Table 1.
: Characteristics of ever married non pregnant reproductive age women in urban Bangladesh, 2014 BDHS
| Variables | Frequency (%) |
|---|---|
| Age | |
| 15–19 | 90 (5.3) |
| 20–29 | 572 (33.6) |
| 30–39 | 618 (36.3) |
| 40–49 | 421 (24.8) |
| Weight (kilogram)a | 54.4 (9.3) |
| Height (meter)a | 15.1 (0.6) |
| BMI (kg/m2)a | 23.9 (3.6) |
| Highest Educational Level | |
| No education | 433 (25.5) |
| Primary | 487 (28.6) |
| Secondary | 477 (28.0) |
| Higher | 304 (17.9) |
| Current Marital Status | |
| Married | 1501 (88.2) |
| Widowed | 92 (5.4) |
| Divorced | 36 (2.1) |
| No longer living together / separated | 72 (4.2) |
| Parity | |
| No children | 147 (8.6) |
| 1–2 children | 941 (55.3) |
| 3–4 children | 458 (26.9) |
| 5+ children | 155 (9.1) |
| Working Status | |
| No working | 114 (6.7) |
| White-collar | 353 (20.8) |
| Manual | 1003 (59.0) |
| Other | 231 (13.6) |
| Wealth Index | |
| Poorest | 166 (9.8) |
| Poorer | 117 (6.9) |
| Middle | 261 (15.3) |
| Richer | 517 (30.4) |
| Richest | 640 (37.6) |
| Region of Residence | |
| Barisal | 170 (10.0) |
| Chittagong | 262 (15.4) |
| Dhaka | 420 (24.7) |
| Khulna | 272 (16.0) |
| Rajshahi | 256 (15.1) |
| Rangpur | 201 (11.8) |
| Sylhet | 120 (7.1) |
| Nutritional Status | |
| Normal | 1123 (66.0) |
| (95% CI: 0.64–0.68) | |
| Overweight | 486 (28.6) |
| (95% CI: 0.26–0.31) | |
| Obese | 92 (5.4) |
| (95% CI: 0.04–0.07) | |
a notation expressed data as mean (standard deviation)