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Table 1 Background characteristics of the participants

From: “We struggle with the earth everyday”: parents’ perspectives on the capabilities for healthy child growth in haor region of Bangladesh

Mothers

IDI

FGD

Fathers

IDI

FGD

 Age range

23–30 years

16–35 years

Age range

21–45 years

Religion

 Muslims

4

26

Muslims

3

23

 Hindus

 

7

Hindus

1

 

Occupation

Dry season

Wet season

Dry season

Wet season

 Household work

3

32

Rice Cultivation

2

 

18

 

 Others

1 (Stitching)

1 (grocery)

Small Business (selling vegetables, betel leaves and nuts, and cosmetics; fishing/fish selling)

2

4

5

9

Day labourer (masonry, pulling rickshaws, rowing boats)

   

8

jobless

   

6

Education

 No education

 

1

No education

1

5

 Only Signature

3

15

Only Signature

1

8

 Below Primary

1

3

Below Primary

1

5

 Primary education

 

9

Primary education

1

2

 Below SSC (secondary school certificate)

 

3

Below SSC (secondary school certificate)

 

3

 SSC

 

2