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Bangladesh National Micronutrients Status Survey 2011

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
National Micronutrients Status Survey 2011-2012
Provider 
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
Tabulations only
Geography 
Bangladesh (BGD)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
10/2011 - 12/2011
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The purpose of the Bangladesh Micronutrients Survey was to estimate the status of micronutrients for children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age in urban, slums, and rural areas.  The actual sample size was 1,176 preschool children ages 6 to 59 months, 1,455 school age children ages 6 to 14, and 954 women ages 15 to 49.  In addition to household interviews, shopkeepers at six salt retailers were interviewed and salt specimens collected for iodine status and content.

Data were collected on sociodemographic characteristics, food consumption, morbidity, knowledge and practice-related issues on vitamin A, iodine and iron, anthropometry measurements (child height and weight) and biological samples (blood and urine).

Keywords 
Agriculture, Antihelminthics, Assets, Blood tests, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Child anthropometry, Children, Cooking fuels, Diarrhea, Dietary sodium, Dietary sugar, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fertility, Fever, Fish, Food expenditures, Fruits and vegetables, Health literacy, Height, Hemoglobin, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Immunization, Infants, Iodine deficiency, Iodine supplements, Iron deficiency, Iron-deficiency anemia, Land ownership, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Marriage age, Mass media, Measles, Measles vaccines, Meat, Medical tests, Medicines, Menopause, Micronutrients, Milk, Mortality, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Processed foods, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, Starchy vegetables, Symptoms, Telephones, Transportation, Urine tests, Vaccination cards, Vitamin A deficiency, Vitamin A supplements, Water supply, Weight, Zinc
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 23, 2023