 0.1 14.4 100.0
65+ 0.4 1.1 0.9 0.5 1.7 2.1 4.7 76.6 0.4 0.6 0.4 10.7 100.0
Total 16.5 2.8 2.7 1.7 2.3 1.3 6.1 56.5 1.5 0.1 0.2 8.4 100.0
Table 2G: Distribution of in- migrants by causes of migration and age for both sexes, SVRS
2017
Age group Marriage Education Looking Getting Transfer Floating/river Earning Living Business Retirement Abroad Other Total
for Job Job fall with
family
0-4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 89.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.9 100.0
5-14 1.9 4.0 0.8 0.4 0.9 2.0 6.1 71.5 1.7 0.1 0.1 10.5 100.0
15-24 33.2 5.1 3.6 2.0 2.4 1.0 6.9 41.1 1.7 0.1 0.5 2.2 100.0
25-34 8.6 1.8 6.6 5.7 6.3 1.2 14.2 39.3 4.2 0.2 1.8 10.1 100.0
35-44 1.2 2.4 6.1 4.5 7.9 2.1 17.1 31.4 6.3 0.2 2.1 18.9 100.0
45-54 1.2 2.3 4.8 2.9 7.5 2.4 16.9 33.4 6.5 0.5 2.3 19.4 100.0
55-64 0.7 1.3 3.4 2.5 5.4 3.4 15.0 39.0 5.6 1.7 1.0 20.9 100.0
65+ 0.4 1.2 1.5 0.9 2.7 2.9 9.1 60.4 2.7 1.4 0.9 15.9 100.0
Total 10.9 2.9 3.6 2.6 3.8 1.5 9.7 50.3 3.0 0.2 1.0 10.4 100.0

Table 2H: Out- migration rates per 1000 population by sex and direction, SVRS 2017
Direction of out-migration Male Female Both sexes
Total out-migrants 69.0 79.5 74.3
Rural out-migrants 38.6 48.4 43.5
Rural to Rural 17.3 32.8 25.1
Rural to Urban 27.1 19.8 23.4
Urban out-migrants 107.6 118.9 113.3
Urban to Rural 13.8 18.6 16.2
Urban to Urban 90.1 95.3 92.7
Table 2I: Distribution of out-migrants by sex, causes and direction, SVRS 2017
Causes of out-migration Male Female Both sexes
Total out-migrants 100.0 100.0 100.0
Marriage 2.9 17.0 10.4
Education 3.5 2.8 3.1
Looking job 5.5 2.5 3.9
Getting job 3.2 1.4 2.3
Transfer 5.9 2.9 4.3
Float/River eroded 2.2 1.8 2.0
Earning 16.9 6.6 11.4
Living with family 37.1 51.1 44.6
Business 3.9 1.3 2.5
Retirement 0.4 0.4 0.4
Abroad 3.0 0.7 1.8
Other 15.6 11.5 13.4
Rural out-migrants
Marriage 1.6 32.1 18.5
Earning 27.1 9.8 17.5
Abroad 6.6 0.7 3.3
Other 8.1 7.0 7.5
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
Rural to Rural out-migrants
Marriage 2.0 41.8 28.0
Earning 16.0 4.9 8.7
Abroad 0.5 0.5 0.5
Other 14.2 8.6 10.6
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
Rural to Urban out-migrants
Marriage 1.3 11.6 5.6
Earning 36.2 20.2 29.4

Causes of out-migration Male Female Both sexes
Abroad 11.5 1.1 7.1
Other 3.1 3.6 3.3
Urban out-migrants
Marriage 3.6 9.2 6.5
Earning 12.2 5.0 8.4
Abroad 1.4 0.7 1.0
Other 19.0 13.8 16.3
Urban to Rural out-migrants
Marriage 2.3 15.9 10.1
Earning 11.9 4.6 7.7
Abroad 0.3 0.3 0.3
Other 11.2 9.1 10.0
Urban to Urban out-migrants
Earning 12.3 5.0 8.6
Abroad 1.6 0.8 1.2
Other 20.5 15.0 17.7

Table 2J: In-migration rates per 1000 population by sex and direction, SVRS 2017
Direction of in-migration Male Female Both sexes

Total In-migration 67.4 80.3 73.8
Rural in-migration 30.3 45.4 37.8
Rural to Rural 24.1 41.3 32.7
Urban to Rural 6.2 4.1 5.0
Urban in-migration 114.5 124.4 119.4
Rural to Urban 26.3 32.2 30.3
Urban to Urban 88.2 92.2 90.2
Table 2 K: Distribution of in-migrants by sex, causes and direction, SVRS 2017

Causes of in-migration Male Female Bothsexes
Total in-migrants: 100.0 100.0 100.0
Marriage 4.3 16.5 10.9
Earning 14.0 6.1 9.7
Abroad 2.0 0.2 1.0
Other 12.7 8.4 10.4
Rural in-migrants
Marriage 3.9 32.6 21.1
Earning 10.3 4.1 6.6
Abroad 5.9 0.3 2.5
Other 7.0 4.8 5.7
Rural to Rural in-migrants
Marriage 4.1 34.9 23.6
Earning 11.2 3.9 6.6
Abroad 1.3 0.1 0.6
Other 7.8 5.0 6.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
Urban to Rural in-migrants
Earning 6.9 6.2 6.6

Causes of in-migration Male Female Bothsexes
Abroad 23.5 2.1 15.0
Other 4.1 3.3 3.8
Urban in-migrants
Earning 15.2 7.1 11.0
Abroad 0.7 0.1 0.4
Other 14.7 10.1 12.3
Rural to urban in-migrants:
Marriage 2.2 12.9 8.1
Earning 22.1 10.8 15.9
Abroad 0.1 0.0 0.0
Other 5.7 4.5 5.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
Urban to urban in-migrants:
Earning 13.2 5.7 9.4
Abroad 0.8 0.1 0.5
Other 17.3 12.1 14.6

Annexure - 2
Operational Definitions of Indicators
(a) SOCIAL INDICATORS
Household
Household is defined as a unit consisting of group of persons, related or unrelated, live together and taking food from the
same kitchen.
Dependency Ratio
Dependency ratio is defined as the ratio of sum of population aged 0-14 years and 65+ years to the population aged 15-64
years expressed as percentage.
Sex Ratio
The ratio of males to females in a given population usually expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
Index of Ageing
Index of ageing is the ratio of older persons of age 60 years and above to the population of age 0-14 years expressed as
percentage.
Literacy
A person who is able to write a simple letter is defined as literate.
Literacy Rate (Age 7+yrs)
Percentage of population of age 7 years and over who can write a letter to the total population of the same age-group is the
literacy rate.
Adult Literacy (Age 15+ yrs)
Percentage of population of age 15 years and over who can write a letter to the total population of the same age-group is
the adult literacy rate.
Child- Woman Ratio (CWR)
The ratio of children under five (0-4) years old to women of ages 15-49 is called the child-women ratio.This is commonly
expressed per 1000 women.
Gross Enrolment Rate (GER)
GER is the relative number of boys and girls enrolled in the grade I to V in a year to the total population of the age-group
6-10 years expressed in percentage.
Net Enrolment Rate (NER)
NER is the percentage of boys and girls of age 6-10 years enrolled in grade 1-V to the total population of the same age-
group.
(b) FERTILITY RELATED INDICATORS
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
The ratio of livebirths in a specified period (usually one calendar year) to the average population in that period (normally
taken to be the mid year population). The value is conventionally expressed per 1000 population.
General Fertility Rate (GFR)
The ratio of number of live births in a specified period to the average number of women of child bearing age in the
population during the period.
Age-Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR)
Number of live births occurring to women of a particular age or age group normally expressed per 1000 women in the
same age- group in a given year. It is usually calculated for 5 years age groups from 15-19 to 40-44 or 15-19 to 45-49.
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
The sum of the age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) over the whole range of reproductive ages for a particular period
(usually a year).It can be interpreted as the number of children; a woman would have during her lifetime if she were to
experience the fertility rates of period at each age and no mortality till they reach to their reproductive period. .

