Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the study population.
| Characteristic | National (n=2582) Frequency (%) | Dhaka |
Outside Dhaka |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-slum (n=701) Frequency (%) | Slum (n=126) Frequency (%) | Urban (n=1062) Frequency (%) | Rural (n=819) Frequency (%) | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 51.4 | 56.5 | 54.0 | 49.1 | 50.2 |
| Female | 48.6 | 43.5 | 46.0 | 50.9 | 49.8 |
| Age (years) | |||||
| <10 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 4.8 | 2.9 | 3.7 |
| 10–14 | 7.0 | 6.6 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 7.7 |
| 15–19 | 10.1 | 8.4 | 11.1 | 11.6 | 9.5 |
| 20–39 | 41.4 | 46.9 | 51.6 | 40.2 | 38.1 |
| 40–59 | 28.2 | 27.7 | 19.8 | 29.1 | 27.5 |
| ≥60 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 4.8 | 9.3 | 13.6 |
| Symptoms (day of visit and preceding 7 days) | |||||
| Fever | 14.0 | 18.0 | 11.1 | 13.9 | 10.7 |
| Cough | 10.8 | 13.3 | 7.1 | 11.1 | 8.5 |
| Sore throat | 3.4 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 2.2 |
| Shortness of breathing | 1.9 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Shared bathroom | |||||
| No | 82.7 | 76.6 | 23.0 | 84.1 | 86.1 |
| Yes | 17.3 | 23.4 | 77.0 | 15.9 | 13.9 |
| Household size | |||||
| ≤4 members | 53.5 | 54.4 | 59.5 | 53.6 | 52.6 |
| ≥4 members | 46.5 | 45.6 | 40.5 | 46.4 | 47.4 |
| Number of living rooms | |||||
| 1 | 15.1 | 23.8 | 61.9 | 11.9 | 11.7 |
| 2 | 31.2 | 29.2 | 29.4 | 32.8 | 30.9 |
| ≥3 | 53.7 | 46.9 | 8.7 | 55.4 | 57.4 |
| Tested for COVID-19 before the survey | |||||
| No | 99.4 | 99.0 | 98.4 | 99.3 | 99.8 |
| Yes | 0.6 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.