Methods
Participants
We carried out this study in 389 married women,
selected with a convenience sampling technique, from
both rural and urban area. The participants of this study
consisted of 57.7% of the total participants of a larger
survey, carried out among 674 married women aged 15-
49 years in order to investigate health care exclusion in
both urban and rural area. We excluded 42.3% participants
because they are the most fertility contributing
women in Bangladesh, whereas women aged >29 yeas
have much lower fertility rates [15] and because inclusion
of women aged >29 years could produce relatively
higher level of recall bias due to relative longer past
event.