Table 2.

Prevalence of adequacy of iodine salt at the household level by individual- and community-level factors

Variables	Prevalence (%)	95% CI
Community-level factors
Division
Barishal	37.9	36.3 to 39.5
Chattogram	67.5	66.6 to 68.3
Dhaka	69.2	68.5 to 69.9
Khulna	53.4	52.3 to 54.6
Mymensingh	50.8	49.4 to 52.2
Rajshahi	44.1	43.1 to 45.2
Rangpur	41.0	39.9 to 42.2
Sylhet	76.5	75.2 to 77.8
Residence
Urban	77.9	77.2 to 78.6
Rural	52.2	51.8 to 52.6
Community-level mass media exposure
Low	46.6	46.0 to 47.2
High	66.2	65.7 to 66.7
Individual-level factors
Sex of household head
Male	57.1	56.7 to 57.5
Female	62.3	61.2 to 63.4
Ethnicity
Bengali	57.7	57.4 to 58.1
Others	61.9	57.6 to 66.0
Religion
Muslim	57.6	57.1 to 58.0
Non-Muslim	59.8	58.6 to 61.1
Women age group (years)
15–19	56.9	55.4 to 58.4
20–34	60.9	60.3 to 61.5
35–49	58.0	57.4 to 58.7
Household head education
No education	45.9	45.3 to 46.6
Primary	56.0	55.3 to 56.8
Secondary and above	70.2	69.6 to 70.7
Women education
No education	47.0	46.0 to 48.0
Primary	54.3	53.5 to 55.1
Secondary and above	66.1	65.5 to 66.6
Wealth quintile
Poor	38.7	38.1 to 39.3
Middle	55.1	54.2 to 55.9
Rich	79.2	78.7 to 79.8
Household size
<4	57.6	56.9 to 58.2
4–5	58.1	57.6 to 58.7
≥6	57.3	56.4 to 58.2
Maternal functional difficulty
Yes	51.2	48.8 to 53.6
No	59.8	59.4 to 60.3
Child death
0	60.3	59.8 to 60.7
1	52.8	51.5 to 54.2
≥2	53.1	50.2 to 55.9
Child ever born
0	62.4	61.2 to 63.6
1–2	61.9	61.3 to 62.4
≥3	55.3	54.6 to 55.9
Overall happiness
Happy	61.4	61.0 to 61.9
Neutral	50.1	48.8 to 51.3
Unhappy	47.1	45.1 to 49.1
Total	57.8	57.4 to 58.2