Gross Reproduction Rate (GRR)
The average number of daughters that would be born to a woman during her lifetime if she would passed through the
childbearing ages experiencing the average age-specific fertility pattern of a given year. and no mortality till they reach to
their reproductive period.
Net Reproduction Rate (NRR)
The average number of daughters that would be born to a woman if she passed through her lifetime from birth confirm to
the age specific fertility rates of a given year. This rate is similar to the gross reproduction rate and takes into account that
some women will die before completing their childbearing years. NRR means each generation of mothers is having
exactly enough daughters to replace itself in the population.
(c) MORTALITYRELATED INDICATORS
Crude Death Rate (CDR)
The crude death rate (CDR) is the number of deaths per 1000 mid-year population in a given year.
Child Death Rate (ChDR)
Child death rates is defined as the number of deaths among children in age 1-4 per 1000 mid-year population in the same
age group.
Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR)
The under-five mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths to children under five year of age per 1000 live births in a
given year.
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
The number of deaths occurring during a given year among the live-born infants who have not reached their first birthday,
divided by the number of live births in the given year and usually expressed per 1000 live births.
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (NMR)
The neo-natal mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths of infants under one month of age during a year per 1000
live births in that year.
Post-Neo-natal Mortality Rate (PNMR)
The post-Neo-natal mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths of infants of age 1 month through 11 months per
1000 live births in that year.
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)
The maternal mortality ratio is defined as the number of total deaths of women due to complications of pregnancy, child
birth and puerperal causes per 1000 live births during a year.
Life Expectancy (ex)
Expectation of life is the average longevity of an individual or the average number of years of life remaining at
specified age x. Expectation of life at birth (eo) is the average number of years of life remaining at beginning, i.e. ‗0‘
year of age.
Natural growth rate (NGR)
The natural growth rate is the difference between crude birth rate (CBR) and crude death rate (CDR) expressed in
percentage.
(d) NUPTIALITY RELATED INDICATORS
Crude Marriage Rate (CMR)
Crude Marriage Rate is defined as the number of marriages solemnized per thousand mid year population irrespective of
their marital status.
General Marriage Rate (GMR)
GMR is the relative number of marriage of population aged 15+ years per 1000 population of the same group.
Age-Specific Marriage Rate (ASMR)
ASMR is defined as the relative number of marriage per 1000 population of specific age group
Singulate Mean Age at Marriage (SMAM)
SMAM is defined as an estimate of the mean number of years lived by cohort of women before their first marriage. This is
an indirect method of estimation of the mean age at first marriage.
Crude Divorce Rate (CDiR)
Crude Divorce Rate is a relative number of divorces per 1000 population.
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General Divorce Rate (GDR)
General Divorce Rate is a relative number of divorces of population of age 15+ years per 1000 population of the same age
group.
Crude Separation Rate (CSR)
Crude separation rate is a relative number of separations per 1000 population.
General Separation Rate (GSR)
Relative number of separations of persons of age 15+ years to total population of the same age-group.
(e) MIGRATION RELATED INDICATORS
Migration Rate (MR)
The in and out migration rate is defined as the number of in or out migration per 1000 mid-year population of a particular
area for a specified time interval.
Internal Migration (IM)
Migration that takes place within the country.
Rural to Rural Migration
Migration that takes place from rural to rural areas of Bangladesh.
Rural to Urban Migration
Migration that takes place from rural to urban areas of Bangladesh.
Urban to Rural Migration
Migration that takes place from urban to rural areas.
Urban to Urban Migration
Migration that takes place firm urban to urban area.
(f) DISABILITY RELATED INDICATORS
Crude Disability Rate
Crude disability rate is defined as the number of disabled persons per1000 population.‗
(g) CONTRACEPTIVE USE RELATED INDICATORS
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR): CPR is defined as the percentage of couple currently practicing any contraceptive
method to number of currently married women of reproductive age.
(h) DATA QUALITY RELATED INDICATORS
Whiple’s Index: The Whiple‘s index is a simple, robust and easy to interpret index to measure age
heaping. As per definition the Whiple‘s Index is the ratio of the observed frequency of ages ending in 0 or
5 to the frequecny predicted by assuming a uniform distribution of terminal digits.
Myer’s Blended Index: Myer‘s Blended Index is calculated for the age above 10 years and shows the
excess or deficit of people in ages ending in any of the 10 terminal digits expressed as percentages. It is
based on the assumption that the population is equally distributed among the different ages.
UN Age-Sex Accuracy Index/Un Joint Score Index: UN Age-sex accuracy index is a measure of the
quality of age data presented in 5-year age groups by sex. The index in based on the age rates and sex
ratios and is computed as 3(mean of the differences in sex ratios) + mean of the differences in age ratios
for males + mean of the differences in age ratios for females
The quality of data is ranked as accurate of the index is below 20, inaccurate of it is between 20 & 40 &
highly inaccurate if it is over 40.
(j) Zila: District.

Annexure - 3
Composition of Steering Committee
01 Secretary, Statistics and informatics Division, Ministry of Planning Chairperson
02 Director General, BBS Member

03 Representative, Ministry of Public Administration{ (not below the Joint Secretary(JS)} Member
04 Representative, Finance Division, Ministry of Finance (not below the JS) Member
05 Representative, LG Division, Ministry of LGRD (not below the Joint Secretary) Member
06 Representative, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (not below the Joint Secretary) Member
07 Representative, Ministry of Information (not below the Joint Secretary) Member
08 Representative, Information & Communication Technology Division (not below the Joint Member
Secretary)
09 Representative, Ministry of Women & Children Affairs (not below the JS) Member
10 Joint Secretary (Development), Statistics and Informatics Division Member
11 Director General, IMED Member
12 Deputy Director General, BBS Member
13 Director General, NIPORT Member
14 Joint Chief, Population Planning Wing, Planning Commission Member
15 Joint Chief, Programming Division, Planning Commission Member
16 Joint Chief, GED, Planning Commission Member
17 Project Director, A2i Program, Prime Minister‘s Office Member
18 Director, Demography and Health Wing, BBS Member
19 Director, Census Wing, BBS Member
20 Project Director, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS Member
21 Deputy Secretary (Development), Statistics and Informatics Division Member
Secretary
Terms of reference:
1. Policy decision in connection with MSVSB activities.
2. Coordination of MSVSB activities with concerned Ministries.
3. Assessment of data needs by different Ministries, Government, Semi-Government organization and
Autonomous bodies.
4. Administrative and Financial support in implementing the Project activities.
5. They may Co-opt additional members when needed.
6. Miscellaneous.

Annexure - 4
Composition of Technical Committee
01 Director General, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Chairperson
02 Prof. Dr. M. Nurul Islam, Department of Statistics, Biostatistics and Informatics, DU Co-Chairperson
Ex-VC, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University(MBSTU), Tangail
03 Joint Secretary (Development), Statistics and Informatics Division Member
04 Deputy Director General, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Member
05 Representative, Applied Statistics Department, University of Dhaka Member
06 Representative, Department of Gender Statistics, University of Dhaka Member
07 Deputy Secretary (Development), Statistics and Informatics Division Member
08 Representative, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Member
(not below DS)
09 Director (Research), NIPORT Member
10 Director (MIS), DG Health, Mohakhali, Dhaka Member
11 Representative, Population Planning Wing, Planning Commission Member
12 Representative, GED, Planning Commission Member
13 Representative, Programming Division, Planning Commission Member
14 Representative, IMED, Ministry of Planning Member
15 Director (Demography), ICDDR‘B Member
16 Director, Demography and Health Wing, BBS Member
17 Project Director, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS Member Secretary
The terms of reference of the committee are as follows:

(1) To review the technical activities and progress of the wing and guide for undertaking future survey
activities;
(2) To identify the data gaps in the areas of population, health and demography and suggest ways and means
for the improvement of data collection, compilation and dissemination systems;
(3) To provide technical backstopping for conducting health survey including HIV/AIDS and health
expenditure, nutrition, demography and population composition related surveys between the census years to
meet the annual data needs;
(4) To suggest techniques for improvement of migration and urbanization related data and development of
MNSDS (Minimum National and Social Data Set) and indicators of MDGs;
(5) To suggest suitable studies/investigations in the field of fertility, mortality, morbidity nutrition to
complement the census results;
(6) To undertake critical studies of different approaches to population projection and recommend method
suitable for the country;
(7) To recommend improvement of urbanization, migration statistics and other social statistics; and
(8) Any other tasks assigned by the NSC from time to time.

Annexure – 5
Survey Team
Consultant:
Prof. Dr. M. Nurul Islam
Former Professor, Department of Statistics, Biostatistics and Informatics, DU
Ex-VC, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University(MBSTU), Tangail
01. Data Capturing, Processing and Analysis
1.Mr. A K M Ashraful Haque, Project Director, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
2.Mr. Md. Abul kasem, Programmer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
3.Mr. Monir Ahmed, Statistical Officer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
4.Mr. Shahidul Islam Khan, Statistical Officer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
5.Mr. S M Anwar Husain, Asstt. Programmer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
02. Report Preparation
1.Mr. A K M Ashraful Haque, Project Director, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
2.Mr. Md. Abul kasem, Programmer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
3.Mr. Shahidul Islam Khan, Statistical Officer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
4.Mr. Monir Ahmed, Statistical Officer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
5.Mr. S M Anwar Husain, Asstt. Programmer, MSVSB 2nd Phase Project, BBS
03. Project Personnel

1. Mr. Jashim Uddin Chowdhury, Administrative Officer
2. Mr. Sunil Kumar Biswas, SI
3. Ms. Supti Das, SI
4. Mr. Md. Enamul Haque, ECA
5. Ms. Sheuly Akter, DE/CO
6. Mr. Md. Sirajul Islam, Computer Operator
7. Mr.Md. Abu Taleb Miah, DEO
8. Mr. Md. Mokarram Hossain, DEO
9. Ms. Begam Shamima Akter, DEO
10. Mr. Md. Mostafa Kamal Masum, DEO
11. Mr. Md. Serajul Islam, Computer Operator
Team Leader
A K M Ashraful Haque
Project Director
MSVSB 2nd Phase Project
e mail: ahaque_62@yahoo.com
Phone: 02-9137338

জগা঩নী৞
খানা তাররকা
Annexure - 6 তপর঳র-১
Schedules
গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঳যকায
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ (MSVSB) প্রকে
঩রয঳াংখ্যান বফন
ই-২৭/এ, আগাযগাঁ঑, ঢাকা -১২০৭।
খানা তাররকা প্রণ৞ন তপর঳র
নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ

রজ঑ জকাড
PSU নাং ............................................................................................................
জজরা ............................................................................................................
উ঩দজরা/থানা ............................................................................................................
ইউরন৞ন/঑৞াড ভ ............................................................................................................
জভৌজা/ভ঴ল্লা ............................................................................................................
RMO ............................................................................................................
স্থানী৞ জযরজস্ট্রাদযয ঩রযরচরতিঃ

নাভ : .............................................................................................................................................
র঩তায/স্বাভীয : .............................................................................................................................................
নাভ
ভাতায নাভ : .............................................................................................................................................
গ্রাভ/ভ঴ল্লা/ : .............................................................................................................................................
ডাকঘয : .............................................................................................................................................
উ঩দজরা/ : .............................................................................................................................................
জযরজ :
খানায নম্বয
জভাফাইর নাং : ..................................................................................................

