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Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Birth registration, MICS 2006
Percent distribution of children aged 0-59 months by whether birth is registered <strong>and</strong> reasons for non-registration,
Bangladesh, 2006
Background characteristics
Birth is
registered
Don't know if
birth is
registered
Number of
children aged
0-59 months
Costs too
much
Birth is not registered because:
Must travel
too far
Didn't know
child should
be registered
Doesn't
know where
to register
Don't feel it
necessary
Total Number of children
aged 0-59 months
without birth
registration
Sex Male 10.1 6.2 16222 .4 .8 51.0 30.5 17.4 100.0 10283
Female 9.6 6.1 15344 .4 .7 52.7 29.9 16.4 100.0 9852
Division Barisal 16.4 7.6 1873 .4 1.5 46.1 29.6 22.4 100.0 1118
Chittagong 6.3 7.8 6797 .3 .8 45.4 36.1 17.4 100.0 4888
Dhaka 6.5 4.9 9942 .2 .4 54.6 29.0 15.7 100.0 6691
Khulna 11.1 1.8 3148 .2 .3 55.9 31.6 12.0 100.0 2408
Rajshahi 12.0 9.3 7284 .7 .9 54.2 24.9 19.2 100.0 3693
Sylhet 20.2 2.4 2521 .4 1.2 52.8 26.8 18.7 100.0 1336
Area Rural 8.8 6.6 23034 .4 .8 53.6 31.6 13.5 100.0 14642
Urban 12.8 4.9 8280 .3 .4 46.7 26.4 26.2 100.0 5348
Urban municipality 12.4 5.0 6061 .3 .6 47.4 26.8 24.9 100.0 3861
City Corporations 13.9 4.7 2219 .4 .1 44.8 25.4 29.4 100.0 1487
Non-slum 14.9 4.6 2009 .4 .1 42.6 25.2 31.7 100.0 1353
Slum 4.5 5.9 210 .1 .0 66.9 27.0 6.0 100.0 134
Tribal 5.0 9.3 253 .0 .3 61.2 25.7 12.8 100.0 145
Age 0-11 months 7.3 6.2 5669 .4 1.0 50.4 30.3 18.0 100.0 3621
12-23 months 10.6 5.5 6032 .4 .7 51.9 30.0 17.0 100.0 3919
24-35 months 10.2 6.2 6320 .5 .6 52.1 29.6 17.3 100.0 4016
36-47 months 10.3 6.4 6789 .2 .8 52.1 31.3 15.6 100.0 4292
48-59 months 10.5 6.5 6751 .4 .7 52.6 29.5 16.8 100.0 4284
Mother's None 5.6 7.8 11224 .4 .5 57.5 33.8 7.9 100.0 6996
education Primary incomplete 7.6 6.5 4997 .6 .4 56.9 30.7 11.3 100.0 3209
Primary completed 9.6 5.8 4084 .2 1.0 53.8 31.1 14.0 100.0 2641
Secondary incomplete 11.8 5.0 7948 .4 .8 48.3 28.2 22.3 100.0 5298
Secondary completed 23.9 3.3 3204 .1 1.5 30.1 20.3 48.1 100.0 1933
or higher
Non-st<strong>and</strong>ard curriculum 1.7 9.4 106 .9 .0 47.0 36.4 15.7 100.0 57
Wealth index Poorest 6.1 8.0 7987 .5 .5 58.3 31.7 9.0 100.0 4863
quintiles Second 6.8 7.4 6615 .2 .8 55.8 31.5 11.6 100.0 4191
Middle 8.8 5.8 5918 .5 .7 54.2 31.9 12.7 100.0 3835
<strong>Fourth</strong> 11.7 4.4 5854 .4 .8 48.1 31.3 19.3 100.0 3902
Richest 18.6 4.2 5192 .2 .8 39.0 23.0 37.1 100.0 3345
National 9.8 6.2 31566 .4 .7 51.8 30.2 16.9 100.0 20135
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