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.
In the current study, more than one fourth participants
(26.2%) had 15-19 years of age, whereas 30.8%
and 42.9% had respectively 20-24 and 25-29 years of age
(not shown). Majority of the participants had education
(85.6%) which is almost similar to husband’s education
(86.6%). Majority of the participants (92.0%) were