খানা তাররকা প্রণ৞ন তপর঳র
নমুনা এরাকায জভৌজা/ভ঴ল্লা/ নাভ ............................................. উ঩দজরা/ ...............................................

নমুনা এরাকায রনকটতভ জযর঑দ৞ ঱ন/রঞ্চ ঘাট/স্ট্ীভায ঘাট/ফা঳ ঱দনয নাভ ................................................ নমুনা
এরাকা ঴দত দূযত্ব ............................. (রকিঃ রভিঃ)
নমুনা এরাকা৞ মাতা৞াদতয উ঩া৞ (উ঩দজরা/থানা ঴দত নমুনা এরাকা)
.................................................................................................................................................................................
.............................................................................................................................................................
১। ফাৎ঳রযক ঳াম্প্ররতকৃত ০১ জানু৞ারযয খানা ঑ জন঳াংখ্যািঃ

ফৎ঳য 2016 2017
খানায ঳াংখ্যা
পুরুল
জন঳াংখ্যা ভর঴রা
঳ফ ভদভাট
নাভ, স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ
সু঩াযবাইজাদযয নাভ, স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ
২। বত্রভার঳ক ঳াম্প্ররতকৃত খানা ঑ জন঳াংখ্যািঃ

2017
বত্রভার঳ক খানার সংখ্যা জন঳াংখ্যা
পুরুল ভর঴রা জভাট
জানু৞ারয-ভাচ ভিঃ ১ভ (৩১ ভাদচ ভয জন঳াংখ্যা)
এরপ্রর-জুনিঃ ২৞ (৩০ জুদনয জন঳াংখ্যা)
জুরাই-জ঳দন্ফম্বযিঃ ৩৞ (৩০ জ঳দন্ফম্বদযয জন঳াংখ্যা)
অদটাফয-রডদ঳ম্বযিঃ ৪থ ভ (৩১ রডদ঳ম্বদযয জন঳াংখ্যা)
৩। সু঩াযবাইজাদযয নাভ, স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখিঃ

বত্রভার঳ক 2017
নাভ ঑ ঩দফী স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ
জানু৞ারয-ভাচ ভিঃ ১ভ
এরপ্রর-জুনিঃ ২৞
জুরাই-জ঳দন্ফম্বযিঃ ৩৞
অদটাফয-রডদ঳ম্বযিঃ ৪থ ভ

খানা ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য
খানা প্রধাদনয তথ্য
গৃ঴/ ররাংগ অথনভ নরতক
জ঴ারডাং খানায পুিঃ-1 রক কাজ খানায ভার঳ক খানায ভার঳ক ভন্তব্য
খানা প্রধাদনয নাভ র঩তা/স্বাভীয নাভ ফ৞঳
নম্বয নম্বয ভিঃ-2 কদযন ব্য৞ (টাকা৞) (টাকা৞)
-3 (দকাড)

খানার জনসংখযা সংক্রান্ত তথ্য
2017 ভন্তব্য
0 1 2 3 4
পুিঃ ভিঃ পুিঃ ভিঃ পুিঃ ভিঃ পুিঃ ভিঃ পুিঃ ভিঃ
- , - , - ।
0 = ১ জানু৞ারযয জন঳াংখ্যা 1 = জানু৞ারয-ভাচ ভ 2 = এরপ্রর-জুন 3 = জুরাই-জ঳দন্ফম্বয 4 = অদটাফয-রডদ঳ম্বয
(৩১ ভাদচ ভয জন঳াংখ্যা) (৩০ জুদনয জন঳াংখ্যা) (৩০ জ঳দন্ফম্বদযয (৩১ রডদ঳ম্বদযয
জন঳াংখ্যা) জন঳াংখ্যা)

নমুনা এরাকায খানায হ্রা঳/বৃরিয তাররকা
ফৎ঳য বত্রভার঳ক বৃরিপ্রাপ্ত খানায নম্বয঳মূ঴ হ্রা঳প্রাপ্ত খানায নম্বয঳মূ঴
জানু৞ারয ঴দত ভাচ ভ
১৮ জ঩ৌল ঴দত ১৭ বচত্র
এরপ্রর ঴দত জুন

১৮ বচত্র ঴দত ১৬ আলাঢ়
2
0
1 জুরাই ঴দত জ঳দন্ফম্বয
7 ১৭ আলাঢ় ঴দত ১৫ আরিন
অদটাফয ঴দত রডদ঳ম্বয

১৬ আরিন ঴দত ১৭ জ঩ৌল


2
0



2
0


নমুনা এরাকায জেচ ম্যা঩
(প্রথদভ অ্ কাগদজ বারবাদফ জেচ ম্যা঩ কযায ঩য এখাদন প্রস্তুত করুন)
উিয
নমুনা এরাকায নাভিঃ
঩রিভ পূফ ভ
ঠিকানািঃ
দরক্ষণ
ম্যা঩ প্রস্তুতকাযীয নাভ ঑ ঩দফী .............................................স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ .........................................

বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্-এ ব্যফহৃত জকাদডয তাররকা
১। অথ ভননরতক কাম ভাফরীিঃ ৩। খানা ঳দস্য/ ঳দস্যদদয বফফার঴ক ৬। প্র঳ফকারীন ঳া঴ায্যকাযীিঃ
অথ ভননরতক কাম ভাফরী জকাড অফস্থািঃ ) শ t জকাড
জরভয ভাররক 01 বফফার঴ক অফস্থা জকাড / 5
ভাররক কৃলক 02 অরফফার঴ত 1 QUACK/ 6
঩ারযফারযক কৃরল কভী 03 রফফার঴ত 2
শ 7
চুরিফি কৃরল কভী 04 রফধফা/ রফ঩ত্নীক 3
9
রনজ জরভ঳঴ ফগাভ কৃলক 05 তারাকপ্রাপ্ত/ রফরিন্ন 4 ৭। ধভভ ঳াংক্রান্তিঃ
ভূরভ঴ীন কৃরল শ্ররভক 06 পৃথক ফ঳ফা঳ 5 ধভভ জকাড
অ্া্ কৃরল শ্ররভক 07 ৪। র঱ক্ষায স্তয঳মূ঴িঃ ই঳রাভ 01
অ্া্ অকৃরল শ্ররভক 08 র঱ক্ষায স্তয঳মূ঴ জকাড র঴ন্দু 02
ভৎস্য চালী 09 ১ভ জশ্রণী উিীণ ভ ঴৞রন 00 জফৌি 03
জজদর 10 ১ভ জশ্রণী উিীণ ভ 01 খ্রীষ্টান 04
জ঩঱াজীরফ কভভকতভা 11 ২৞ জশ্রণী উিীণ ভ 02 অ্া্ ধভভাফরম্বী 09
রনফ ভা঴ী কভভকতভা 12 ৩৞ জশ্রণী ,, 03
জ঩঱াগত কভভচাযী 13 ৪থ ভ জশ্রণী উিীণ ভ 04 ৮। মৃত্যুয কাযণ঳মূ঴িঃ
অ্া্ অরপ঳ কভভচাযী 14 ৫ভ জশ্রণী ,, 05 মৃত্যুয কাযণ঳মূ঴
কাযখানা/উৎ঩াদন শ্ররভক 15 ৬ষ্ঠ জশ্রণী ,, 06 গুটি ফ঳ন্ত 01
র঱ক্ষক 16 ৭ভ জশ্রণী ,, 07 02
ব্যফ঳া৞ী 17 ৮ভ জশ্রণী ,, 08 ম্যাদররয৞া 03
঩রযফ঴ন/দমাগাদমাগ শ্ররভক 18 ৯ভ জশ্রণী ,, 09 টাইপদ৞ড/প্যাযা টাইপদ৞ড 04
তাঁতী 19 ভােরভক ফা ঳ভত্যল্য 10 ইনফ্লুদ৞িা 05
কাভায 20 উচ্চ ভােরভক ফা ঳ভত্যল্য 11 জডঙ্গু 06
কুভায 21 স্দাতক ফা ঳ভত্যল্য 12 অ্া্ জ্বয 07
স্বণ ভকায 22 স্দাতদকািয ফা ঳ভত্যল্য 13 জরি঳ 08
জ঳ফামুরক কাদজয ঳াদথ 23 ডািায/ইরিরন৞ায/কৃরলরফদ 14 09
঳ম্পৃি ব্যরি রডদলাভা 15 কদরযা 10
ছাত্র/ছাত্রী 24 জবাদক঱নার 16 জটির ডা৞রয৞া 11
গৃ঴স্থারী 25 অ্া্ 99 দীঘ ভস্থা৞ী ডা৞রয৞া 12
চাকয/চাকযানী 26 ৫। জন্঩/মৃত্যুয স্থান঳মূ঴িঃ জটির আভা঱৞ 13
গৃ঴কদভভ ঳া঴ায্যকাযী 27 জন্঩/মৃত্যুয স্থান জকাড দীঘ ভস্থা৞ী আভা঱৞ 14
কাজ খজদছনুঁ 28 নমুনা এরাকায নমুনা খানাদত 1 যি আভা঱৞ 15
কাজ কযদত অক্ষভ 29 নমুনা এরাকায অ্ খানাদত 2 মক্ষা 16
রবক্ষুক 30 অ্ এরাকায খানাদত 3 ঴াঁ঩ানী 17
অ্া্ (উদল্লখ করুন) 99 ঴া঳঩াতার 4 িা঳দযাগ 18
২। খানা প্রধাদনয ঳াদথ খানায রিরনক 5 রনউদভারন৞া 19
঳দস্যদদয ঳ম্পকভিঃ ভার্ত঳দন 6 হুর঩াং কপ 20
খানা প্রধাদনয ঳াদথ ঳ম্পকভ জকাড অ্া্ 9 উচ্চ যিচা঩ 21
খানা প্রধান স্ব৞াং 1 হৃদদযাগ 22
স্বাভী/স্ত্রী 2 ৬। প্র঳ফকারীন ঳া঴ায্যকাযীিঃ হৃদমদন্ত্রয রক্র৞া ফন্ধ/঴াট ভ জষ্ট্রাক 23
঳ন্তান 3 ক) প্রর঱ক্ষণ প্রাপ্ত t জকাড ফহুমূত্র (ডা৞দফটি঳) 24
র঩তা/ভাতা/িশুয/িাশুড়ী 4 ডািায 1 র঩ি জযাগ 25
অ্া্ (আত্মী৞) 8 ( / )/ 2 ফাত জযাগ 26
( ) 9 ফাত জ্বয 27
শ (FWV)
঩ক্ষাঘাত 28
(MA)/ - 3
রড঩দথরয৞া 29
(SACMO) জ঩঩টিক আর঳ায 30
(HA)/ 4 জভরননজাইটি঳ 31
(FWA) অপুরষ্টজরনত ব্যারধ 32

