Table 2 Weighted Percentage distribution of anaemia among women by background characteristic in West Bengal and Bangladesh: NFHS 2015-16 and BDHS 2011
Background characteristics | West Bengal | Bangladesh | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | Chi | n | % | Chi | |
Demographic and health factors | ||||||
Age | 12.81 *** | |||||
Below 20 | 1,591 | 62.50 | 208 | 40.13 | 16.09 *** | |
20–24 | 1,654 | 61.74 | 383 | 39.88 | ||
25–29 | 1521 | 59.79 | 355 | 38.35 | ||
30&above | 1,458 | 64.47 | 1,253 | 44.11 | ||
Body mass index | 131.44 *** | 92.93 *** | ||||
Thin | 2,317 | 68.63 | 694 | 51.29 | ||
Normal | 5,787 | 62.67 | 1,241 | 41.23 | ||
Overweight or Obese | 1,818 | 57.76 | 265 | 29.97 | ||
Current contraceptive method | 122.32 *** | 26.16 *** | ||||
Not using | 3,983 | 62.32 | 903 | 44.53 | ||
Female sterilisation | 2,763 | 68.49 | 124 | 47.21 | ||
Pill/injection/IUD | 1,554 | 56.63 | 773 | 37.78 | ||
Othersa | 1,622 | 62.66 | 398 | 43.94 | ||
Children ever born | 39.74 *** | 22.93 *** | ||||
Child | 2,252 | 59.64 | 153 | 36.42 | ||
1–2 | 5,111 | 63.06 | 905 | 38.84 | ||
2 + | 2,559 | 65.99 | 1,140 | 45.74 | ||
Socioeconomic factors | ||||||
Education | 88.04 *** | 31.99 *** | ||||
Illiterate/primary | 4,362 | 66.93 | 1,386 | 45.19 | ||
Secondary | 4,900 | 60.68 | 702 | 38.51 | ||
Higher | 661 | 56.66 | 111 | 31.33 | ||
Religion | 65.83 *** | 19.45 *** | ||||
Hindu | 7,582 | 65.19 | 264 | 50.42 | ||
Muslim | 2,340 | 56.68 | 1,935 | 40.98 | ||
Wealth | 141.56 *** | 58.34 *** | ||||
Poor | 5,451 | 66.46 | 965 | 48.42 | ||
Middle | 2,126 | 61.11 | 430 | 42.04 | ||
Rich | 2,345 | 57.52 | 804 | 36.07 | ||
Source of drinking water | ||||||
Groundwater | 7,025 | 65.62 | 35.48 *** | 1,804 | 42.70 | 19.56 *** |
Distributed water | 2,796 | 60.15 | 180 | 30.98 | ||
Others | 212 | 51.70 | 195 | 41.49 | ||
Practicing open defecation | 54.15 *** | 15.45 *** | ||||
Yes | 2,700 | 69.91 | 95 | 53.05 | ||
No | 7,223 | 60.67 | 2,104 | 41.53 | ||
Has own land for agriculture | 62.90 *** | 3.81 * | ||||
No | 6,663 | 61.42 | 1,102 | 40.77 | ||
Yes | 3,259 | 66.38 | 1,097 | 43.15 | ||
Place of residence | 93.44 *** | 21.72 *** | ||||
Urban | 2,899 | 58.58 | 487 | 35.56 | ||
Rural | 7,024 | 64.97 | 1,712 | 44.18 | ||
Food related factors | ||||||
Food security | ||||||
Secure | NA | NA | 1,386 | 40.88 | 11.23 *** | |
Insecure | NA | NA | 832 | 43.76 | ||
Consume pulses | 9.50 *** | |||||
Daily | 4,046 | 61.96 | NA | NA | ||
Never/weekly/occasionally | 5,877 | 63.97 | NA | NA | ||
Consume fruits | ||||||
Daily | 889 | 55.27 | NA | NA | ||
Weekly | 3,512 | 62.80 | 53.39 *** | NA | NA | |
Never/occasionally | 5,521 | 64.52 | ||||
Consume chicken or meat | NA | NA | ||||
Daily/ weekly | 5,009 | 61.92 | NA | NA | ||
Occasionally | 4,612 | 64.92 | 46.36 *** | NA | NA | |
Never | 302 | 67.65 | ||||