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Child Equity Atlas
Table 5.1: Proportion of households living
in ‘pucca’ houses: Best and worst districts,
Bangladesh 2011
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Best districts
Worst districts
District % District %
1. Dhaka 45.6 Kurigram 0.9
2. Chittagong 25.0 Netrakona, Sherpur 1.5
3. Chuadanga 22.1 Lalmonirhat 1.6
4. Sylhet 21.7 Bhola 1.7
Barguna, Gaibandha,
5. Narayanganj 20.7
Jamalpur, Panchagarh
Bangladesh: 11.3%
2.0
Table 5.2: Proportion of households living in
‘kutcha 21 ’ houses: Best and worst districts,
Bangladesh 2011
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Best districts
Worst districts
District % District %
1. Dhaka 17.8 Barguna 93.2
2. Gazipur 45.2 Kurigram 91.7
3. Narayanganj 45.7 Patuakhali 91.6
4. Meherpur 46.5
Bandarban ,
Sherpur
91.1
5. Sylhet 47.0 Khagrachhari 90.8
Bangladesh: 69.1%
5.2 Access to Sanitary Toilet
5.2.1 It is important to note that the definition
of a sanitary toilet in this Atlas, based on the
Census, refers to toilets that are with water seal
and those without water seal. The definition did
not consider if the toilets were shared or not with
other households or other details on the toilet
types as in the JMP protocol. Like the condition
of housing, household access to a sanitary toilet
has improved tremendously in the last 10 years
with the proportion of households having access
to sanitary toilet increasing from 38.9 per cent in
2001 to 63.6 per cent in 2011. However, disparities
in access between rural and urban areas and
among the administrative divisions are evident,
revealing the pockets of deprived populations
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‘Kutcha’ includes ‘jhupri’ structures as well which constitute
only 2.9 per cent of all structures for the country as a whole.
where poverty reduction programmes and
interventions should be directed. The proportion
of households without access to sanitary toilet is
significantly higher in rural areas (41.8 per cent)
than in the urban areas (18.3 per cent). Among
the administrative divisions, lack of access to a
sanitary toilet is less among the households in
Barisal (25.7 per cent), Dhaka (29.4 per cent) and
Chittagong (29.7 per cent) divisions and much
higher in Rajshahi (43.6 per cent), Sylhet (50.7 per
cent) and Rangpur (56.1 per cent) divisions (Figure
5.2). The pattern and trend of the distribution of
households without access to sanitary toilets
by districts are presented in Maps 5.2, and 5.3,
comparing 2001 with 2011, and by upazilas in
Map 5.4. At the extremes are the five best and
worst districts without access to sanitary toilets
(Table 5.3).
Figure 5.2: Proportion of households without
access to sanitary toilet by administrative
divisions and rural and urban areas,
Bangladesh 2011
% of households
58.8
60.0 Total Rural Urban
56.1 55. 7
50.7
47.0
43.6
37.4
39.5
41.8
40.0
33. 4
36.5
37.0 36.4
27.3 29.7 29.4
27.22
25.7
22.1
23.4
17.5
118.3
18.3
20.0
12.6
0.0
Barisal
Dhaka
Khulna hl
Table 5.3: Proportion of households without
access to sanitary toilet: Best and worst
districts, Bangladesh 2011
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Best districts
Rajshahi
Rangpur
Sylhet
Total
Worst districts
District % District %
1. Dhaka 6.5 Bandarban 73.4
2. Jhalokati 13.3 Thakurgaon 72.3
3. Gopalganj 14.6 Gaibandha 69.5
4. Barisal 17.5 Sunamganj 67.3
5. Shariatpur 18.0 Nilphamari 67.0
Bangladesh: 36.4%
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