Bangladesh 2014

Table 7.22 Contact with family planning fieldworkers: Type of fieldworker
Percentage of currently married women age 15-49 who reported being visited by a fieldworker in the past six months, by
type of fieldworker, according to background characteristics, Bangladesh 2014
Visited in the last six months by a
Government
health worker NGO worker Other Missing
Background
characteristic
Government
FP worker
Number of
women
Age
15-19 8.4 3.2 8.0 0.2 0.0 1,984
20-24 11.9 4.6 6.1 0.1 0.0 3,166
25-29 12.7 4.7 5.3 0.0 0.1 3,249
30-34 12.5 4.2 4.4 0.2 0.0 2,919
35-39 11.7 4.2 4.0 0.1 0.1 2,153
40-44 9.7 3.6 3.8 0.0 0.0 1,874
45-49 5.9 1.8 1.9 0.3 0.0 1,512
Residence
Urban 7.0 2.9 5.7 0.1 0.0 4,709
Rural 12.5 4.4 4.7 0.1 0.0 12,149
Division
Barisal 9.9 4.9 7.0 0.2 0.0 1,051
Chittagong 7.0 3.2 3.2 0.1 0.0 3,121
Dhaka 11.1 4.0 5.7 0.0 0.1 5,857
Khulna 13.3 3.6 3.9 0.3 0.0 1,729
Rajshahi 15.0 4.6 3.6 0.1 0.0 2,007
Rangpur 12.1 3.7 7.5 0.1 0.0 1,946
Sylhet 8.9 5.3 4.3 0.1 0.1 1,147
Education
No education 9.0 3.4 4.0 0.1 0.0 3,949
Primary incomplete 11.4 4.7 4.7 0.2 0.0 3,032
Primary complete 1 12.5 3.6 4.8 0.1 0.0 1,884
Secondary incomplete 12.3 4.3 5.6 0.1 0.0 5,477
Secondary complete or
higher 2 9.3 3.6 5.9 0.1 0.1 2,516
Wealth quintile
Lowest 10.9 4.1 4.9 0.1 0.0 3,097
Second 12.7 5.8 4.5 0.0 0.0 3,223
Middle 14.3 4.7 5.7 0.2 0.0 3,394
Fourth 10.5 3.3 5.0 0.1 0.1 3,556
Highest 6.6 2.2 4.9 0.1 0.0 3,587
Total 10.9 4.0 5.0 0.1 0.0 16,858
1
Primary complete is defined as completing grade 5.
2
Secondary complete is defined as completing grade 10.
7.17 SATELLITE CLINICS
As shown in Table 7.23, 63 percent of ever-married women are aware of the existence of a satellite
clinic in their community. Awareness of satellite clinics is lower among younger women, women in urban
areas, women in Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions, women who completed secondary or higher
education, and women in the highest wealth quintile.
Seventeen percent of women who were aware of satellite clinics in their community reported visiting
such a clinic in the three months before the 2011 BDHS. More than half of the women who visited a satellite
clinic received immunization services for children, while one-fourth of women received family planning
methods and 15 percent visited to obtain vitamin A for their children. Other reasons for visiting satellite
clinics include receiving tetanus toxoid injections (5 percent), antenatal care services (3 percent), and child
growth monitoring (3 percent).
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