৮। মৃত্যুয কাযণ঳মূ঴িঃ ৯। তারাক/পৃথক ফ঳ফাদ঳য ভ
১১। আগভন/ফর঴গভদনয জজরা঳মূ঴িঃ
টিউভায 33 কাযণ঳মূ঴িঃ ঩াফনা 16
কুান঳ায 34 দুযাদযাগ্য ব্যারধ 04 কুরষ্ট৞া 17
চভভদযাগ 35 প্রাপ্ত ফ৞঳ না ঴঑৞ায আদগ 05 চু৞াডাাংগা 18
কুষ্ঠ 36 রফফা঴ ঴঑৞া জভদ঴যপুয 19
জটির গবভাফস্থা/ রফর্তষ্ণা 37 রনরুদে঱ ঴঑৞া 06 রঝনাইদ঴ 20
/ক্ষুধাভন্দা/ ঩াদ৞ ঩ারন নাভা/ কাযাদি 07 ভাগুড়া 21
পৄদর মা঑৞া ঱াযীরযক রনম ভাতন 08 নড়াইর 22
জটিরতায ঳াদথ ঳ন্তান প্র঳ফ/ 38 দুিরযত্র 09 মদ঱ায 23
গবভ পৄর আটদক মা঑৞া / জমৌত্যক 10 ঳াতক্ষীযা 24
প্র঳ফকাদর প্রচি ব্যথা, পুনিঃ রফফা঴ 11 খরনা 25
জযায়ুয রফচুুরত ঴঑৞া/ রিঁদড় ঳ন্তান না ঴঑৞া 12 ফাদগয঴াট 26
মা঑৞া। অ্া্ 99 ফযগুনা 27
প্র঳দফয ঩য যিক্ষযণ (PPH) 39
১০। আগভন/ ফর঴গভদনয ভ কাযণ ঩টু৞াখারী 28
জটিরতায ঳াদথ 40 ঳ম্পরকভতিঃ জবারা 29
গবভ঩াত/ জটির গবভ঩াত আগভন/ ফর঴গভদনয ভ কাযণ জকাড ফরয঱ার 30
গবভাফস্থা৞ যি঩াত (APH) 41 ঝারকাঠি
রফফাদ঴য কাযদণ 01 31
সূরতকা 42
জরখা঩ড়ায জ্ র঩দযাজপুয 32
02
ধনুষ্টাংকায 43
চাকুযীয উদেশ্য ঱রয৞তপুয 33
03
জ঩ারর঑ 44
চাকুযী জ঩দ৞ ভাদাযীপুয 34
04
আত্ম঴তুা 45
ফদরীজরনত কাযদণ জগা঩ারগি 35
05
খন 46 পরযদপুয
রছন্নমূর/নদীবাঙ্গা 06 36
পুদড় মা঑৞া 47 জযাজগাদযয জ্ যাজফাড়ী 37
07
঳াদ঩ কাটা 48 ভারনকগি
স্বাভী/স্ত্রী/র঩তাভাতা/আত্মীদ৞য 08 38
রফলরক্র৞া 49 রনকট ফ঳ফাদ঳য জ্ ঢাকা 39
঩ারনদত ডুদফ মৃত্যু 50 ব্যফ঳ায উদেদশ্য গাজীপুয 40
09
অ্া্ দুঘ ভটনা 51 নাযা৞নগি
চাকুযী ঴দত অফ঳যজরনত 10 41
ভানর঳ক জযাগ 52 মুরন্পগি
কাযদণ 42
ভাদকা঱ি 53 নযর঳াংদী 43
রফদদ঱ জপযত 11
জরাতঙ্ক 54 টাাংগাইর 44
অ্া্ 12
ফাধ ভকুজরনত জটিরতা 55 জাভারপুয 45
কৃরভ ঳াংক্রান্ত জযাগ 56 জ঱যপুয 46
ভ
১১। আগভন/ফর঴গভদনয জজরা঳মূ঴িঃ
নাক, কান ঑ গরা ঳াংক্রান্ত 57 ভ৞ভনর঳াং঴ 47
জযাগ জজরায নাভ জকাড
একই জজরা৞ রকদ঱াযগি 48
ভরস্তদে যিক্ষযণ 58 99
঩ঞ্চগড় জনত্রদকানা 49
জমৌন জযাগ 59 01
ঠাকুযগাঁ঑ সুনাভগি 50
এইচআইরব/এইড঳ 60 02
রদনাজপুয র঳দরট 51
পৄ঳পৄদ঳ ঩ারন জভা 61 03
নীরপাভাযী জভৌরবীফাজায 52
এুাদ঩রি঳াইটি঳ 62 04
রারভরনয঴াট ঴রফগি 53
মৃগী 63 05
যাংপুয ব্রাক্ষণফাড়ী৞া 54
রকডনী ঳ভস্যা 64 06
কুরড়গ্রাভ কুরভল্লা 55
অ্া্ (উদল্লখ করুন) 99 07
গাইফান্ধা চাঁদপুয 56
08
ফগুড়া রক্ষীপুয 57
৯। তারাক/পৃথক ফ঳ফাদ঳য 09
জ৞পুয঴াট জনা৞াখারী 58
কাযণ঳মূ঴িঃ 10
ন঑গাঁ জপনী 59
কাযণ঳মূ঴ জকাড 11
চাঁ঩াইনফাফগি চট্রগ্রাভ 60
বযণ জ঩ালণদাদন ব্যথ ভতা 01 12
যাজ঱া঴ী ভ঴ানগযী কক্সফাজায 61
দাম্পতু জীফন ঩ারদন ব্যথ ভতা 02 13
নাদটায ফান্দযফান 62
পুরুলত্ব঴ীনতা 03 14
র঳যাজগি যাাংগাভাটি 63
15

ভ
১১। আগভন/ফর঴গভদনয জজরা঳মূ঴িঃ ভ
১২ । আগভন/ ফর঴গভদনয জদ঱঳মূ঴িঃ ১২ । আগভন/ ফর঴গভদনয ভ জদ঱঳মূ঴িঃ
খাগড়াছরড় 64 ইযান 08 অ্া্ ইউদযা঩ী৞ান 19
কুদ৞ত 09 জদ঱঳মূ঴
ভ
১২ । আগভন/ ফর঴গভদনয জদ঱঳মূ঴িঃ অ্া্ ভেপ্রাদচুয জদ঱঳মূ঴ 10 ভারকভন মৄিযাষ্ট্র 20
জদদ঱য নাভ জকাড জা঩ান 11 কানাডা 21
বাযত 01 জকারয৞া 12 অ্া্ আদভরযকান 22
঩ারকস্তান 02 র঳াংগাপুয 13 জদ঱঳মূ঴
জন঩ার 03 ভারদ৞র঱৞া 14 অদষ্ট্ররর৞া 23
শ্রীরাংকা 04 অ্া্ এর঱৞ান জদ঱঳মূ঴ 15 রররফ৞া 24
ভূটান 05 জগ্রট বৃদটন 16 রভ঱য 25
জ঳ৌরদ আযফ 06 জাভভানী 17 অ্া্ আরিকান জদ঱঳মূ঴ 26
ইযাক 07 ইটারী 18 অ্া্ ( নাভ উদল্লখ করুন) 99

