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Child Equity Atlas
6.1.3 As in chapter two, it is also important to
commend the situation of child sex ratio in the
country compared to many Asian countries, where
the ratio is distorted in favour of boys because of
a preference for male child. The under-five sex
ratio in Dhaka was found to be in a normal range,
showing no signs of any biased selection at the
time of the birth of a child.
6.1.4 The proportion of population in child bearing
age in the DCC was 63 per cent against 53.4 per
cent in the country as a whole. Proportion of female
headed households in the DCC was 11.8 per cent,
lower than that of the country (15.6 per cent).
6.2 Literacy, School Attendance and
Educational Attainment
6.2.1 Data on a number of educational indicators
by wards of DCC are presented in Annex Table 6.2.
Youth and adult literacy rates in the DCC were 83.5
per cent and 80.8 per cent respectively (Tables 6.3
and 6.4). The rates vary by sex, with female literacy
lower (80.4 per cent for youth and 76.7 per cent
for adult) than literary among the males (86.0 per
cent for youth and 83.8 per cent for adult) in DCC.
The differences in female adult literacy levels were
substantial across the wards of DCC as shown in
Map 6.3. Overall school attendance in DCC at five
was 48.7 per cent which means that more than half
of the children of five years of age do not attend
school, although the rate was higher than that
of the country which is 21.6 per cent. However,
significant differences are observed between
different wards, ranging from a low of 24.4 per
cent in Ward No. 92 in Lalbagh thana to a high of
69 per cent in Ward No. 53 of Ramna thana, with
no significant difference between boys and girls in
this respect.
Table 6.3: Youth literacy rate (15-24 years):
Best and worst wards, Dhaka City Corporation,
Bangladesh 2011
Srl. Best wards Worst wards
Thana
Ward
No.
% Thana
Ward
No.
26
91
1. Shahbagh 57 96.0
Khilgaon,
Lalbagh
72.7
2. Lalbagh 62 93.1 Kotwali 73 73.1
3. Motijheel 33 92.8 Gulshan 19 74.4
4.
5.
Mohammadpur
44 92.6
Bangshal,
Chak Bazar
%
66 74.5
Sher-E-Bangla
40 91.7 Chak Bazar 65 74.6
Nagar, Tejgaon
Dhaka City Corporation: 83.5%
Table 6.4: Adult literacy rate (15 years and
above): Best and worst wards, Dhaka City
Corporation, Bangladesh 2011
Srl. Best wards Worst wards
Thana
Ward
No.
% Thana
Ward
No.
1. Lalbagh 91 92.9 Shahbagh 57 56.3
2. Lalbagh 92 90.9 Mohammadpur 44 57.7
3. Khilgaon 26 89.3 Motijheel 33 61.5
4. Shyampur 90 89.3 New Market 52 64.4
5. Lalbagh 60 89.2 Lalbagh 62 64.6
Dhaka City Corporation: 80.8%
%
Photo : Ibrahim aKhan Moni
Photo : Ibrahim aKhan Moni
Photo : Ibrahim aKhan Moni
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