Authors | Study | Sample | Ages | Disability measures | Prevalence |
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Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics [8] | Census 2010 | National census | All ages | Direct questioning on speech, vision, hearing, physical, mental and autistic disabilities. | 1.4 % |
Titumur and Hossain [12] | Disability in Bangladesh: Prevalence, Knowledge, attitude and Practices, 2004. | 13,025 individuals sampled throughout the country. | All ages | Direct questioning on hearing, speech, vision, physical, and intellectual impairments. | 5.6 % |
Mitra and Sambamoorti [13] | World Health Survey 2002–2004 | 5,931 households and 5,549 individuals sampled throughout the country. | 18 years and above | 4 questions: seeing, moving around, concentrating or remembering, and self-care. | 22.0 % |
World report on Disability [4] | World Health Survey 2002–2004 | 5,931 households and 5,549 individuals sampled throughout the country. | 18 years and above | 16 questions on vision, cognition, affect, interpersonal relationships, mobility, pain, sleep and energy and self-care. | 31.9 % |
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics [14] | Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2010 | 12,240 households sampled throughout the country. | All ages | WG short set (seeing, hearing, walking and climbing, remembering or concentrating, self-care, and communication) | 9.1 % |
Cherry et al. [20] | Gonoshasthaya Kendra survey 2010 | 43417 individuals from 600 villages. | 60 years and above | 12 questions based on WG questions: seeing, hearing, mobility, cognition, self-care, and communication domains. | 26.0 % |
Marella et al. (current study) | Rapid Assessment of Disability Survey 2010 | 2315 individuals in Bogra district. | 18 years and above | 15 questions based on WG questions: vision, hearing, mobility, communication, gross and fine motor, cognition, appearance and psychological distress. | 8.9 % |