঩রযদ঱ভনকাযী কভভকতভায ভন্তব্য ঑ তারযখ঳঴ স্বাক্ষয

গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঳যকায জগা঩নী৞
ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা ঴াউজদ঴াড কাড ভ
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- ২
঩রয঳াংখ্যান বফন, ই-২৭/এ, আগাযগাঁ঑, ঢাকা -১২০৭
২.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ......................................... উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
উিঃ/঑৞াডিঃভ .......................... জভৌজা/ভ঴ল্লািঃ ............................ RMO : খানা নম্বযিঃ
১-খানা ভরডউর
১। খানা৞ ফ঳ফাদ঳য ঘদযয ঳াংখ্যা ২। উৎ঳ জবদদ ঩ারনয ব্যফ঴ায ৩। ঩ারনয উৎদ঳য ভাররকানা ৪। আজরায উৎ঳ ৫। জ্বারানীয উৎ঳ ৬। ঩া৞খানায সুরফধা ৭। আরথ ভক অফস্থা (গত ১ ফৎ঳দযয)
ফ঳ফাদ঳য ঘদযয প্রকায ঳াং ফ঳ফাদ঳য ঘদযয ব্যফ঴ায রনজস্ব 1 রফদুুৎ 1 খড়/঩াতা 1 জ঳দনটাযী (঑৞াটায ঳ীর঳঴) 1 ঳ফ ভদা অবাফ অনটন 1
খ্যা ভ
আ৞তন(ফগপৄট) উৎ঳ খাফায অ্া্ জমৌথ 2 জকদযার঳ন 2 ত্যল/ভুরল 2 জ঳দনটাযী (঑৞াটায ঳ীররফ঴ীন) 2 ঳াভর৞ক অবাফ অনটন 2
1 দারান ঘয ঩ারন ব্যফ঴ায ঳যকাযী 3 3 খরড় 3 নন-জ঳দনটাযী/কাঁচা 3 আ৞-ব্য৞ ঳ভান 3
2 আধা ঩াকা ঘয ট্যা঩ 1 1 4 অ্া্ 9 জকদযার঳ন 4 জখারা জা৞গা 4 স্বির 4
3 টিদনয/কাদঠয ঘয টিউফ঑দ৞র 2 2 শ 5 রফদুুৎ 5 9
4 ভাটিয ঘয কু৞া/ইন্দাযা 3 3 9 গ্যা঳ 6
5 ফাঁ঱/ছদনয ঘয পুকুয /দডাফা 4 4 অ্া্ 9
6 অ্া্ নদী/খার 5 5
(দকান বফদন একারধক খানা ফ঳ফা঳ কযদর প্রথভ বৃরষ্টয ঩ারন 6 6
খানায গৃদ঴যয ঳াংখ্যা ঴দফ ‘১ এফাং অ্া্ খানায গৃদ঴য ফারর ঳যাদনা ঩ারন 7 7
঳াংখ্যা ঴দফ ‘০
8 8
অ্া্ 9 9
২-ব্যরি ভরডউর
৮। ৯। খানায ঳দস্যদদয নাভ ১০। ফ৞঳ ১১। ররাংগ ১ । ধভভ ১৩। খানা প্রধাদনয ঳াদথ ঳ম্পকভ ১৪। বফফার঴ক ৫। ৪ ১৬। ঳দফ ভাচ্চ ১৭। র঱ক্ষারদ৞ ১৮। র঱ক্ষা অ঳ভাপ্ত জযদখ ৯। ২০। রচঠি ২১ । জকাথা৞ জরখা ঩ড়া ২২।
ইন (পূণ ভ ফৎ঳দয) খানা প্রধান- ...................1 অফস্থা 2-5 জকান জশ্রণী ঩া঳ মান রক? জরখা঩ড়া জছদড়দছন রক? ররখদত ঩াদযন র঱দখদছন? অথভননরতক রক
নাং (এক ফছদযয পুরুল- .... 1 ই঳রাভ- .. 1 স্বাভী-স্ত্রী- ......................2 অরফফার঴ত-........... 1 কদযদছন? (গত এক ফৎ঳দয) ? রক? প্রারতষ্ঠারনক র঱ক্ষার৞ .. 1 কাজ কদযন ?
কভ ঴দর ‘০০ ভর঴রা- .. 2 র঴ন্দু- ..... 2 ঳ন্তান- ........................ 3 রফফার঴ত- ............. 2 (৫ ফছদযয ঴ুাঁ........ 1 ঴ুাঁ ........ 1 ঴ুাঁ........ 1 ঴ুাঁ ........ 1 ঩রযফায .................. 2
ররখন) -.. 3 জফৌি- ..... 3 র঩তা/ভাতা/িশুয/িাশুড়ী- ...4 রফধফা/রফ঩ত্নীক- ..... 3 ? উদর্ধ্ভ) না ........ 2 না ........ 2 না ........ 2 না......... 2 ঳যকাযী অ-প্রারতষ্ঠারনক (দকাড)
খ্রীষ্টান- ... 4 ( )- ............8 তারাক/রফরিন্ন- ...... 4 (দকাড ) (৩ ফছয ঑ প্রদমাজু ন৞-3 (৫ ফছয ঑ র঱ক্ষা কাম ভত্ররভ .......... -3
অ্া্- .. 9 অ্া্ ( )- ..........9 পৃথক ফ঳ফা঳- ....... 5 তদুর্ধ্ভ) (৫ ফছয ঑ তদুর্ধ্ভ) এনরজ঑ র঱ক্ষা কাম ভত্ররভ 4
(১০ ফছয ঑ তদুর্ধ্ভ) তদুর্ধ্ভ) অ্া্-9
০১
০২
০৩
০৪
০৫
১৬ ঑ ২২ নাং প্রশ্ন এয জকাড ১নাং তপর঳দর আদছ।
সু঩াযবাইজাদযয নাভ ------------------------------ জযরজস্ট্রায নাভ ----------------------------------------------
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ ---------------------------------------- স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ ----------------------------------------

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা জন্঩
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- ৩
৩.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
উিঃ/঑৞াডিঃভ .......................... জভৌজা/ভ঴ল্লািঃ ............................ RMO :
৩.২ (ক) গত .............................................. ঴দত .......................................... ঩ম ভন্ত নমুনা এরাকা৞ রন৞রভত উ঩রস্থত/ ঳াভর৞কবাদফ অনু঩রস্থত ঳দস্যাদদয গদবভ জম ঳ভস্ত র঱শু জন্঩গ্র঴ণ কদযদছ তাদদয জন্঩ ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য
রনদেয ছক অনুমা৞ী ঳াংগ্র঴ করুণ।
(খ) একই খানা৞ একারধক র঱শুয জন্঩ ঴দর “খানা নম্বয” করাদভ ঐ খানায নম্বযটি পূনযা৞ ররখন এফাং ঳াংরিষ্ট র঱শুয তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
খানায নম্বয
র঱শুয ভাদ৞য জন্঩ -র঱শু ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য র঱শুয ভাতায ব্যরিগত তথ্য
রাইন ১। র঱শুয নাভ ২। জন্঩ ৩। র঱শুয জন্঩৪। জন্঩ র঱শুয ইউিঃ ৫। জন্঩ রনফন্ধনকযদণয ৬। র঱শুয ৭। ৮। ৯। । ১১। র঱শুয ভাতায ১ । ৩। ১৪। ৫। ১৬।
নাং র঱শু জছদর তারযখ কত ? ঩রযলদ/দ঩ৌয঳বা/ র঳টি তারযখ কত? জন্঩স্থান র঱শুয জন্঩/ জদন্঩য এই র঱শু এখন঑ র঱শু জীরফত নাভ রক? ভাতায ভাতা জকান এখন জভাট কতটি
না জভদ৞ কযদ঩াদয঱ন/ জকাথা৞? প্র঳ফকারী যকভ জীরফত না মৃত ফ৞঳ জশ্রণী শ ঳ন্তান জীরফত
কুান্টনদভ (দকাড) ঳ভদ৞ আদছ রক? অফস্থা৞ (পূণ ভ ঩া -1 ? আদছ?
জছদর-1 জফাদড ভ রনফন্ধন কযা ঳া঴ায্যকাযী জক জন্঩গ্র঴ণ ফৎ঳দয) কদযদছন -2 ( )
জভদ৞-2 ঴দ৞দছ রক? (জদন্঩য ৪৫ রছদরন? ঴াঁ-1 কদযদছ? -3
-3 রদদনয ভদে) (দকাড) একক ..... 1 না-2 (দকাড) -9
঴াঁ- 1 মভজ ...... 2 জীরফত জন্঩-1
রদন ভা঳ ঳ন না- 2 রদন ভা঳ ঳ন ফহু......... 3 মৃত জন্঩ -2
৭ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড (প্র঳ফকারীন ঳া঴ায্যকাযীয জকাড) t

১। প্রর঱ক্ষণ প্রাপ্ত t ডািায-1, / শ (FWV)-2, (MA)/ - (SACMO)-3,
(HA)/ (FWA)-4;
। শ t / -5, QUACK -6, শ -7, -9
৬ ঑ ১৪ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড ১নাং তপর঳দর আদছ।
সু঩াযবাইজায/দযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ ---------------------------------------
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ ------------------------------------

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা মৃত্যু
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- ৪
৪.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
৪.২ গত ................ ঴দত ................ ঩ম ভন্ত নমুনা এরাকা৞ রন৞রভত উ঩রস্থত/঳াভর৞কবাদফ অনু঩রস্থত ঳দস্য/ ঳দস্যা মাযা ভাযা রগদ৞দছন তাদদয ব্যরিগত ঑ অ্া্ তথ্য রনদে উদল্লরখত ছদক ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
খানায মৃত ব্যরিয ব্যরিগত তথ্য

নম্বয রাইন ১। মৃত ব্যরিয নাভ ২। ররাংগ ৩। মৃত্যুয ঳ভ৞ ফ৞঳ ৪। মৃত্যুয ৫। মৃত্যুয ৬। মৃত্যুয তারযখ ৭। মৃত ব্যরিয ইউিঃ঩রযলদ/ ৮। মৃত্যু
নাং স্থান কাযণ জ঩ৌয঳বা/ র঳টি কযদ঩াদয঱ন/ রনফন্ধনকযদণয
পুরুল-1 কুান্টনদভন্ট জফাদড ভ রনফন্ধন কযা তারযখ
ভর঴রা- 2 (দকাড) (দকাড অ঩য ঴দ৞দছ রক?
-3 পৃষ্ঠা৞ জদখন) ঴ুাঁ- 1, না- 2
ফছয ভা঳ রদন রদন ভা঳ ঳ন ৬ রদন ভা঳ ঳ন
রফিঃ দ্রিঃ
মৃত জন্঩ ঴দর তপর঳র-৪ পূযণ কযদত ঴দফ না।
মৃত্যুয কাযণ আত্ম঴তুা (৪৫) ঴দর কাযণ঳঴ ররখন।
৪ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড ১ নাং তপর঳দর আদছ। সু঩াযবাইজায/দযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ -------------------------------
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ -----------------------------------------------

