Third and Fourth Periodic Report on CRC - Unicef

Convention on the Rights of the Child
Annex: 9
Iodized salt consumption, MICS 2006
Percentage of households consuming adequately iodized salt,
Bangladesh, 2006
Background Percent of Number of Percent of households Total Number of
characteristics households households with salt test result households
in which salt interviewed Percent of Not Iodized in which
was tested households iodized (10+ PPM)* salt was
with no salt
tested or
with no salt
Division Barisal 99.1 3909 .6 9.1 90.3 100.0 3901
Chittagong 99.0 11015 .8 21.5 77.7 100.0 10987
Dhaka 98.6 20219 1.0 15.0 84.0 100.0 20128
Khulna 99.1 7465 .7 5.7 93.6 100.0 7445
Rajshahi 98.4 16432 1.3 17.0 81.7 100.0 16379
Sylhet 98.9 3423 .9 7.0 92.1 100.0 3415
Area Rural 98.8 43735 .9 17.8 81.2 100.0 43614
Urban 98.6 18138 1.0 7.5 91.5 100.0 18056
Urban 98.7 12925 1.0 8.5 90.4 100.0 12888
municipality
City 98.3 5213 .8 4.8 94.3 100.0 5169
Corporations
Non-slum 98.3 4793 .8 4.5 94.6 100.0 4750
Slum 98.5 420 1.0 8.1 90.9 100.0 418
Tribal 98.7 590 .7 11.8 87.6 100.0 586
Wealth index Poorest 98.2 13530 1.5 23.4 75.1 100.0 13493
quintiles Second 98.8 13019 .9 19.6 79.5 100.0 12982
Middle 98.9 12397 .8 15.5 83.7 100.0 12361
<strong>Fourth</strong> 98.9 11572 .8 10.1 89.1 100.0 11532
Richest 98.9 11946 .6 3.5 95.8 100.0 11888
National 98.7 62463 1.0 14.8 84.3 100.0 62256
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