Background:
The current total fertility rate in Bangladesh is now 2.3 births per woman, which is still above the replacement level of 2.1.
Objective:
The main objective of this study was to identify potential factors associated with fertility transition in Bangladesh.
Methods:
This study applied several regression models to find the best-fitted model to determine factors associated with the number of children ever born in Bangladesh and utilize data from the 2019 Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.
Results:
Based on the principles of the AIC, BIC, and Vuong tests, the best-fit model was the Hurdle-Poisson regression model compared to other models. Findings based on the Hurdle Poisson regression result revealed that the number of children increases with the increase of women’s age, but the number of children declines if the education status of women as well as their delayed marriage increases. Women who had secondary or higher education were less likely to have children than illiterate women. Similarly, division, residential area, wealth index, women’s functional difficulties, prenatal care, and migration have significantly influenced the number of children ever born.
Conclusion:
Based on the findings, the study suggests that fertility can be decreased by improving female education, minimizing early marriage, and eliminating poverty for all ever-married women who were particularly live in rural areas of the Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in Bangladesh. Such steps would be the largest contribution to a future reduction in fertility rates in Bangladesh.
In today’s competitive business world, no business can survive without proper branding.
Branding is therefore important to every business regardless of the size, because it helps
differs from a business from its competitors. As a key component of branding, brand
communication determines whether a brand is successfully established and eventually turns
a profit. Attracted by its potential to drive sales opportunities and to enhance customer engagement, companies of Bangladesh are also coming forward to embrace the full prospects of social media. This paper attempted to measure the effectiveness of brand posts and how it influences customer engagement through social media in our country. This study is exploratory in nature. Here mainly quantitative analysis is done based primary data from two segments, customers and service providers. In this thesis paper, data are being collected by 30 questionnaire, on 200 samples ( 100 for customers and 100 for service providers). The findings of my study is that brand posts and customer brand engagement have a positive relationship .
This paper has focused on seasonal variations of price and trend of the price escalation of paddy in Bangladesh using monthly average wholesale price of Boro paddy over a period from 2001 to 2019. Secondary data were used in this study and collected from different secondary sources. The multiplicative model was exercised in this study; the least square method was applied to find out the long-term changes occurring in the price of paddy and the ratio to moving average method was used to measure seasonal fluctuations in price of paddy. It was evidently observed from the study that seasonal fluctuations in price of paddy prevail in Bangladesh as seasonal indices were deviated from hundred in different months. April to August, the price of paddy was lower compare to other months’ price because April and Mayare the harvesting period of Boro paddy and resulted in more supply to the market. From August, it was increasing gradually and reached to the highest position on March with 112.15. Long-term trend analysis showed that prices of paddy will increase Tk. 72.80 per quintal higher annually compare to the country’s average price.
SAARC J. Agri., 18(2): 219-226 (2020)
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