মৃত্যুয কাযণ ঑ জকাড
মৃত্যুয কাযণ জকাড মৃত্যুয কাযণ জকাড মৃত্যুয কাযণ জকাড
গুটি ফ঳ন্ত 01 ফহুমূত্র (ডা৞াদফটি঳) 24 জ঩ারর঑ 44
঴াভ 02 র঩ি জযাগ 25 আত্ম঴তুা 45
ম্যাদররয৞া 03 ফাত জযাগ 26 খন 46
টাইপদ৞ড/ প্যাযা টাইপদ৞ড 04 ফাত জ্বয 27 পুদড় মা঑৞া 47
ইনফ্লুদ৞িা 05 ঩ক্ষাঘাত 28 ঳াদ঩ কাটা 48
জডঙ্গু 06 রড঩দথরয৞া 29 রফল ৞া 49
অ্া্ জ্বয 07 জ঩঩টিক আর঳ায 30 ঩ারনদত ডুদফ মৃত্যু 50
জরি঳ 08 জভরননজাইটি঳ 31 অ্া্ দুঘ ভটনা 51
আদ঳ ভরনক 09 অপুরষ্টজরনত ব্যারধ 32 ভানর঳ক জযাগ 52
কদরযা 10 টিউভায 33 ভাদকা঳ি 53
জটির ডা৞রয৞া 11 কুান঳ায 34 জরাতঙ্ক 54
দীঘ ভস্থা৞ী ডা৞রয৞া 12 চভভদযাগ 35 ফাধ ভকুজরনত জটিরতা 55
জটির আভা঱৞ 13 কুষ্ঠ 36 কৃরভ ঳াংক্রান্ত জযাগ 56
দীঘ ভস্থা৞ী আভা঱৞ 14 জটির গবভাফস্থা/রফর্তষ্ণা/ ক্ষুধাভনৈ/ ঩াদ৞ ঩ারন 37 নাক, কান ঑ গরা ঳াংক্রান্ত জযাগ 57
যি আভা঱৞ 15 নাভা /পৄদর মা঑৞া ভরস্তদে যিক্ষযণ 58
মক্ষা জটিরতায ঳াদথ ঳ন্তান প্র঳ফ/গবভ পৄর আটদক 38 জমৌন জযাগ
16 মা঑৞া/প্র঳ফকাদর প্রচি ব্যথা, জযায়ুয রফচুুরত 59
঴াঁ঩ানী 17 ঴঑৞া /রিঁদড় মা঑৞া। এইচআইরব/এইড঳ 60
িা঳দযাগ 18 প্র঳দফয ঩য যিক্ষযণ (PPH) 39 পৄ঳পৄদ঳ ঩ারন জভা 61
রনউদভারন৞া 19 জটিরতায ঳াদথ গবভ঩াত/জটির গবভ঩াত 40 এুাদ঩রি঳াইটি঳ 62
হুর঩াং কপ 20 মৃগী 63
গবভাফস্থা৞ যি঩াত (APH) 41
উচ্চ যিচা঩ 21 সূরতকা রকডনী ঳ভস্যা 64
42
হৃদদযাগ 22 ধনুষ্টাংকায অ্া্ (উদল্লখ করুন) 99
43
হৃদমদন্ত্রয রক্র৞া ফন্ধ/঴াট ভ জষ্ট্রাক 23
রফিঃ দ্রিঃ ভার্তমৃত্যুজরনত কাযদণয জকাডিঃ 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43.

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা রফফা঴
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- ৫
৫.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
৫.২ (ক) গত .................... ঴দত ..................... ঩ম ভন্ত নমুনা এরাকা৞ গত ৩ (রতন) ভাদ঳ রন৞রভত /঳াভর৞কবাদফ অনু঩রস্থত ঳দস্য/঳দস্যা মাদদয রফফা঴ ঴দ৞দছ তাদদয ব্যরিগত তথ্য রনদেয ছক অনুমা৞ী ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন।
(খ) একই খানা৞ একারধক ব্যরিয রফফা঴ ঴দর “খানা নম্বয করাদভ” ঐ খানায নম্বযটি পূনযা৞ ররখন এফাং রফফার঴ত দম্পরতয তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
খানায রাইন ১। এ খানা ঴দত মায রফফা঴ ঴দ৞দছ তাঁয ব্যরিগত তথ্য
নম্বয নাং পুরুল না ২। রফফাদ঴য তারযখ ৩। মায রফফা঴ ঴দ৞দছ তাঁয নাভ রক ? ৪। রফফাদ঴য ৫। ফতভভান রফফাদ঴য ৬। ধভভ ৭। জকান জশ্রণী ৮। অথ ভননরতক ৯। এ রফফা঴
ভর঴রায রফফা঴ ঳ভ৞ ফ৞঳ পূদফ ভ তায বফফার঴ক ঩া঳ কদযদছন রক কাজ জযরজরষ্ট্র
঴দ৞দছ? কত রছর ? অফস্থা রক রছর? ই঳রাভ-1 কদযন? ঴দ৞দছ রক
(পূণ ভ ফৎ঳দয) র঴ন্দু-2 (দকাড) ?
পুরুল- 1 (দকাড) জফৌি-3 (দকাড) ঴ুাঁ -1
ভর঴রা- 2 খ্রীষ্টান-4 না -2
রদন ভা঳ ঳ন অ্া্-9
৫, ৭ ঑ ৮ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড ১ নাং তপর঳দর আদছ।

সু঩াযবাইজায/দযরজস্ট্রাদযয ..........................................................................
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ ...............................................................

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা তারাক/ পৃথক ফ঳ফা঳
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- - ৬
৬.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
৬.২ গত ................................................. ঴দত .................................................... এ রতন ভাদ঳য ভদে নমুনা এরাকা৞ ঳াংঘটিত তথ্য রনদেয ছদক পূযণ করুন ।
৬.৩ নমুনা এরাকায প্রদতুকটি খানা৞ রজজ্ঞা঳া করুন এফাং গত ৩ ভাদ঳ ভদনাভাররদ্য কাযদণ পৃথকবাদফ ফ঳ফা঳ কযদর জ঳঳ফ ব্যরি ঳ম্পদকভ তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
৬.৪ গত ৩ ভাদ঳ খানায পুরুল / ভর঴রা জকউ তারাকপ্রাপ্ত/রফফা঴ রফদিদ ঴দ৞ থাকদর তাদদয ঳ম্পদকভ তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
৬.৫ গত ৩ ভাদ঳ তারাক প্রাপ্ত / রফফা঴ রফদিদ প্রাপ্ত ব্যরি ফতভভাদন রফফার঴ত ঴দ৞ থাকদর঑ তাদদয ঳ম্পদকভ তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
৬.৬ তারাক প্রাপ্ত / রফফা঴ রফদিদ প্রাপ্ত/পৃথক ফ঳ফা঳কাযী পুরুল/ভর঴রায তথ্য এক রাইদন করাভ - “১” ঴দত “৯” এ ররর঩ফি কযদত ঴দফ ।
৬.৭ জকান খানা৞ একারধক তারাক প্রাপ্ত / রফফা঴ রফদিদ প্রাপ্ত / পৃথক ফ঳ফা঳কাযী ব্যরি থাকদর "খানা নম্বয করাদভ'' ঐ খানায নম্বয পূণযা৞ উদল্লখ কযদত ঴দফ ।
খানায তারাক / রফফা঴ রফদিদদয কাযদণ পৃথক ফ঳ফা঳ ঳ম্পরকভত তথ্য
নম্বয রাইন নাং ১। গত রতন ভাদ঳ তারাকপ্রাপ্ত এফাং পৃথক ২। ররাংগ ৩। ফ৞঳ ৪। ধভভ ৫। জকান জশ্রণী ৬। তারাক/ ৭। তারাক এয ঩য ৮। রফফাদ঴য ঳ভ৞ আ঩নায ফ৞঳ কত ৯। রফফাদ঴য স্থার৞ত্ব কার
ফ঳ফা঳কাযী ঳দস্য/঳দস্যায নাভ ঑ জকাড (পূণ ভ ই঳রাভ -1 ঩া঳ কদযদছন পৃথক আ঩রন রক এখন রছর? (পূণ ভ ফৎ঳দয) (পূণ ভ ফৎ঳দয )
ররখন পুিঃ-1 ফৎ঳য) র঴ন্দু-2 ফ঳ফাদ঳য রফফার঴ত?
তারাক প্রাপ্ত-1 ভিঃ-2 জফৌি-3 কাযণ
(দকাড) ঴ুাঁ-1 ১ভ রফফা঴ ২৞ রফফা঴ ৩৞ রফফা঴ ১ভ রফফা঴ ২৞ রফফা঴ ৩৞ রফফা঴
পৃথক ফ঳ফা঳-2 খ্রীষ্টান-4
নাভ জকাড অ্া্-9 (দকাড) না- 2
৫ ঑ ৬ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড ১ নাং তপর঳দর আদছ।

সু঩াযবাইজায/দযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ.........................................
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ............................................

