High-resolution mapping of reproductive tract infections among women of childbearing age in Bangladesh: a spatial-temporal analysis of the demographic and health survey

Table 1 Summary of DHS surveys in Bangladesh [34,35,36]

Indicators	Year			Total
Indicators	2007	2011	2014	Total
Number of survey clusters	361	600	600	1561
Number of households interviewed (response rate %)^a	10,400 (99.4)	17,141 (97.9)	17,300 (98.5)	44,841 (98.5)
Number of women aged 15–49 interviewed (response rate %)^b	10,996 (98.4)	17,842 (97.9)	17,863 (97.9)	46,701 (98.0)
Raw prevalence of reported with RTI symptoms (%)^c	10.99	14.39	13.94	13.42
Education years of women^d	4.52 ± 4.40	4.96 ± 4.06	5.30 ± 4.10	4.99 ± 4.17
Education years of husbands^d	5.15 ± 5.01	5.39 ± 4.78	5.48 ± 4.79	5.37 ± 4.84
BAS (%)^e	22.93	32.15	44.30	32.70
Toilet improvement (%)^f	46.18	45.98	57.65	50.53
Wealth index of household^g	−38,290 (−67,484;48,000)	−24,096 (−70,135;65,283)	−29,401 (−75,110;68,694)	−29,996 (− 70,774;64,069)

^a Calculated as households interviewed/households occupied
^b Respondents interviewed/eligible respondents
^c Calculated as overall number of positive/total number of interviewed
^d Expressed as mean ± standard deviation
^e The proportion of total live births that are attended by skilled health personnel (i.e., qualified doctor, nurse, midwife, family welfare visitor, or community skilled birth attendant)
^f The proportion of interviewed women that have improved toilet facility system (i.e., Flush/pour flush to piped sewer, septic tank, pit latrine, Ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrine, Pit latrine with slab)
^g Wealth index serves as an indicator of household-level wealth, constructed using household asset data via principal components analysis by DHS²⁸, expressed as median (first quartile, third quartile)

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