Table 3.
Access (%) to WASH among the Bengali and ethnic minorities population by selected characteristics
| Characteristics | Water | Sanitation | Handwashing | All (WASH) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengali | Ethnic | Bengali | Ethnic | Bengali | Ethnic | Bengali | Ethnic | |
| Place of residence | ||||||||
| Urban | 99.2 | 93.1 | 64.7 | 63.1 | 87.0 | 73.8 | 58.7 | 49.4 |
| Rural | 98.2 | 53.6 | 64.6 | 37.8 | 71.6 | 44.9 | 48.9 | 20.8 |
| Division | ||||||||
| Barishal | 97.6 | 100.0 | 65.9 | 30.8 | 46.4 | 69.2 | 33.7 | 30.8 |
| Chattogram | 98.9 | 50.9 | 67.7 | 40.4 | 70.1 | 43.6 | 51.0 | 21.8 |
| Dhaka | 99.7 | 100.0 | 60.8 | 56.3 | 88.1 | 100.0 | 54.8 | 56.3 |
| Khulna | 93.8 | 100.0 | 72.4 | 89.5 | 74.5 | 89.5 | 53.8 | 78.9 |
| Mymensingh | 99.5 | 98.1 | 57.3 | 47.7 | 62.5 | 93.5 | 40.6 | 43.0 |
| Rajshahi | 99.6 | 100.0 | 62.2 | 23.3 | 68.7 | 21.9 | 47.0 | 11.3 |
| Rangpur | 100.0 | 100.0 | 66.3 | 61.7 | 85.0 | 90.2 | 59.4 | 53.2 |
| Sylhet | 95.8 | 96.0 | 65.5 | 58.0 | 75.0 | 96.0 | 52.8 | 54.5 |
| Education of household head | ||||||||
| Pre-primary or none | 98.3 | 50.9 | 57.8 | 28.3 | 66.8 | 38.5 | 41.3 | 12.3 |
| Primary | 98.1 | 54.2 | 60.2 | 40.1 | 72.2 | 48.0 | 44.8 | 23.8 |
| Secondary | 98.8 | 78.5 | 69.4 | 61.6 | 81.3 | 64.2 | 58.3 | 42.3 |
| Higher secondary + | 99.2 | 90.0 | 84.5 | 80.7 | 91.7 | 92.0 | 78.2 | 74.7 |
| Household wealth quintile | ||||||||
| Poorest | 95.5 | 41.8 | 47.2 | 27.6 | 44.6 | 33.6 | 22.2 | 9.6 |
| Poorer | 98.7 | 90.5 | 56.9 | 52.7 | 66.3 | 60.7 | 38.1 | 32.1 |
| Middle | 99.2 | 94.7 | 66.9 | 64.6 | 78.2 | 79.6 | 52.6 | 45.9 |
| Richer | 99.1 | 98.9 | 69.0 | 84.6 | 88.0 | 92.8 | 61.1 | 77.4 |
| Richest | 99.6 | 100.0 | 82.5 | 86.7 | 96.8 | 100.0 | 80.1 | 86.7 |
| Total | 98.5 | 60.6 | 64.6 | 42.3 | 75.0 | 50.0 | 51.0 | 25.9 |