Table 1.

Background characteristics of the study participants

Variables	Frequency	Percentage
Individual level factors
Sex of household head
Male	53 460	87.3
Female	7782	12.7
Ethnicity
Bengali	60 527	98.8
Others	715	1.2
Religion
Muslim	55 261	90.2
Non-Muslim	5981	9.8
Women age group (years)a
15–19	4054	6.6
20–34	25 819	42.2
35–49	21 268	34.7
Household head education
No education	21 459	35.0
Primary	16 587	27.1
Secondary and above	23 196	37.9
Women educationa
No education	9674	15.8
Primary	13 281	21.7
Secondary and above	28 185	46.0
Wealth quintile
Poor	25 373	41.4
Middle	11 895	19.4
Rich	23 974	39.1
Household size
<4	20 894	34.1
4–5	28 758	47.0
≥6	11 590	18.9
Maternal functional difficulty
Yes	1599	2.6
No	47 974	78.3
Child death
0	45 004	73.5
1	4998	8.2
≥2	1138	1.9
Child ever borna
0	5989	9.8
1–2	25 786	42.1
≥3	19 365	31.6
Overall happinessa
Happy	42 753	69.8
Neutral	6065	9.9
Unhappy	2315	3.8
Community-level factors
Division
Barishal	1388	5.7
Chattogram	10 736	17.5
Dhaka	15 512	25.3
Khulna	7290	11.9
Mymensingh	4561	7.4
Rajshahi	8745	14.3
Rangpur	7229	11.8
Sylhet	3681	6.0
Residence
Urban	13 564	22.1
Rural	47 678	77.9
Community-level mass media exposure
Low	26 444	43.2
High	34 798	56.8

^aSome missing observations.