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Bangladesh 1993-1994 Demographic and Health ... - Measure DHS

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Figure 2.2Distribution of De Facto HouseholdPopulation by Single Year of Age <strong>and</strong> Sex4PercentI2 I t III /IIIII *i IIIPPiI1 i| t, II I I It 1.A, ,, ,t. i~ fi t ,0i i , i i10 15 20 25 30 ~5 40 45 50 55 60 65 70+Single Year of AgeB<strong>DHS</strong> <strong>1993</strong>-94Digit preference is considerably more pronounced for men than for women. This is most probably due to thefact that many of the women were individually interviewed <strong>and</strong> their ages probed in detail, while many ofthe men's ages were provided by proxy.Table 2.2 compares the broad age structure of the population from the 1989 <strong>Bangladesh</strong> FertilitySurvey (BFS), the 1989 <strong>and</strong> 1991 Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys (CPSs), <strong>and</strong> the <strong>1993</strong>-94 B<strong>DHS</strong>. Therehas been a slight decline in the proportion of population less than 15 years of age.Table 2.2 Population by age from selected sourcesPercent distribution of the de facto population by age group, selected sources,<strong>Bangladesh</strong>. 1989-I9941989 1989 1991 <strong>1993</strong>-94Age group BFS CPS CPS B<strong>DHS</strong>

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