Demographic and Socio-Economic Profile
Fieldwork for the 2024, The State of Bangladesh's Political Governance, Development, and Society: According to its Citizens– was conducted from February 10 to March 6, 2024. More than 6,700 men and women were polled across the country. Following data cleaning, a final sample of 6,510 respondents was achieved. Respondents are 50% male and 50% female, aged 18 years or older. Table 1.1 below shows the distribution of age across various categories.
More than half (64.7%) of respondents were surveyed from rural areas whereas the remaining 35.3% respondents were surveyed from urban areas.
Education levels varied across respondents. Just over a fifth (21.5%) have no formal education, with no significant difference among men and women. The largest proportion (66.7%) have education up to primary level, with a higher proportion of women (46.7%) compared to men (39.5%). The trend is reversed among the 29.0% of respondents with higher secondary school education with a higher proportion of men (32.5%) compared to women (25.5%). Only 5.0% possess a graduate-level and above education.
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