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা ভ
ফর঴গভন
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- - ৭
৭.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
ভ
৭.২ (ক) গত ------------------- ঴দত --------------- এ ৬ ভাদ঳য ভদে ফর঴গভনকাযী ব্যরিগত তথ্য রনদেয ছক অনুমা৞ী ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
(খ) জম ঳ভস্ত ব্যরিফগ ভ নমুনা এরাকা/খানা ঴দত ৬ ভাদ঳য জফ঱ী ঳ভদ৞য জ্ ফা একফাদয নমুনা এরাকা/খানা তুাগ কদয অ্ত্র চদর রগদ৞দছন তাদদয ব্যরিগত তথ্য এ ছদক ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
(গ) ৬ ভাদ঳য ভদে জকউ রফফা঴ ফা স্থা৞ীবাদফ ফ঳ফাদ঳য কাযদণ অ্ত্র গভন কযদর তায ব্যরিগত তথ্য ঳াংগ্র঴ কযদত ঴দফ ।
ভ
(ঘ) ৬ ভাদ঳য কভ ঳ভদ৞য জ্ (রফফা঴ এফাং খানা স্থানান্তয ঴঑৞ায কাযণ ব্যরতত) ফর঴গভনকাযীদদয ফাদ রদদত ঴দফ ।
(ঙ) একই খানা ঴দত একারধক ব্যরিয ফর঴গভন ভ ঴দর ঐ একই খানা নম্বয রদদ৞ ঩য ঩য রাইদন তাদদয ব্যরিগত তথ্য ররখন ।
খানায রাইন ভ
১। ফর঴গভনকাযীয নাভ ২। ররাংগ ৩। ফ৞঳ ৪। জম স্থাদন ফর঴গভন ভ ৫। জম জজরা/দদদ঱ ফর঴গভন ভ ভ
৬। ফর঴গভদনয ভ
৭। ফর঴গভদনয ভা঳ ভ
৮। ফর঴গভদনয
নম্বয নাং পুরুল-1 কত? কদযদছন কদযদছন জ঳ জজরা/দদদ঱য নাভ ঑ কাযণ রক? ঑ ফৎ঳য ররখন ধযণ
ভর঴রা-2 (পূণ ভ ঩ল্লী-1 জকাড ররখন
-3 ফৎ঳দয) জ঩ৌয঳বা-2 (দকাড রনদচ জদখন) খানা-1
র঳টি কদ঩ভাদয঱ন-3 ব্যরি-2
জদদ঱য ফাইদয-4
নাভ জকাড ভা঳ ফৎ঳য
ভ
ফর঴গভদনয কাযণ ঳ম্পরকভত জকাড (৬ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড) t
রফফাদ঴য কাযদণ -1, জরখা঩ড়ায জ্ -2, চাকুযীয উদেদশ্য -3, চাকুযী ঩া঑৞া - 4, ফদররজরনত কাযদণ -5, রছন্নমূর/নদীবাঙ্গা -6, জযাজগাদযয জ্ -7, স্বাভী/স্ত্রী/র঩তাভাতা/আত্মীদ৞য রনকট ফ঳ফাদ঳য জ্ - 8, ব্যফ঳ায
উদেশ্য-9, চাকুযী ঴দত অফ঳যজরনত কাযদণ-10, রফদদ঱ গভন-11, অ্া্-99।
৫ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড ১ নাং তপর঳দর আদছ।
সু঩াযবাইজায/দযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ ....................................
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ .............................................

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা আগভন
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- - ৮
৮.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
৮.২ (ক) গত -------------------঴দত---------------এ ৬ ভাদ঳য ভদে আগভন (আন্ত:গভন) কাযীদদয ব্যরিগত তথ্য রনদেয ছক অনুমা৞ী ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন ।
(খ) জম ঳ভস্ত ব্যরিফগ ভ অ্ জা৞গা ঴দত নমুনা এরাকায খানা৞ স্থা৞ীবাদফ ৬ ভা঳ ফা ৬ ভাদ঳য জফ঱ী ঳ভদ৞য জ্ ফ঳ফাদ঳য উদেদশ্য আগভন কদযদছন তাঁদদয ব্যরিগত তথ্য এ তপর঳দর ঳াংগ্র঴ কযদত ঴দফ।
(গ) রফফা঴ ফা অ্ জকান কাযদণ জকান ব্যরি/ ব্যরিফগ ভ নমুনা এরাকা৞ স্থা৞ীবাদফ ফ঳ফা঳ কযফায উদেদশ্য আগভন কযদর ফা জকান নত্যন খানায সৃরষ্ট ঴দর ঳াংরিষ্ট ব্যরি ফা ব্যরিফদগযভ তথ্য঑ খানা তাররকা তপর঳র
এফাং ঴াউজদ঴াড কাদড ভ ররর঩ফি কযদত ঴দফ। এ জক্ষদত্র ঳ভদ৞য জকান ফােফাধকতা জনই ।
(ঘ) ঳াভর৞কবাদফ নমুনা এরাকা৞ আগভনকাযীদদয তথ্য ঳াংগ্রদ঴য প্রদ৞াজন জনই।
(ঙ) একই খানা৞ একারধক ব্যরিয আগভন (আন্ত::গভন) ঴দর ঐ খানায নম্বযটি পুনযা৞ ররখন এফাং আগভন ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য ঩য ঩য ঳াংগ্র঴ করুন।
খানায রাইন নাং ১। আগভনকাযীয নাভ ২। ররাংগ ৩। ফ৞঳ ৪। আগভদনয ৫। জম স্থান ঴দত ৬। জম জজরা/দদ঱ ৭।আগভদনয ৮।আগভদনয
নম্বয (পূণ ভ ফৎ঳দয) কাযণ রক? আগভন কদযদছন ঴দত আগভন ভা঳ ঑ ফৎ঳য ধযণ
পুরুল-1 (দকাড রনদচ ঩ল্লী-1 কদযদছন জ঳ ররখন খানা-1
ভর঴রা-2 জদখন) জ঩ৌয঳বা-2 জজরা/দদ঱য ব্যরি-2
-3 র঳টি কদ঩ভাদয঱ন-3 নাভ ঑ জকাড
জদদ঱য ফাইদয-4 ররখন
নাভ জকাড ভা঳ ফৎ঳য
আগভদনয কাযণ ঳ম্পরকভত জকাড (৪নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড) t

রফফাদ঴য কাযদণ -1, জরখা঩ড়ায জ্ -2, চাকুযীয উদেদশ্য -3, চাকুযী জ঩দ৞ - 4,ফদররজরনত কাযদণ -5, রছন্নমূর/নদীবাঙ্গা -6, জযাজগাদযয জ্ -7, স্বাভী/স্ত্রী/র঩তাভাতা/আত্মীদ৞য রনকট ফ঳ফাদ঳য জ্ - 8, ব্যফ঳ায
উদেদশ্য-9, চাকুযী ঴দত অফ঳যজরনত কাযদণ-10, রফদদ঱ জপযত-11, অ্া্-99।
৬ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড ১ নাং তপর঳দর আদছ।
সু঩াযবাইজায/দযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ.............................................
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ ..............................................

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা জন্঩রন৞ন্ত্রণ
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- - ৯
৯.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
৯.২ স্বাক্ষাৎকায গ্র঴দণয তারযদখ নমুনা এরাকা৞ ফ঳ফা঳যত ফতভভাদন রফফার঴তা ফা কখদনা রফফার঴তা (রফধফা/তারাকপ্রাপ্তা) ১৫-৪৯ ফছদযয ভর঴রাগণ এ তপর঳দরয উিযদাতা ঴দফন।
৯.৩ স্বাক্ষাৎকায গ্র঴দণয তারযখ : ......................................
স্বাভীয ব্যরিগত তথ্য স্ত্রীয ব্যরিগত তথ্য জন্঩রন৞ন্ত্রণ ঩িরত ব্যফ঴ায ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য
১ ২ ৩ ৪ ৫ ৬ ৭ ৮ ৯ ১০ ১১ ১২ ১৩ ১৪ ১৫ ১৬ ১৭
খানা রাইন স্বাভীয নাভ ফতভভান র঱ক্ষা অথ ভননরতক রক রাইন স্ত্রীয নাভ ফতভভান র঱ক্ষা অথ ভননরতক আ঩রন রক কখদনা উিয ঴ুাঁ ঴দর আ঩রন রক উিয ঴ুাঁ ঴দর ঩ািভ উিয ঴ুাঁ ঴দর
নম্বয নাং ফ৞঳ (দকাড) কাজ কদযন? নাং ফ৞঳ (পূণ ভ (দকাড) রক কাজ জন্঩রন৞ন্ত্রণ ঩িরত জন্঩রন৞ন্ত্রদণয ফতভভাদন আ঩রন ফতভভাদন - প্ররতরক্র৞া ঩ািভ প্ররতরক্র৞ায
(পূণ ভ (দকাড) ফৎ঳দয) কদযন? ব্যফ঴ায কদযদছন? জকান জকান ঩িরত জকাদনা ঩িরত জকান ঩িরত আদছ রক? জকাড ররখন
ফৎ঳দয) (দকাড) ঴ুাঁ-1 ব্যফ঴ায কদযদছন? ব্যফ঴ায ব্যফ঴ায ঴ুাঁ-1 (দকাড)
না-2 (একারধক উিয কদযন? কযদছন? (একটি না-2
঴দত ঩াদয) ঴ুাঁ-1 উিয জকাদড
(দকাড) না-2 রদদত ঴দফ)
জন্঩রন৞ন্ত্রণ ঩িরতয নাভ ঑ জকাড (১৩ নাং ঑ ১৫ নাং প্রশ্ন) : কনডভ-01, খা঑৞ায ফরড়-02, ইনদজক঱ন-03, পুরুল ফন্ধুাকযণ (বুাজ঳কটরভ)-04, আইইউরড/কাটা (ক঩াযটি)-05, ভর঴রা ফন্ধুাকযণ (রাইদগ঱ন)-06, জপাভ
ট্যাফদরট-07, নযলুান্ট-08, গবভ঩াত (এভ আয)-09, জ঴রকরভ/আয়ুদফ ভরদক-10, জ঴ারভ঑প্যারথক-11, প্রতুা঴ায/আমর-12, রনযা঩দকার-13, রফযরত-14, অ্া্ (উদল্লখ করুন)-15, রনরুিয-88, জারননা-99.
১৭ নাং প্রদশ্নয ঩ািভ প্ররতরক্র৞ায জকাড: ঑জন জফদড় মা঑৞া-1, ভাথা জঘাযাদনা/ভাথা ব্যথা ঴঑৞া -2, অরতভাত্রা৞ যিক্ষযণ-3, ভার঳ক ফন্ধ ঴঑৞া-4, অরন৞রভত ভার঳ক ঴঑৞া-5, ঱যীয জ্বারা জ঩াড়া কযা-6, তরদ঩দট ব্যথা ঴঑৞া-
7, হৃদস্পন্দন জফদড় মা঑৞া-8, অরধক ঳ভ৞, ভার঳ক চরা-9, রনরুিয-10, অ্া্-99 ।
৫, ৬, ১০ ঑ ১১ নাং প্রদশ্নয জকাড ১ নাং তপর঳দর আদছ।
সু঩াবাইজাদযয নাভ .............................................................. জযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ ............................................
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ .................................................................. স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ .............................................

