Table 1 Demographic and residential characteristics of the study population
From: Population profile and residential environment of an urban poor community in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Total population | 34 093 |
Mean number of household members | 4.0 |
Native-born (%) | 35.1 |
Dwelling since 1972 (%) | 0.4 |
New comers in adults aged ≥18 yearsa (%) | 24.7 |
Years of formal education in adults aged ≥18 years (%) | |
None | 32.0 |
1–4 | 16.5 |
5–7 | 23.7 |
8–9 | 15.5 |
≥ 10 | 12.3 |
Occupation in adults aged ≥18 years (%) | |
Employed | 25.9 |
Self-employed | 15.5 |
Day labor | 19.0 |
Homemaker | 27.5 |
Others | 12.1 |
Type of housing structure (%) | |
Concrete roofs/brick walls/concrete floors (pucca) | 38.5 |
Tin roofs/brick walls/mud or wooden floors (semi-pucca) | 31.4 |
Tin roofs/thatch or bamboo walls/mud or wooden floors (kutcha) | 30.1 |
House ownership (%) | |
Owned | 41.5 |
Rented | 57.4 |
Others | 1.0 |
Self-owned toilet (%) | 15.6 |
Self-owned kitchen (%) | 18.7 |
Source of drinking water (%) | |
Piped water | 99.0 |
Shallow tube well | 1.0 |
Satisfaction with water quality (%) | 62.5 |