Child Equity Atlas - BIDS

Child Equity Atlas
7.1 Social Deprivation Maps
7.1.1 The distribution of the deprived districts
and upazilas by level of deprivations using the
above two methods are presented in Figures 7.1
(based on deprivation counts) and 7.2 (based on
composite deprivation index). By deprivation
counts, more than half of the 64 districts have less
than three deprivations and 14 districts have four
or more deprivations (Figure 7.1). Using the CDI
method, where the number of deprivations have
been classified as quintiles, we noted that majority
of the districts, that is 42 out of 64 (or 66 per cent)
fall within the category of average or better than
the average (quintiles 3 and 2) and 15 districts (23
per cent) are the worse-off districts (quintiles 4
and 5) representing the most deprived categories
(Figure 7.2).
7.1.2 When it comes to the sub-districts or
upazilas, 270 (56 per cent) of the total 483 upazilas
fall in the average or better than average group
(quintiles three and two) while 140 upazilas (29
per cent) fall in the most deprived categories, that
is quintiles four and five.
Figure 7.1: Number of districts and upazilas by number of deprivations as per the selected eight
indicators, Bangladesh 2011
Figure 7.2: Number of districts and upazilas by quintile values of Composite Deprivation Index
based on the number of social deprivations, Bangladesh 2011
* Shows the areas with number of deprivation with ‘best’ to ‘worst’ categories representing the distribution of scores for
quintiles one to five.
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