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা প্ররতফন্ধী
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- - ১০
১০.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................
১০.২ তারযদখ খানা৞ ফ঳ফা঳যত ঳কর প্ররতফন্ধীয তথ্য।

১০.৩ স্বাক্ষাৎকায গ্র঴দণয তারযখ : ......................................
১০.৪ প্ররতফন্ধী ঑ প্রকৃরত
খানায রাইন ১। প্ররতফন্ধীয নাভ ২। ররাংগ ৩। ফ৞঳ ৪। কত রদন মাফৎ ৫। প্ররতফন্ধীয প্রকায ৬। প্ররতফন্ধীয ভাত্রা জকাদড ররখন ৭। প্ররতফন্ধীয কাযণ জকাদড ররখন
নম্বয নাং (পূণ ভ প্ররতফন্ধী জকাদড ররখন
পুরুল-1 ফৎ঳দয) ফৎ঳য ভা঳ 1. ঳ম্পূণ ভবাদফ অক্ষভ 1. জন্঩গত 5.ভুর রচরকৎ঳ায
ভর঴রা-2 2. জটির অক্ষভতা (পুদযাপুরয অক্ষভ নদ঴) 2. দুঘ ভটনা কাযদণ
-3 3. ঴ারকা/ ঳াভা্ অক্ষভতা 3. অসুখ 9. অ্া্
4. অরধক ফ৞঳
প্ররতফন্ধীয প্রকায জকাড: 01. চ঱ভা রদদ৞঑ জদখদত অসুরফধা, 02. শ্রফণমন্ত্র ব্যফ঴ায কদয঑ শুনদত অসুরফধা, 03. ঴াঁটদত ফা উ঩দয উঠানাভা কযদত অসুরফধা, 04. অসুস্থতায কাযদণ জকান রকছু ভদন যাখদত ফা জকান রফলদ৞
ভদনাদমাগ রদদত অসুরফধা, 05. রনদজয মত্ন রনদত জমভন খা঑৞া, ট৞দরট ব্যফ঴ায, জগা঳র, ঴াত-মুখ জধা৞া ঑ কা঩ড় ঩যদত অসুরফধা , 06. রনদজয কথা অ্দক ব্যঝাদত ফা অদ্য কথা ব্যঝদত অসুরফধা, 99. অ্া্ (উদল্লখ্য
করুন)
সু঩াবাইজাদযয নাভ .............................................................. জযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ ...............................................
স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ .................................................................. স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ ................................................

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা এইচআইরব/এইড঳
ভরনটরযাং রদ র঳চুদ৞঱ন অপ বাইটার স্ট্ুাটি঳টিকস্ অপ ফাাংরাদদ঱ প্রকে তপর঳র- - ১১
১১.১ নমুনা এরাকা ঩রযরচরতিঃ PSU নাং : রািঃ ................................ উ঩দজরা/থানািঃ .......................................

১১.২ স্বাক্ষাৎকায গ্র঴দণয তারযদখ HIV/AIDS ঳াংক্রান্ত তথ্য
১১.৩ খানা৞ ফ঳ফা঳কাযী ১৫-৪৯ ফছদযয ঳কর রফফার঴তা/অরফফার঴তা ভর঴রায জ্ এ প্রশ্ন঩ত্রটি পূযণ কযদত ঴দফ।
১১.৪ ……………………
খানায রাইন নাং ১। উিযদাতায নাভ ২। ফ৞঳ ৩। এইচআইরব/এইড঳ জযাদগয কাযণ ঳ম্পদকভ উিযদাতায ৪। আ঩রন রক ভদন কদযন এইড঳ এ আক্রান্ত ভাদ৞য কাছ জথদক র঱শুয এইড঳ রনেফরণ ভত অফস্থা৞
নম্বয ধাযণা (একারধক উিয ঴দত ঩াদয) ঳াংক্ররভত
঴দত ঩াদয? (গবভাফস্থা৞, প্র঳দফয ঳ভ৞ ঑ র঱শুদক স্ত্দান এই ৩ অফস্থাদনযই উিয রদদফন)
অরনযা঩দ জমৌন ঳ম্পকভ-1 ভ঱ায কাভদড়-4 গবভাফস্থা৞ প্র঳দফয ঳ভ৞ র঱শুদক স্ত্দান কযদর
মাদু জটানা ফা অদরৌরকক জকান এইড঳ আক্রান্ত ব্যরিয ঳াদথ
কাযদণ-2 খাফায বাগাবারগ কদয জখদর-5
জমৌন রভরদনয ঳ভ৞ কনডভ অ্া্-6 (উদল্লখ করুন) ঴ুা-1 না-2 জারননা-8 ঴ুা-1 না-2 জারননা-8 ঴ুা-1 না-2 জারননা-8
ব্যফ঴ায না কযদর-3 -9
সু঩াবাইজাদযয নাভ ............................................................ জযরজস্ট্রাদযয নাভ .......................................................

স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ ................................................................ স্বাক্ষয ঑ তারযখ .........................................................

Annexure – 7
Abbreviation
ASMFR : Age-Specific Marital Fertility Rate
ASDR : Age-Specific Death Rate
ASFR : Age- Specific Fertility Rate
ASMR : Age- Specific Marriage Rate
BBS : Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
BFS : Bangladesh Fertility Survey
BS : Both Sexes
CBR : Crude Birth Rate
CDR : Crude Death Rate
CDiR : Crude Divorce Rate
ChDR : Child Death Rate
CMR : Crude Marriage Rate
CPR : Contraceptive Prevalence Rate
CPS : Contraceptive Prevalence Survey
CSDR : Cause Specific Death Rate
CSR : Crude Separation Rate
GDR : General Divorce Rate
GFR : General Fertility Rate
GMR : General Marriage Rate
GSR : General Separation Rate
HDS : Health and Demographic Survey
HH : Household
IMR : Infant Mortality Rate
MAM : Mean Age at First Marriage
MMR : Maternal Mortality Ratio
NGR : Natural Growth Rate
NMR : Neo-Natal Mortality Rate
NRR : Net Reproduction Rate
OMR : Optical Marks Reader
OCR : Optical Character Reader
ICR : Intelligent Character Reader
PNMR : Post Neo-Natal Mortality Rate
PSU : Primary Sampling Unit
SMA : Statistical Metropolitan Area
SSVRS : Strengthening of Sample Vital Registration System
SVRS : Sample Vital Registration System
TFR : Total Fertility Rate

Annexure – 8
References
BBS 1974, Report on the 1974 Bangladesh Retrospective Survey of Fertility
and Mortality (BRSFM), Vol. 1
BBS 1984, Bangladesh Population Census, 1981; National Series Analytical Findings
and National Tables
BBS 1994, Bangladesh Population Census, 1991; Volume 2, Analytical Report
BBS 1999, Bangladesh Population Census, 1991; Volume 4, Demographic Report
BBS 2003, Bangladesh Population Census Report ,National Report
BBS 2003, Health and Demographic Survey Report; 2000
BDRS 1986, Bangladesh Demographic Survey and Vital Registration System. A short
Description and Summary Findings.
Henry S. Shryock 1976, The Methods and Materials of Demography
SVRS Report of Sample Vital Registration System; 1993 & 1994
SVRS Report of Sample Vital Registration System; 1999-2001
SVRS Report of Sample Vital Registration System; 2002
SVRS Report on Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2016
SVRS Report on Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2017
UN 1967, Manual IV: Methods of Estimating Basic Demographic Measures from
Incomplete Data, Population Studies, No.22
UN 1973, The Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends. Vol.1
Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
UN 1983, Manual X. Indirect Techniques for Demographic Estimation,
Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, Population
Studies, No.81
UN 1993, Readings in Population Research Methodology; Volume 1-8
WHO 1977, Manual of Mortality Analysis, Geneva.


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ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা

ফাাংরাদদ঱ ঩রয঳াংখ্যান ব্যুদযা

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Design Layout: S. M. Anwar Husain, Asstt. Programmer, MSVSB Project, BBS

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For further information on the survey, please contact:

Dhaka, June 2018 AHM Mustafa Kamal, FCA, MP

Dhaka, June 2018 M.A. Mannan MP

Dhaka, June 2018 Md. Nojibur Rahman

Dhaka, June 2018 Saurenrda Nath Chakrabhartty

Md. Amir Hossain

A Note from the Project Director

Dhaka, June 2018 A K M Ashraful Haque

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An estimate of the total number of events is then arrived at as follows:

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2.2 Household Headship

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2.3.1 Sources of Drinking Water

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